Kecoughtan

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Kecoughtan were an Algonquian-speaking Indigenous people who inhabited a village and surrounding area in what is now southeastern Virginia, near the mouth of the James River, prior to and during early English colonization.

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instanceOf Algonquian-speaking people
Indigenous people
affectedBy Anglo–Powhatan Wars NERFINISHED
English colonization of Virginia
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culture Woodland period culture
displacement loss of traditional lands
economy gathering wild plants and shellfish
hunting and fishing
maize agriculture
encountered English colonists at Jamestown
ethnicGroup Powhatan Confederacy NERFINISHED
firstContactWith English colonists in 1607
governedBy werowance (local chief)
housing wood-and-bark houses (yehakins)
inhabitedPlace Kecoughtan village NERFINISHED
surrounding area of present-day Hampton, Virginia
language Eastern Algonquian language NERFINISHED
locatedIn Tidewater Virginia NERFINISHED
coastal plain of Virginia
southeastern Virginia NERFINISHED
locatedNear Chesapeake Bay NERFINISHED
mouth of the James River
locatedOn James River NERFINISHED
materialCulture dugout canoes
shell and stone tools
modernLocationCorrespondsTo Fort Monroe area NERFINISHED
Phoebus area of Hampton, Virginia NERFINISHED
nameUsedFor Kecoughtan High School NERFINISHED
Kecoughtan Road in Hampton, Virginia NERFINISHED
neighbors Chesapeake people NERFINISHED
Paspahegh NERFINISHED
other Powhatan-affiliated groups
overlord Powhatan (Wahunsenacawh) NERFINISHED
partOf Powhatan paramount chiefdom NERFINISHED
regionType coastal riverine community
religion Powhatan spiritual beliefs
subsistence mixed agriculture and foraging
successorSettlement Elizabeth City NERFINISHED
English settlement of Kecoughtan NERFINISHED
Hampton, Virginia NERFINISHED
timePeriod early 17th century
pre-contact North America

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Tsenacommacah associatedPeople Kecoughtan