According to Helen Rountree's John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages 1607-1690, pages 144-145, circa 1607 the coastal plain in the James River drainage was occupied by eleven Algonquian-speaking groups, with the piedmont being held by the Siouan Monacans. Of these eleven tribes, all but two belonged to the paramount chiefdom of the King Powhatan, who took his name from his hometown; modern scholars bestow it upon his subjects language and political organization...
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