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The larger Mattaponi Indian Tribe lives in King William County on the reservation, which stretches along the borders of the Mattaponi River, near West Point, Virginia. [3] [4] The Mattaponi were one of six tribes inherited by Chief Powhatan in the late 16th century. [5] The tribe spoke an Algonquian language, like other members of the Powhatan ...
The Matta River and the Poni River join in Caroline County to form the Mattaponi River. From the confluence of its tributaries, the Mattaponi flows generally southeast through Caroline County, where it collects the South River at the southern edge of the Mattaponi Wildlife Management Area ; in its lower reaches it defines the boundary between ...
The Pamunkey River is formed by the confluence of the North Anna and South Anna rivers on the boundary of Hanover and Caroline counties, about 5 mi (8 km) northeast of the town of Ashland. It flows generally southeastwardly past the Pamunkey Indian Reservation to the town of West Point, where it meets the Mattaponi River to form
The three largest rivers in order of both discharge and watershed area are the Susquehanna River, the Potomac River, and the James River. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Other major rivers include the Rappahannock River , the Appomattox River (which flows into the lower James River), the York River (a combination of the Pamunkey and Mattaponi tributary rivers ...
The Pamunkey Tribe is one of only two that retain the reservation lands assigned by the 1646 and 1677 treaties with the English colonial government. [9] Their reservation is located on some of their ancestral land on the Pamunkey River adjacent to present-day King William County. [9]
A descendant of Opechancanough herself, Cockacoeske became the solitary Werowansqua (Chief) of the Pamunkey and the colonial government of Virginia recognized her as the "Queen" of Pamunkey. She remained in power for nearly thirty years, living in the land between the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers on land ceded to them after the end of the war ...
Mattaponi River; P. Pamunkey River This page was last edited on 25 June 2017, at 01:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
In 1991, Richardson became executive director of Mattaponi-Pamunkey-Monacan, Inc., that provides training and employment services for Virginia Indians. In 1998, Anne was elected the first woman Chief to lead a tribe in Virginia since the 18th century, by the Rappahannock Tribe. She is a fourth generation chief in her family.