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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 Occaneechi are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands whose historical territory was in the Piedmont region of present-day North Carolina and Virginia. [2]In the 17th century they primarily lived on the large, 4-mile (6.4 km) long Occoneechee Island and east of the confluence of the Dan and Roanoke rivers, near current-day Clarksville, Virginia.
Two other Chesepian towns were Apasus and Chesepioc, both near the Chesapeake Bay in what is now the independent city of Virginia Beach. Chesepioc was located in near Great Neck Point . Archaeologists and others have found numerous Native American arrowheads, stone axes, pottery, and beads in Great Neck Point.
By 1700, the Accomac population had declined by approximately 90 percent due to introduced diseases such as smallpox and violence from the colonists. [11] The colonists began calling all American Indians to the immediate east of Chesapeake Bay "Accomac."
Historical marker near the site of the Monacan village of Monasukapanough in northern Albemarle County, Virginia.. When Jamestown settlers first explored the James River in May 1607, they learned that the James River Monacan (along with their northern Mannahoac allies on the Rappahannock River) controlled the area of the Piedmont between the Fall Line (where present-day Richmond developed) and ...
The Wicocomico people were encountered by Captain John Smith in 1608 as he explored Virginia. [2] He notes a village of about 130 men on the South side of the mouth of the Patawomeke (Potomac) River. The Northumberland County Court began manipulating and interfering in the governance of the local tribes by the mid-17th century.
Native American tribes in the U.S. state of Virginia. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. C. Chickahominy (1 C, 1 P) M.
Various tribes each held some individual powers locally, and each had a chief known as a weroance (male) or, more rarely, a weroansqua (female), meaning "commander". [13]As early as the era of John Smith, the individual tribes of this grouping were recognized by English colonists as falling under the greater authority of the centralized power led by the chiefdom of Powhatan (c. 1545 – c ...