Also on this date: In 1614, Pocahontas, the daughter of Tsenacommacah chief Powhatan, married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony. In 1764, the British Parliament passed the ...

The Tsenacommacah Eastern Indian Marketplace will be open Saturday and Sunday at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. One festival highlight is the screening of “Bring Them Home ...

And mark your calendars for the Native American Family Day PowWow on Nov. 23 at the VMFA, and the Tsenacommacah Eastern Indian Marketplace on November 23 & 24 at the Virginia Museum of History and ...

Zimbabweans are the type of people who would laugh at you if they saw a top-end safe in your home housing just $7.53. If you can’t handle ridicule, don’t try to go to a bank to deposit $4. We ...

The fort at Jamestown was in the heart of Tsenacommacah — the Powhatan name for the coastal plain, meaning “densely inhabited land.” Through decades of intercultural ebb and flow, the scale tilted in ...

For many, this CD is a must-listen. More solemn than his others, this CD, which includes the Powhatan Suite, speaks of Stephen's deep respect for the natives of this country. About the suite, he ...

TSENACOMMACAH is a light box installation created by Erick Krigsvold, Rebecca Hill, Ethan Brown, and Yvonne Goad, members of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia, according to the Chrysler Museum.

Ivan IV Vasilyevich, was the first of two children of Basil III and Elena Glinskaya. Ivan came into the world on August 25, 1530. Nearly a year after this Ivan's father died when he was only three.

Important to the early settlers were the Indigenous people who lived in Tsenacommacah, a district of Chiskiak in the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom. The paramount chief, Powhatan, had to cope with ...