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The Powhatan, also known as Virginia Algonquians, are a Native American people in Eastern Virginia. It is estimated that there were approximately 18,000 Powhatan people in the region when the English settled Jamestowne in 1607. One member of this community was Mataoka (Pocahontas, later Lady Rebecca Rolfe), a daughter of the paramount chief Wahunsunacawh (Powhatan).

Powhatan created a powerful organization by affiliating 30 tributary peoples, whose territory was much of eastern Virginia. This territory was home to a large extended family of first people who had their lives forever changed by the arrival of the English.