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T. Tuscarora people. Tutelo. Categories: Native American history of West Virginia. Native American tribes by state. West Virginia.
Mingo. Statue of Chief Logan, a notable Mingo leader, in Logan, West Virginia. The Mingo people are an Iroquoian group of Native Americans, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants. Some Susquehannock survivors also joined them, and assimilated.
Pages in category "Native American history of West Virginia". The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of West Virginia placenames of Native American origin.
The first evidence of humans in West Virginia dates back to the nomadic Paleo-Indians in 11,000 BCE. [1] From 7000 to 1000 BCE, archaic Native American cultures developed in the Northern Panhandle , the Eastern Panhandle , and the Kanawha River Valley. [ 1 ]
The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1] The culture was named by Mary Butler in 1939 for the Monongahela River, whose valley contains the majority of this culture's sites.
The Criel Mound, also known as the South Charleston Mound, is a Native American burial mound located in South Charleston, West Virginia.It is one of the few surviving mounds of the Kanawha Valley Mounds that were probably built in the Woodland period after 500 B.C. [2] The mound was built by the Adena culture, probably around 250–150 BC, [citation needed] and lay equidistant between two ...
As of 2018 the Monacan Indian Nation has approximately 2,000 members. [2] There are satellite groups in West Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, and Ohio. The Monacan nation was first recorded by Jamestown settlers in colonial Virginia. Their native language is a Siouan language which is extinct. [3]
The Buffalo Indian Village Site is an archaeological site located near Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River in the United States. This site sits atop a high terrace on the eastern bank of the Kanawha River and was once home to a variety of Native American villages including the Archaic, Middle Woodland and Fort Ancient cultures of this region.