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newcomers (English settlers).
Weroances and
Priest were the only ones
allowed to
enter into
religious temples. A
weroance did not go to meet any visitor...
- to see a
weroance. The
weroance,
their wives, and
councilors often dressed in the
finest jewels, and
tanned deer skin.
Several of the
weroances' personal...
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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...
-
Portrait of a
weroance, who may have been Wingina...
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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...
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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...
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Patawomeck tradition,
Pocahontas was
previously married to a
Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was
murdered by
Englishmen when
Samuel Argall abducted her...
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prisoner yet you must make him your tributary, and all the
other his
weroances [subordinate chiefs]
about him
first to
acknowledge no
other Lord but...
- Powhaten, Pohetan, Powhattan,
Poughwaton The
description (meaning chief?):
weroance, weeroance, wyrounce, wyrounnces, werowance, wyroance,
werowans The name:...
- the
Algonquian nations of present-day New
England in the
United States Weroance Afro-Bolivian king Ishe or She for male
chiefs and
Shekadzi for a woman...
