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	Virginia's Indians, Past & Present
		These include petitions filed by the United Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., The Upper Mattaponi Tribe, Inc., the Ani-Stohini/Unami Nation, Mattaponi Tribe (Mattaponi Indian Reservation), the Monacan Indian Tribe and the Chickahominy Indian Tribe.
		Some Virginia tribes are listed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' List of Petitioners as seeking status as tribes recognized by the U. government.
		These include the Chickahominy, the Eastern Chickahominy, the Mattaponi, the Upper Mattaponi, the Monacan, the Nansemond, the Pamunkey and the Rappahannock.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/vaindians.htm

	CHICKAHOMINY
		When Jamestown was founded, the Tribe lived in established villages along the Chickahominy River from the mouth of the river near Jamestown to the middle of the current county of New Kent.
		The Chickahominy Tribe was granted official recognition by the state of Virginia in 1983 and since 1996, has been working hard towards recognition by the Federal Government.
		The Chickahominy Tribe is located in Charles City County, Virginia, mid-way between Richmond and Williamsburg, near where the tribe lived in 1600.
	www.chickahominytribe.org

	Peninsula Council Camps
		Today, although they do not have a reservation, the Chickahominy tribe is the largest Native American tribe in Virginia with over a thousand members, and private land holdings in the Chickahominy watershed.
		It was members of the Chickahominy tribe who captured Captain John Smith of Jamestown when he was exploring the Chickahominy River.
		The Chickahominy River is named after the Native American people who still inhabit the region.
	home.austin.rr.com /elspanko/pencamps.html

	VCI - Chickahominy Tribe
		When Jamestown was founded, the Chickahominy Tribe lived in villages along the Chickahominy River from the James River to the middle of the current county of New Kent.
		There are approximately 750 Chickahominy people living within a five-mile radius of the Tribal Center, with several hundred more living in other parts of the United States.
		Because of their proximity to Jamestown, the Chickahominy people had early contact with the English settlers.
	www.indians.vipnet.org /tribes/chickahominy.cfm

	Chickahominy Indians Eastern Division - The Coarse Ground Corn People
		Chickahominy Indians Eastern Division is also known under the acronym CIED and will be used this way throughout this site.
		There are several interpretations of the meaning of Chickahominy, such as "crushed corn people", "coarse pound corn people, and "coarse ground corn people".
		We are a non-reservated Eastern Woodlands Tribe that has had and continues to have its roots in what is now known as the state of Virginia, since before the colonists migrated east from England.
	www.cied.org

	VCI - Eastern Chickahominy Tribe
		The Chickahominy Indians, Eastern Division, are located in New Kent County approximately twenty-five miles east of Richmond, Virginia.
		The tribe, incorporated as a non-taxable organization to serve the needs of the community, is supported through contributions and dues-paying members.
		They are a small group organized for religious, educational, and benevolent reasons.
	www.indians.vipnet.org /tribes/easternChickahominy.cfm

	Opechancanough
		a group of several tribes inhabiting eastern Virginia, including the Pamunkey, Mattapony, and Chickahominy.
		On his way to find the river's source, Smith was taken prisoner by a hunting party of the Pamunkey tribe and brought to Opechancanough, who in turn took him to
		In 1618 Powhatan (or Wahunsonacock) died, and Opechancanough, who was his brother, became chief of the
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0900098.html

	Powwows - Native American Indian Powwows - Powwows - American Indian Powwows - Powwows - East Coast - The Spike - Index Page
		Chickahominy Indian Tribe (TDSA), Chickahominy Eastern Band (TDSA), Monacan Indian Nation, Nansemond Indian Tribe, Rappahannock Indian Tribe, Upper Mattaponi Tribe, Mattaponi Indian Tribe (R), Pamunkey Indian Tribe (R).
		Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians, Swan Creek Black River Confederate Tribe.
		Pee Dee Nation of Upper South Carolina - Dillon County, Caulder’s Pee Dee Indian Tribe of South Carolina, Beaver Creek Indians, Santee Indian Organization.
	www.thespike.com /tablest.htm (435 words)

	S. 1423, Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2003
		1423 would provide federal recognition to six Indian tribes in the state of Virginia--the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Eastern Division of the Chickahominy Tribe, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahonnock Tribe, the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
		CBO estimates that implementing S. 1423 would cost the federal government about $100 million over the 2004-2009 period, assuming that the tribes receive services and benefits at a level similar to other currently recognized tribes and that the necessary funds are appropriated.
		Therefore, CBO estimates that implementing S. 1423 would cost about $8 million in 2005 and $53 million over the 2004-2009 period for other agencies to provide services to the Virginia tribes, assuming the appropriation of the necessary amounts.
	www.cbo.gov /showdoc.cfm?index=4991&sequence=0 (435 words)

