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At about the same time, the historian Henry Howe reported two Indian groups living in King William County, the Pamunkey and the Mattaponi. In 1865, the Pamunkey Baptist Church was formed, which many Mattaponi attended over the years. Throughout the 19th century, the Mattaponi Tribe had its own tribal leadership. In 1868, the Mattaponi Tribe ...
The Matta River and the Poni River join in Caroline County to form the Mattaponi River. From the confluence of its tributaries, the Mattaponi flows generally southeast through Caroline County, where it collects the South River at the southern edge of the Mattaponi Wildlife Management Area ; in its lower reaches it defines the boundary between ...
Canadian River Band of the Southern Cherokee Nation [25] Cataba Tribal Association [30] [31] [32] Chickamauga Cherokee Nation White River Band (II). [46] There is also a Chickamauga Cherokee Nation White River Band (I) in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory, [25] also in Arkansas and Missouri
The Pamunkey Tribe is one of only two that retain the reservation lands assigned by the 1646 and 1677 treaties with the English colonial government. [9] Their reservation is located on some of their ancestral land on the Pamunkey River adjacent to present-day King William County. [9]
[citation needed] About 3,000 to 3,500 are enrolled as tribal members in state-recognized tribes. [citation needed] The Monacan Indian Nation has tribal membership of about 2,000. [36] The Pamunkey and the Mattaponi are the only tribes in Virginia to have maintained their reservations from the 17th-century colonial treaties. These two tribes ...
The Pamunkey River is formed by the confluence of the North Anna and South Anna rivers on the boundary of Hanover and Caroline counties, about 5 mi (8 km) northeast of the town of Ashland. It flows generally southeastwardly past the Pamunkey Indian Reservation to the town of West Point, where it meets the Mattaponi River to form
Lived northwest of the Pamunkey, along the Pamunkey River to the confluence of the North Anna and South Anna Rivers, which form the Pamunkey River; their chief was Pomiscatuck; about 60 warriors or 200 tribal members (according to Smith) or 70 warriors or 235 tribal members (according to Strachey). (1607 / 1611).
The tribe resettled on reservation land set aside by the treaty in the Pamunkey Neck area, alongside another Virginia Algonquian tribe, the Pamunkey, between the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers. [ 2 ] They stayed there until 1661, when they moved again to the headwaters of the Mattaponi, but their reserved holdings continued to be encroached upon ...