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The Pamunkey Indian Tribe was the first tribe in Virginia to gain federal recognition, which they achieved through the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 2015. [5] In 2017, Congress recognized six more tribes through the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act. [4] The federally recognized tribes in Virginia are:
Indian Neck is an unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia, United States. [1] Indian Neck is also home to the Rappahannock tribe of Algonquin Native Americans, who incorporated in 1921 and achieved recognition as a tribe from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1983. [2] Federal recognition was achieved 24 years later with the ...
They have been recognized as a tribe by the Commonwealth of Virginia and own 32 acres (130,000 m 2) of land in Hanover County. [6] [7] Federal status was granted to the Upper Mattaponi Tribe through the passage of the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017 on January 12, 2018. [8]
History of Virginia The proposed and accepted dates for the beginning of native habitation in Virginia vary widely; traditionally the assumed date was somewhere between 12,000–10,000 B.C. The recent archaeological excavations at Cactus Hill, however, have challenged those dates with hard evidence of far earlier habitation within the state.
Some of the current place names of Native American origin in present-day Virginia and Maryland can be found recorded on Capt. John Smith's 1612 map of the region. This is a list of Native American place names in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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Virginia Farm Bureau: 300 West Creek Business Park 5 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: 200 West Creek Business Park 6 Performance Food Group 180 West Creek Business Park 7 Hermitage Country Club: 150 Manakin-Sabot: 8 Food Lion: 110 Manakin-Sabot and Goochland: 9 Elk Hill 100 Goochland
The Pamunkey Indian Reservation is a Native American reservation of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe in King William, Virginia, United States. It lies along the Pamunkey River in King William County, Virginia on the Middle Peninsula. It contains approximately 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) of land, 500 acres (2.0 km 2) of which is wetlands with numerous creeks.