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Scouting in Virginia has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live. Many of the local groups and districts took names of historic Virginia Indian tribes in the state.
Jesse Hughes (c. 1750 – c. 1829) was a frontiersman, hunter, and scout who was an early settler in the western region of Virginia that became West Virginia and Kentucky. Hughes was noted for his hatred of Native Americans, and is said to have killed many in battle, and murdered several others. [1] "He was as savage as a wolf, and he liked to ...
A group of Warm Spring Apache scouts. Recruitment of Indian scouts was first authorized on July 28, 1866 by an act of Congress. "The President is authorized to enlist and employ in the Territories and Indian country a force of Indians not to exceed one thousand to act as scouts, who shall receive the pay and allowances of cavalry soldiers, and be discharged whenever the necessity for further ...
The execution of Chief Cornstalk in 1777 at Fort Randolph (at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, modern Point Pleasant, West Virginia) also led to attacks at Fort Henry. The elder John Wetzel, his son George and daughter Christina all died in raids in 1786, before Lewis Wetzel reached age 25, and led to his Indian-fighting career.
Virginia Indians, Commonwealth of Virginia; Virginia Council on Indians; Brigid Schulte, "With Trip to England, Va. Tribes Seek a Place in U.S. History", Washington Post, 13 Jul 2006; Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2007 Archived 2008-08-28 at the Wayback Machine, Library of Congress
The adjacent Lewis & Clark Council was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in February 1927, and it dissolved and was absorbed into the Stonewall Jackson Council in mid-1931. [1] The first Scout executive of the Stonewall Jackson Area Council was J.W. Fix who served from 1927 to 1950. The council was renamed in 2019 to the Virginia Headwaters ...
David Hurst Thomas helped revise the Boy Scouts “Indian Lore” merit badge in 2008 when he was a senior curator of North American archeology at the American Museum of Natural History.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... American Indian reservations in Virginia (2 P) T. Tutelo (7 P) Pages in category "Native American tribes in ...