Wahunsenakah Lodge was named for the Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy. His Native American name was Wahunsenakah, although the English settlers called him Chief Powhatan, and the Kiskiack tribe was one of the thirty or so tribes which made up this Confederacy. The area now known as Indian Field on the Naval Weapons Station was the site of a wigwam village bounded on one side by the York River - known by the Kiskiack as the "Pamunkey" - and on the other by pine groves. In 1612, it was a village of 40 or 50 warriors, plus their families, under the sub-chief "Ottahotin" who also had control over the Pamunkeys and the Chicahominies. Ottahotin, in turn, owed allegiance to Wahunsenakah.
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