POWHATAN

Powhatan, "At the Falls" were about thirty bands of eastern Algonquin living in over two hundred villages in the region that became Virginia. They banded together into the Powhatan Confederacy during the 1500s and 1600s. Powhatan is also the name given to a powerful chief, who was the father of Pocahontis. Today some of their descendants on the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Reservations in Virginia; others now called the Rapahannock, Potomac, Nansemond, and Chickahominy, love throughout the rest.