Definitions
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- noun Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
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Examples
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Susquehannocks, and as brave as the children of Wahunsonacock.
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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Wahunsonacock, who was chief of all the Powhatans, sits now within his wigwam, sharpening flints for his arrows, making his tomahawk bright and keen, thinking of a day three suns hence, when the tribes will shake off forever the hand upon their shoulder, -- the hand so heavy and white that strives always to bend them to the earth and keep them there. '
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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Nantauquas, the son of Wahunsonacock, a war chief of the Powhatans.
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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