Cockacoeske was a 17th-century leader, titled weroansqua, of the Pamunkey in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia and asserted herself as Mamanatowick of the Confederacy. During her thirty-year reign, she worked with the English colony of Virginia, trying to recapture the former power of past mamanatowicks and maintain peaceful unity among the several tribes under her leadership. She was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Virginia-Indian Treaty of Middle Plantation. In 2004 Cockacoeske was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- traditional leader or chief
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1640
