The number changed over time, as more tribes were conquered and came under his control while others decided to leave the Powhatan group. In 1584 English explorers said that there were about 34 tribes, numbering around 10,000 people in 200 villages - but they were estimating, not counting.
We know that at various times the following were under his leadership:
Chickahominy, Susquehannock, Mannahoak, Chesapeake, Arrohattock, Mattapony, Monacan, Tuckwogh, Occaneechi, Pamunkey, Massawomek, Kuskarawaok, Manahoac, Rappahannock, Mangoags, Nanticoke, Powhatan, Appomattucks, Chawons, Ctroatoan, Atquanachuk, Youghtanund, Payankatank, Nantaughtacund, Onawmanient.
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There were historically many powerful confederacies formed by native American tribes. Examples are the Powhatan confederacy, the Blackfoot confederacy, the Iroquois confederacy and many more.
The Powhatan Confederacy was a coalition of Native American tribes from the territory of Virginia. They were also known as the Virginia Algonquians.
Wahunsunacock of the Pothatan Confederacy.
Powhatan, who was the chief of the Powhatan Indians, was the leader of the Powhatan Confederacy of Virginia, which once included 30 different tribes totaling about 9,000 persons. The confederacy occupied much of what became the colony and state of Virginia.
started with 6 but by 1607 30
Fourteen tribes made up the Creek Confederacy or nation
Squanto is the name of a Native American. The Powhatan is the name of a Virginia Indian tribe. It is also the name of a powerful confederacy of tribes which they dominated. The confederacy is estimated to have been about 14,000-21,000 people in eastern Virginia, when the English settled Jamestown in 1607. They were also known as Virginia Algonquians, as they spoke an eastern-Algonquian language known as Powhatan.
The Powhatan Confederacy had an extensive trade network with other Indian tribes before Jamestown was settled. When the Jamestown settlers arrived, they traded with the colonists. The settlers traded their metal tools for food and furs.
The answer is: Powhatan
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Algonquian is not a tribe, it's a large grouping of tribes that speak Algonquian languages. Tribes in the Powhatan confederacy, which Pocahontas was part of, spoke an Algonquian dialect. That language is now extinct, though there are efforts to reconstruct it, which means they have an approximation of it based on historical word lists and still-existing Algonquian dialects.