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media type="youtube" key="OLkPCA6KFIY" height="344" width="425" **__Powhatan Indians__** By: Clair T. **-Introduction ** The Powhatan Indians lived in Jamestown, Virgina. They lived in houses called dwellings. For food, the men hunted and the women gardened. They had a chief named Wahunsonacock, who is more known by the name "Chief Powhatan." He had a daughter who is very famous. Her name is Matoaka, but is more commonly known as "Pocahontas." There is a lot to know about the Powhatan Indians. 
 * -Important People**  Chief Powhatan's (Wahunsonacock) daughter Pocahontas (Matoaka) helped maintain peace between the Native Americans and English colonists. After Chief Powhatan died, a new chief took over named, Opechancanough.

**​-Culture** The Powhatans had a lot of battles between the English and themselves. Even thought Pocahontas did help keep peace between them, a few years after she left battles did break out. For food the men would hunt. They would hunt animals like beavers, deer, rabbits, raccoons, wild turkeys, and opossums. They would also fish. As for the women, they gardened. The plants they planted were corn, beans, squish, gourds, and the passionflower.

After Opechanconough died, and the government forced the Powhatans to make an agreement over there land, there numbers dropped to about 1,800 people. By 1722 the Powhatans from the tribe of Chief Powhatan were reported extinct.
 * ​-Where They Are Today **

**-Dwellings ** Powhatan people lived in houses called dwellings. Each of the dwellings had six to twenty people in them. Most of them had a married couple and their children. Some of them had all brothers. Even men that were married to more then one wife lived with their wives.

​**The Powhatan Indians are a unique tribe. They are a big part of our history, and not only that, but an important part of our history also.**

**The following resources were used for this wiki:** http://www.baydreaming.com/powhatan.htm http://personal.kent.edu/~dfriend/powhatan.htm http://www.meadowthorpe.fcps.net/projects/native_americans/PowhatanIndians%20Yesterday%20and%20Today.htm http://www.youtube.com ____________________________________________________________________________ =Language Arts Map: = = = <span style="color: #ec3258; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105175697491984606671.00047a655f72231b19922&ll=32.550841,-37.265624&spn=39.649515,80.859375&t=h&output=embed" width="425" height="350" align="center"