Powhatan

Timeline

1. c. 1570–1606Werowocomoco · VirginiaThrough marriage alliances, tribute, and military intimidation he integrated tribes along the Chesapeake Bay, establishing a regional power network based on maize cultivation and fishing and hunting, and controlling vast territories in eastern Virginia.
2. 1607–1614James River and Chesapeake Bay · VirginiaAfter Jamestown was founded he dealt with the colonists: sometimes supplying food, sometimes launching attacks; he besieged the colony during the famine of 1609–1610, and later accepted negotiations and marriage arrangements in exchange for peace.
3. 1614–1618Powhatan territory · VirginiaAfter 1614 he gradually transferred real power to his brother Opechancanough, and died in 1618; after his death relations between the Powhatan and the colonists rapidly deteriorated, and large-scale conflict broke out in 1622.