Cockacoeske

Deceased Person

1640 – 1686

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Who was Cockacoeske?

Cockacoeskie was a 17th-century leader of the Pamunkey Tribe of Native Americans in what is now Virginia in the United States. Over the thirty-year span of her reign, she worked within the English system, trying to recapture the former power of past paramount chiefs and maintain a peaceful unity among the several tribes under her control. She was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Virginia-Indian Treaty of 1677/1680

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Born
1640
Ethnicity
  • Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Died
1686

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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