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PowhatanPowhatan people ( ) were an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. They were the leading member of the Powhatan Confederacy in Tsenacommacah, whose historic territories are in central Tidewater Virginia along the James River. The Powhatan people spoke the Powhatan language which is a member of the Algonquian language family. The Powhatan tribe was governed by its own Weroance while also being led by the leader of the Confederacy, called the Mamantowick.
Powhatan languagePowhatan or Virginia Algonquian is an Eastern Algonquian language part of the Algonquian language family. It was formerly spoken by the Powhatan people of tidewater Virginia. The sole documentary evidence for this language is two short wordlists recorded around the time of first European contact. William Strachey recorded about 500 words and Captain John Smith recorded only about 50 words.
North AmericaNorth America is a continent in the Northern and Western hemispheres. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. North America covers an area of around 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), representing approximately 16.5% of Earth's land area and 4.8% of its total surface area.
Algonquian languagesThe Algonquian languages ( ; also Algonkian) are a branch of the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the Indigenous Ojibwe language (Chippewa), which is a senior member of the Algonquian language family. The term Algonquin has been suggested to derive from the Wolastoqey word elakómkwik (pronounced), meaning "they are our relatives/allies".
HatchetA hatchet (from the Old Frenchhachete, a diminutive form of hache, 'axe' of Germanic origin) is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade on one side used to cut and split wood, and a hammerhead on the other side. Hatchets may also be used for hewing when making flattened surfaces on logs; when the hatchet head is optimized for this purpose it is called a hewing hatchet.
AnglicisationAnglicisation, or anglicization, is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into or influenced by the culture of England. It can be sociocultural, in which a non-English place adopts the English language or culture; institutional, in which institutions are influenced by those of England or the United Kingdom; or linguistic, in which a non-English term or name is altered due to the cultural influence of the English language.Abenaki languageAbenaki (Eastern: Alənαpαtəwéwαkan, Western: Alnôbaôdwawôgan) is an endangered Eastern Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern states of New England. The language has Eastern and Western forms which differ in vocabulary and phonology and are sometimes considered distinct languages.
AxeAn axe (; sometimes spelled ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for thousands of years to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, and as a weapon. The axe has many forms and specialised uses but generally consists of a head with a sharpened blade (also called a "bit") attached to a handle (also called "haft" or "helve"). Before the modern axe, the stone-agehand axe without a handle was used from 1.5 million years BP.
Delaware languagesThe Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages (Delaware: Lënapei èlixsuwakàn), are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family.
Proto-Algonquian languageProto-Algonquian (commonly abbreviated PA) is the proto-language from which the various Algonquian languages are descended. It is generally estimated to have been spoken around 2,500 to 3,000 years ago, but there is less agreement on where it was spoken.
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy languageMaliseet-Passamaquoddy ( ; skicinuwatuwewakon or skicinuwi-latuwewakon) or Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey is an endangered Algonquian language spoken by the Wolastoqey and Passamaquoddy peoples along both sides of the border between Maine in the United States and New Brunswick, Canada.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.