Tsenacommacah — some thirty tributary tribes under Wahunsenacawh (Powhatan) when Jamestown was planted in their midst.
Broken by three Anglo-Powhatan wars; the 1646 treaty made the tribes tributaries, and after 1677 only small reservation remnants (Pamunkey, Mattaponi) persisted.
The atlas holds 6 border frames for Powhatan Confederacy — the shape you scrub through changes in 800 · 1608 · 1634 · 1646 · 1677 · 1801.
The standard long-durée ethnohistory tracing the Powhatan from contact through the modern reservation tribes, by the field's leading scholar.
The definitive reconstruction of Powhatan society, politics, and the structure of the paramount chiefdom on the eve of English contact.
A vivid narrative of the Jamestown encounter that foregrounds Wahunsenacawh's chiefdom and its diplomacy and wars with the English.
Uses archaeology to map how Tsenacommacah was built and territorially organized, ideal for assessing the chiefdom's geographic extent.
Biographical history of the three central Powhatan leaders that closely tracks the chiefdom's rise and the three Anglo-Powhatan wars.