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Okeus (also known as Okee) was a wrathful god in the religion of the Powhatan and Monocan tribes of Virginia, the vengeful counterpart of the god Ahone, whom the Powhatan associated with war. Okeus was mistakenly labelled as the devil by European colonists and missionaries who misinterpreted Powhatan deities, spiritual practices, and depictions ...
Various tribes each held some individual powers locally, and each had a chief known as a weroance (male) or, more rarely, a weroansqua (female), meaning "commander". [13]As early as the era of John Smith, the individual tribes of this grouping were recognized by English colonists as falling under the greater authority of the centralized power led by the chiefdom of Powhatan (c. 1545 – c ...
Ahone (also known as Rawottonemd) was the chief god and creator in the religion of the Native American Powhatan tribe and related Algonquians in the Virginia Tidewater area. . According to tribal legend, Ahone created the world as a flat disk with the Powhatan tribe at its ce
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 January 2025. Leader of the Powhatan Confederacy (c. 1547–c. 1618) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Powhatan" Native American leader ...
When the Second Anglo-Powhatan War of 1644–1645 broke out, the colonists seem to have viewed the Rappahannock as independent and outside the conflict, and did not attack the people. In the 1650s, when colonists began settling along the river, the Rappahannock withdrew from the southern bank; their weroance Accopatough deeded the land east of ...
Powhatan, detail of map published by John Smith (1612). Witchcraft was a phenomenon that was of genuine concern for colonial Virginians. The English settlers brought several superstitions with them to the New World, including their beliefs in the devil’s power, demons, and witches. [5]
Copper was the most important metal in among Powhatan tribes, where it was a mark in life and death of the social hierarchy. The elite were buried with copper items to secure them passage in the spiritual world. [9] English copper trade freed Chief Powhatan from relations with hostile Monacan and other tribes to the west. Similarly, the English ...
The Arrohattoc, also occasionally spelled Arrohateck, was a Native American tribe from Henrico County, Virginia in the United States.. In the early 18th century, the tribe was led by their chief Ashuaquid and was part of the Powhatan Confederacy. [1]