- the
following spellings are used in
different texts:
weeroance weroance werowance werowans wyroance wyrounce wyrounnces A
weroansqua is a
female ruler....
- Storyteller,
Werowance, and the
Powhatan tribe tell the
story of
Pocahontas as they
remember it. When
Pocahontas is summoned,
Werowance takes on the role...
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description (meaning chief?): weroance, weeroance, wyrounce, wyrounnces,
werowance, wyroance,
werowans The name: Wahunsuna****, Wahunsenasawk, Wahunsenacawh...
- of many
related families organized in
tribes led by a
chief (weroance/
werowance or
weroansqua if female). They paid
tribute to the
paramount chief (mamanatowick)...
-
December 2021.[citation needed] As of 2016[update],
Matetsky was the "
werowance" (or president) of the
Wolfe Pack, an
organization of fans of Rex Stout's...
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north bank of the
Pamunkey River. Each
tribe had its own name and
chief (
werowance/weroance if male or
weroansqua if female), and
Tsenacommacah as a whole...
-
without hereditary rulers paid
tribute to a
nearby village. Its chief, or
werowance,
appointed a "lesser king" to each
dependent settlement.
Changes in social...
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appointed executor. In 1660
several settlers were
murdered by Indians. The
werowance of the
Patowomack tribe, Wahananoche,
turned over the
culprit to Fowke...
- from what is now Virginia. He
served as the
chief of
Pamunkey and as
werowance of the
Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom for the term
lasting from
about 1649...
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predominantly in ****berland, Sampson, and
Harnett counties. The chiefs,
called werowances ("he who is rich"), each
controlled up to 18 towns. The
greatest were...
