Tsenacommacah

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Indigenous territory Powhatan homeland historic region

Tsenacommacah was the expansive homeland of the Powhatan Confederacy in what is now coastal Virginia, encompassing numerous Algonquian-speaking tribes before and during early English colonization.

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Label Occurrences
Tsenacommacah canonical 10

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous territory ⓘ
Powhatan homeland ⓘ
historic region ⓘ
associatedPeople Algonquian-speaking tribes ⓘ
Appomattoc ⓘ
Chickahominy River ⓘ
surface form: Chickahominy

Kecoughtan ⓘ
Mattaponi River ⓘ
surface form: Mattaponi

Nansemond ⓘ
Pamunkey ⓘ
Powhatan peoples ⓘ
surface form: Powhatan people

Rappahannock tribe ⓘ
surface form: Rappahannock (tribe)
borders Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
Chesapeake Bay ⓘ
colonialConflictWith Colony and Dominion of Virginia ⓘ
surface form: English colony of Virginia

Virginia Company of London ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands ⓘ
economyBasedOn gathering wild plants ⓘ
hunting and fishing ⓘ
maize agriculture ⓘ
encounteredBy English colonists ⓘ
locatedIn Tidewater region ⓘ
surface form: Tidewater region of Virginia

coastal Virginia ⓘ
present-day Virginia ⓘ
modernRecognition concept used in Powhatan cultural revitalization ⓘ
nameMeaning often glossed as “densely inhabited land” or “our land” in Virginia Algonquian scholarship ⓘ
notableEvent establishment of Jamestown in 1607 ⓘ
partOf Powhatan Chiefdom ⓘ
surface form: Powhatan paramount chiefdom
politicalCenter Werowocomoco ⓘ
primaryInhabitants Powhatan peoples ⓘ
surface form: Powhatan Confederacy
primaryLanguage Powhatan language ⓘ
surface form: Virginia Algonquian
primaryLanguageFamily Algonquian languages ⓘ
ruledBy Powhatan peoples ⓘ
surface form: Powhatan Confederacy

Wahunsenacawh ⓘ
surface form: Wahunsenacawh (Chief Powhatan)
timePeriod early 17th century ⓘ
pre-Columbian era ⓘ
traversedBy James River ⓘ
Potomac River ⓘ
Rappahannock River ⓘ
York River ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pocahontas → birthPlace → Tsenacommacah ⓘ
First Anglo-Powhatan War → location → Tsenacommacah ⓘ
Amonute → countryOfCitizenship → Tsenacommacah ⓘ
Amonute → placeOfBirth → Tsenacommacah ⓘ
Matoaka → placeOfBirth → Tsenacommacah ⓘ
Wahunsenacawh → residence → Tsenacommacah ⓘ
Wahunsenacawh → territory → Tsenacommacah ⓘ
Chief Powhatan → residence → Tsenacommacah ⓘ
Arrohateck → locatedIn → Tsenacommacah ⓘ
Rebecca Rolfe → placeOfOrigin → Tsenacommacah ⓘ