who was powhatan in jamestown
Powhatan, also called Wahunsenacah or Wahunsenacawh (died April 1618, Virginia [U.S.]), North American Indian leader, father of Pocahontas. He presided over the Powhatan empire at the time the English established the Jamestown Colony (1607). Powhatan had inherited rulership of an empire of six tribes from his father.