	Virginia's Indians, Past & Present
		These include petitions filed by the United Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., The Upper Mattaponi Tribe, Inc., the Ani-Stohini/Unami Nation, Mattaponi Tribe (Mattaponi Indian Reservation), the Monacan Indian Tribe and the Chickahominy Indian Tribe.
		Some Virginia tribes are listed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' List of Petitioners as seeking status as tribes recognized by the U. government.
		Haliwa-Saponi Tribe Home Page; descendants of the Saponi, Tuscarora and Nansemond Peoples who now live in Halifax and Warren Counties of North Carolina.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/vaindians.htm (435 words)

	Virginia's Indians, Past & Present
		These include petitions filed by the United Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., The Upper Mattaponi Tribe, Inc., the Ani-Stohini/Unami Nation, Mattaponi Tribe (Mattaponi Indian Reservation), the Monacan Indian Tribe and the Chickahominy Indian Tribe.
		Some Virginia tribes are listed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' List of Petitioners as seeking status as tribes recognized by the U. government.
		Inventory and Assessment of Human Remains from the Hand Site (44SN22), Southampton County, Virginia, in the National Museum of Natural History Some tribes have sought the remains of their people held in museum collections from excavations.
	falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/vaindians.htm (435 words)

	American Indian Melungeon
		In a few generations their original nationality would be lost to history if they remained in the tribe.
		Mattaponi women and a very dark Haliwa-Saponi from North Carolina my wife and I met when we attended the Chickahominy Fall Festival and Powwow in 1993 were aware of this and had used it as a defense against claims that they had Negroid ancestry.
		A visit to the Chickahominy and Rappahannock in Tidewater Virginia in 1973 gave me several good reasons to think that the claim of a Negroid genotype in such racial isolates in the Eastern United States should be seriously downplayed.
	www.melungeons.com /Amemel/AIMel.htm (18825 words)

	Canku Ota - November 30, 2002 - State's Tribes Gather to Give Thanks
		CHARLES CITY, VA-- The elders shuffled back to their tables with plates piled high with roasted venison and succotash, a Chickahominy dish of lentil beans, corn and tomatoes.
		The eight state-recognized American Indian tribes of Virginia gathered Saturday evening for a Thanksgiving dinner in which more than 100 young and old broke bread and prayed together inside the Chickahominy Tribal Center in Charles City County.
		So far, pledges from Eastern Chickahominy members have met the payments.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues02/Co11302002/CO_11302002_Virginia_Tribes.htm (781 words)

	CHICKAHOMINY
		Today, it is led by a Tribal Council consisting of twelve men and women, including a chief and two assistant chiefs, all elected by vote of the members of the tribe.
		At the time of the settlers’ arrival, the Tribe was led by a council of elders and religious leaders called the mungai or ‘great men’, rather than by a single person.
		There are approximately 750 Chickahominy people living within a five-mile radius of the Tribal Center, with several hundred more living in other parts of the United States.
	www.chickahominytribe.org (598 words)

	Virtual Jamestown: Powhatan
		Before the Jamestown settlers could complete their fort, 200 Paspaheghs, a tribe of the Powhatans that lived near the juncture of the James and Chickahominy rivers, attacked them, killing Eustis Clovell and wounding eleven other colonists.
		So long as the heathen savage was fundamental to the English definition of an Indian, the English were the "natives," and the legacy of Jamestown continued with even worse consequences for subsequent newcomers.
		Proving that a little knowledge can be dangerous and thinking that the Chesapeakes who had initially driven them back to the boats were not under Powhatan's dominion, Newport attempted to make an alliance against them with a local chief he mistook for Powhatan.
	www.virtualjamestown.org /Powhat1.html (967 words)

	Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore--Cultural Heritage--First People
		The surviving historical Powhatan Tribes of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware: Pocomoke, Accohannock of Maryland, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Nansemond, and Chickahominy of Virginia.
		Pauwau is an Algonquian word for a spiritual gathering of the Nation's Family of Tribes.
		The Accohannock Indian Tribe, one of the oldest indigenous Tribes of Algonquians of the old Powhatan Empire, is committed to presenting authentic history and culture of our ancestors, who welcomed the English to the shores of old Accomack.
	skipjack.net /le_shore/heritage/nativam/1stpeopl.html (967 words)

	AMERICAN INDIAN
		Chief Atkins was well aware that the Chickahominy were never part of the original Powhatan Confederacy and that the Rappahannock were only allied with it on occasion.
		Chief Markham uses the tribe as a springboard to help the poor in Appalachia.
		Chief Hawk Pope�a direct descendant of the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk�who is today a leader of the Shawnee Nation United Remnant Band, happened to be at the museum and gave me a personal tour.
	www.angelfire.com /tn3/youngeagle/AMERICAN_INDIANbook.htm (967 words)

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