-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
explorer John
Smith met with a
group of
about 60 "gyant-like"
warriors and "
weroances" at the
mouth of the
Susquehanna River, two days
journey downriver from...
- 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...
-
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...
- "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...
