Powhatan

Powhatan (c. 1550–1618), personal name Wahunsonacock, chief of the Powhatans and head of the Powhatan Confederacy of tribes, which he enlarged until it covered most of the Virginia tidewater region and part of Maryland. He befriended the Jamestown settlers under their leader John Smith (1608). Later hostilities were settled when his daughter Pocahontas married John Rolfe (1614).