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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:
They are one of 11 [1] Native American tribes in Virginia and an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. The tribe became the Commonwealth of Virginia's first federally recognized tribe [2] [3] receiving its status in January 2016. [4] The historical Pamunkey people were part of the Powhatan paramountcy, made up of Algonquian-speaking ...
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. Helen C. Rountree. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman, Univ. of Oklahoma Press (1989). Helen C. Rountree. Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries. Norman, Univ. of Oklahoma Press (1990).
Barbour County was settled primarily by white people from eastern Virginia, beginning in the 1770s and '80s. It was part of the colony (later state) of Virginia until West Virginia was admitted to the Union as a separate state during the American Civil War. The families that later became known as "Chestnut Ridge people" began to arrive after ...
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 ...
The Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia is one of Virginia's eleven state-recognized Native American tribes. [18] It is however not federally recognized. It achieved state recognition in February 2010. [19] In the 17th century, at the time of early English colonization, the Patawomeck tribe was a "fringe" component of the Powhatan Confederacy
Virginia placenames of Native American origin (1 P) Pages in category "Native American history of Virginia" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
Since the 1990s, the tribes had been seeking federal recognition through an act of Congress. The most recent unsuccessful effort was in March 2009, when Representative Jim Moran of Virginia sponsored a bill to grant federal recognition to these six Virginia Indian "landless" tribes. [11] By June the bill had passed the House of Representatives.