Chief Powhatan

Chief Powhatan (c. June 17, 1545 – c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh or (in seventeenth century English spelling) Wahunsunacock, was the leader of the Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten), a powerful tribe of Virginia Indians[1], as well as an associated confederacy of numerous tribes speaking Algonquian languages, known as the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom. He lived in Tenakomakah— which is now Tidewater Virginia—at the time of the first English-Native encounters. The Powhatan was the father of Pocahontas and other children. In the 1995 film, he was voiced by Russell Means and songs by Jim Cummings and animated by Ruben A. Aquino. He returns in the 1998 sequel.