The girl and woman commonly known as Pocahontas lived in a matrilineal Tsenacommacah society, meaning that kinship, social status, power and inheritance traced through the female ...

At the time, the Powhatan confederacy consisted of around 30 Tidewater-area tribes led by Chief Wahunsonacock, known as Chief Powhatan to the English. Smith's companions were killed, but he was spared ...

S. Waite Rawls III, executive director and CEO of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, will speak to the Powhatan Civil War Round Table at its August 20 meeting. After spending 30 years as an ...