Literally “paramount chief”—the title Powhatan gave himself after bringing over thirty Algonkian tribes under his command.
Mamanitowik Quotes in Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
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Chapter 3
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It must be asked if anything remotely resembling what John Smith described could have occurred that December day in 1607. Unfortunately, the issue was thoroughly clouded by academics before it was eventually clarified by them. In the nineteenth century it became fashionable, amidst a certain circle of dignified white gentlemen scholars […] to denounce Smith as a braggart and a fraud. This caused those who loved him and his legend […] to rally to his cause and insist on his absolute veracity in every particular.
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Mamanitowik Term Timeline in Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
The timeline below shows where the term Mamanitowik appears in Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1: Amonute’s People
...They are headed toward Werowocomoco, the main settlement of Powhatan, their tribe’s paramount chief (or mamanitowik). Strangers have arrived in the bay on three great ships, and they appear to be...
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...her ordinary routine. Pocahontas’s father, Powhatan, born Wahunsenacaw, had made himself the paramount chief or mamanitowik of about 30 tribes, or 20,000 people. He did so over the course of many...
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Chapter 5: Kidnapped
...bounds of the fort. De La Warr attempts to extort land and friendship from the mamanitowik, but Powhatan’s position remains immovable: he wants the colonists gone and warns them that if...
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Chapter 9: 1622, and Queen Cockacoeske
...of land to the English. After his death, the tribes, no longer united under a mamanitowik, struggle to survive.
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