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Wingino


Title King Wingino
Origtitle Indian in Body Paint
Caption King Wingino, a great werowance of the Roanoke tribe.
Source virtualjamestown.org
Date 1585
URL http://www.virtualjamestown.org/images/white_debry_html/white47.html
Creator John White
Type Watercolor
Copyright British Museum
Origin Internet
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Wingino

Additional Notes

Wingina (Pemisapan) (d. 1 June 1586): ; Wingina, who changed his name to Pemisapan soon after Raleigh’s 1585 colony settled in Roanoke, was the king of the Algonquian Indians on Roanoke Island and the nearby coast during the mid-1580s at the time of Raleigh’s first colony under Ralph Lane. In the early stages, relations between the colony and Pemisapan’s tribe were good, and the colonists traded with Pemisapan’s brother Granganimeo. As the colonists grew more aggressive and oppressive, Pemisapan began to warn other tribes about the English, pulled his people away from Roanoke Island, and plotted to bring together the various coastal tribes and attack the colony. However, Lane discovered the plot through a hostage (Skiko, the son of Menatonon, the king of the neighboring Chowanocs), and soon killed had Pemisapan through some rather villainous deception, simultaneously freeing the colony from immediate danger and earning the enmity of all of his followers, perhaps guaranteeing continued conflict and danger in future years.;
Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, ed. William S. Powell. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1991), s.v. “Pemisapan (Wingina).”