Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma Terms

A private company (later a public joint-stock venture) chartered in 1606 under King James I of England and assigned to settle colonies in the land now known as Virginia and to bring the “salvages in… read analysis of The Virginia Company

The name given by the Powhatan people to their homeland, the region now known as the Virginia Tidewater. read analysis of Tsenacomoco

Also occasionally spelled “Algonquin,” a linguistic group spoken by the natives of Tsenacomoco. The Algonkian tribes are the group of linguistically-linked native inhabitants of the Tsenacomoco—the area now known as the Virginia Tidewater… read analysis of Algonkian

The Algonkian word for chief. read analysis of Werowance

Literally “paramount chief”—the title Powhatan gave himself after bringing over thirty Algonkian tribes under his command. read analysis of Mamanitowik

The first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Established in Virginia in May of 1607, Jamestown nearly failed countless times in the first half of the 17th century due to disease, starvation, and repeated, intense… read analysis of Jamestown