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  2. Native American tribes in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Native American tribes in Virginia are the Indigenous peoples whose tribal nations historically or currently are based in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States of America. Native peoples lived throughout Virginia for at least 12,000 years. [1] At contact, most tribes in what is now Virginia spoke languages from three major ...

  3. Nomadic pastoralism - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Nomadic pastoralism also known as Nomadic herding, is a form of pastoralism in which livestock are herded in order to seek for fresh pastures on which to graze. True nomads follow an irregular pattern of movement, in contrast with transhumance, where seasonal pastures are fixed. [1] However, this distinction is often not observed and the ...

  4. Native American agriculture in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture in Virginia is believed to have begun in the same manner that agriculture in most other places developed. Native Virginians made extensive use of wild plants in their subsistence systems, and it is hypothesized that the first attempts made at cultivation in Virginia were the selective nurturing of wild edible plants in ways that ...

  5. Pastoral society - Wikipedia

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    Pastoral society. Bedouins in Syria in the 1950s. A pastoral society is a social group of pastoralists, whose way of life is based on pastoralism, and is typically nomadic. Daily life is centered upon the tending of herds or flocks.

  6. History of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.

  7. Pastoralism - Wikipedia

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    Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds. [2] The animal species involved include cattle, camels, goats, yaks, llamas, reindeer, horses, and sheep.

  8. First Families of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]

  9. Shenandoah Germans - Wikipedia

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    Here to Stay: The Founding of a Jewish Community in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, 1840-1900, Otter Bay Books, 2016. Good, Phyllis. Mennonite Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley, Good Books, 1999. Longenecker, Stephen L. Shenandoah Religion: Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865, Baylor University Press, 2002. Sappington, Roger E.