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Cockacoeske (pronounced Coke a cow ski) (also spelled Cockacoeskie) (c. 1640 – c. 1686) was a 17th-century leader of the Pamunkey tribe in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia. During her thirty-year reign, she worked with the English colony of Virginia , trying to recapture the former power of past paramount chiefs and maintain ...
Cockacoeske, also known as Cockacoeweske, was a Pamunkey chief, and a descendant of Opechancanough, brother of the paramount chief Powhatan. After the death of her husband, Totopotomoy, chief of the Pamunkey from about 1649 until 1656, Cockacoeske became queen of the Pamunkey.
Cockacoeske appeared before the General Assembly in the early summer of 1676. She wore a crown made of wampum and a floor-length deerskin coat, clothing that projected her status to anyone watching. She was accompanied by her son John and an interpreter. She initially refused to sit down and speak, to show her displeasure. The all-male assembly ...
Cockacoeske (auch Cockacoeskie oder Cockacoeweske genannt) kam zwischen 1634 und 1640 in Pamunkey Neck zwischen den Flüssen Pamunkey River und Mattaponi River zur Welt. Sie stammte aus einer angesehenen Familie und war wie ihre berühmte Cousine Pocahontas (1595–1617) eine Indianer-Prinzessin. Ihr Vater hieß Nectowance (um 1600–1649) und ...
Cockacoeske (also known as Cockacoeweske) was a descendant of Opechancanough, brother of the paramount chief Powhatan. She became leader of the Pamunkey after the death of her husband in 1656. During the summer of 1676 Cockacoeske appeared before a committee of burgesses and Council members at Jamestown and after reminding them that her tribe ...
During the course of the raid, they captured 45 Natives for enslavement and killed at least eight, and Cockacoeske went into hiding in the woods for 14 days. She later said she survived only by eating a raw turtle leg that a young boy found for her. During that time, the rebels captured an older Pamunkey woman they hoped would lead ...
Cockacoeske exerted the most lasting impact on Virginia’s future. The Queen of Pamunkey managed to survive the rebellion and signed the 1677 Treaty of Middle Plantation, which effectively ended hostili-ties between the Virginians and area Indian groups. That Cockacoeske achieved this is no accident of fate. Rather, she represents one in a long
