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- Weroance[pronunciation?] is an Algonquian word meaning leader or commander among the Powhatan confederacy of the Virginia coast and Chesapeake Bay region...
- Pamunkey weroance, Totopotomoi, received 5,000 acres (20 km2) for his tribe along both sides of the upper Pamunkey River, and the Kiskiack weroance, Ossakican...
- Captain Ralph Hamor, but she was not in line to inherit a position as a weroance, sub-chief, or mamanatowick (paramount chief). Instead, Powhatan's brothers...
- Wahunsenacawh The Powhatan. Each of the tribes within the confederacy was led by a weroance (leader, commander), all of whom paid tribute to the Powhatan. After Wahunsenacawh...
- audience with the newcomers. The weroance and explorers met on May 4. George Percy wrote a vivid description of the weroance, whose body was painted crimson...
- Powhaten, Pohetan, Powhattan, Poughwaton The description (meaning chief?): weroance, weeroance, wyrounce, wyrounnces, werowance, wyroance, werowans The name:...
- Portrait of a weroance, who may have been Wingina...
- not have meanly exposed him as a show to my people." He was succeeded as Weroance first by Nectowance, then by Totopotomoi, then by ****acoeske, Totopotomoi's...
- "King of the Indians." After his death he was succeeded by Totopotomoi as Weroance of the Pamunkey. Necotowance was, however, the last Paramount Chief of...
- their head weroance (tribal chief). By spring 1609, the local Paspahegh tribe had resumed raiding the fort at Jamestown. However, their weroance Wowinchopunk...