HONORING NATIVE CONGRESSWOMEN

THE POWHATAN MUSEUM 

(powhatanmuseum.com) 

©2018 Michael Auld

Above: Seal of the Powhatan Museum with Wahunsenachaw's two totems with a man flanked by a deer and mountain lion.

OUR *ATTAN AKAMIK TRADITION WAS TO WELCOME NATIVE LEADERS TO OUR POWHATAN TERRITORY

TRADITIONAL HOSTESS #2: Cockacoeske,
Queen of Pamunkey (his relative) who signed 
the Treaty of Middle Plantacion in 1677. 
The treaty ceased all hostilities between Native
Americans and the English who were
succeeded by the Americans.

TRADITIONAL HOST #1: Wahunsenachaw
(Powhatan II) his father's successor who 
expanded the Confederation of Algonquian-
Speakers from North Carolina to 
Maryland and Washington, DC.
He laid the foundation for the founding
of the United States of America.

THE POWHATAN MUSEUM
PROUDLY HONORS AND WELCOMES OUR TWO NATIVE AMERICAN CONGRESSWOMEN TO CAPITOL
HILL...

...During this auspicious National Native American Month. May your stay in our historic *Attan Akamik (Powhatan Confederacy Territory, a.k.a. “Washington, DC”) where Powhatan II presided over the earliest-known meetings on Capitol Hill that the Powhatan called a “caucus”. May your future caucuses be as successful as his.

*Attan Akamik = “Our Fertile Country”.  

Congresswoman Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk Nation)

Congresswoman Debra A. Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) 

Both appropriately won seats in Congress on November 6, 2018 during the month that honors Native American cultures and peoples.