The
huskanaw was a rite of passage by which Virginia Indian boys became men. While such rituals were common among American Indian societies, the
huskanaw was conducted by, among others, the Algonquian-speaking Powhatan Indians of Tsenacomoco, an alliance of twenty-eight to thirty-two petty tribes and chiefdoms centered around the James, Mattaponi, and Pamunkey rivers. Aligning it with various other religious rituals, they referred to the
huskanaw as a sacrifice and told the Jamestown colonists that if they did not perform it their powerful god Okee would be angered and disrupt their hunting or cause natural disasters. Although the English colonists at first took this ceremony to be a literal sacrifice of boys, they quickly learned that the term was metaphorical. The word
Cooking in Early Virginia Indian Society – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Fishing and Shellfishing by Early Virginia Indians – Encyclopedia Virginia
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