What indan tribe was Pocahontas a princess of?
She was a member of the Mattaponi tribe being that her mother
was a member of that tribe. They shared a neck of land between the
modern day Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers in Virginia with the
Pamunkey tribe. They were then practically the same tribe.
Both of these tribes and 30 others were at one time part of the
Powhatan Paramountcy. Powhatan was the mamanatowick or overlord of
the other chief's.
Source:
The true story of Pocahontas: the other side of history
By Linwood Custalow, Angela L. Daniel
http://books.google.com/books?id=b2A20GQSn-AC&dq
A Guide to Writing about Virginia Indians and Virginia Indian
History
Approved by the Virginia Council on Indians - September 19,
2006
Last Updated June 2010
