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weeroance weroance werowance werowans wyroance wyrounce wyrounnces A
weroansqua is a
female ruler.
Spellings of this word also vary.
Paramount chiefs...
- 1686; died
either c. 1708 or c. 1723 as
Queen Ann (Pamunkey chief) ),
Weroansqua (chief) of the
Pamunkey tribe Elizabeth the ****an (1239/1240–1290), queen...
- locally, and each had a
chief known as a
weroance (male) or, more rarely, a
weroansqua (female),
meaning "commander". As
early as the era of John Smith, the...
- Matoks,
which was
reputedly her
girlhood home, and the
palace town of the
weroansqua Oppussoquionuske. In 2016 it was
listed as No. 42 in CNN Money's Top 50...
- Each
tribe had its own name and
chief (werowance/weroance if male or
weroansqua if female), and
Tsenacommacah as a
whole was
ruled by a
paramount chief...
-
Ohalasc (c. 1570s – c. 1620s) was a
Native American woman who
served as
Weroansqua (female chief) of the
Quiyoughcohannock tribe of the
Powhatan Confederacy...
- to have been the name of the
niece of ****acoeske who
succeeded her as
Weroansqua or
chief of the
Pamunkey tribe, a
Native American tribe of Virginia, in...
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village was
surrounded by cornfields,
which the
Indians cultivated. A
weroansqua (female chieftain), Oppussoquionuske, led the village.
Despite welcoming...
- (birthdate
unknown – 1610) was a
Weroansqua of an
Appomattoc town near the
mouth of the
Appomattox River.
Weroansqua (or Weroance) is an
Algonquian word...
- the
Powhatan confederacy. Totopotomoi's wife, ****acoeske, who
became Weroansqua after Totopotomoi's death,
briefly reunited some of the tribes. In February...
