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Powhatan, n. and a.|ˈpaʊətæn|
[Native name.]
A. n. An Algonquian people of eastern Virginia; a member of this people; their language (now extinct).
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of this people. Hence Powhaˈtanic a.
1608J. Smith True Relation of Occurrences in Virginia sig. D, With a lowd oration he proclaimed me A werowanes of Powhaton, and that all his subjects should so esteeme vs, and no man account vs strangers nor Paspaheghans, but Powhatans. 1612W. Strachey Trav. Virginia (1953) i. i. 35 There was ever Enmity..between the High-and Low Country, going by the names of Monacans, and Powhatans. 1785T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xi. 167 We are told that the Powhatans, Mannahoacs, and Monacans spoke languages so radically different, that interpreters were necessary when they transacted business. Ibid. 168 The territories of the Powhatan confederacy, south of the Patowmac comprehended about 8000 square miles, 30 tribes, and 2400 warriors. 1860H. R. Schoolcraft Hist. & Stat. Information Indian Tribes V. i. 35 Their language was so diverse from the Powhatanic dialects, which were of the Algonquin group, that not a word could be understood without interpreters. Ibid. 36 The older ones among them, preserve their language in a small degree, which are the last vestiges on earth, so far as we know, of the Powhatan language. Ibid. 37 All the sympathies of Virginians were with the Powhatanic tribes. 1907Amer. Anthropologist IX. 135 When the English landed at Jamestown in 1607, the Powhatan confederacy was a thing of recent origin. 1912T. Michelson in 28th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1906–7 (map legend) Languages the exact position of which is uncertain... Powhatan, Weapemeoc, Secotan, etc. 1915J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers xxiv. 334 A voice..spoke the Powhatan language, which I knew. Ibid. xxvi. 355, I found some Indians..and told one who spoke Powhatan the issue of the fight. 1953Wright & Freund Strachey's Trav. Virginia i. 35 The Powhatans were an Algonquian tribe and their name, which first came from the name of a town near the present Richmond, was later applied to the chief Wahunsonacock and his confederacy. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 170/1 In the 1970s an estimated 3,000 Powhatan were reported, largely scattered along the Virginia coast. 1977Language LIII. 259/2 Siebert places these data in the framework of Eastern Algonquian, as reconstructed by Bloomfield, and provides an English-Powhatan lexicon of 263 words. |