Chickahominy people
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The Chickahominy are a federally recognized tribe of Virginian Native Americans who primarily live in Charles City County, located along the James River midway between Richmond and Williamsburg in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This area of the Tidewater is not far from where they were living in 1600, before the arrival of colonists from England. They were officially recognized by the state in 1983 and by the federal government in January 2018.
English depiction of the negotiation of the 1614 treaty
Treaty of Middle Plantation (1677)
Native American tribes in Virginia
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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.
A 1585 watercolor of a Chesapeake Bay warrior by John White
Estimated linguistic divisions c. AD 1565. Green is Algonquian, orange is Iroquoian, and olive is Siouan languages.
Reconstruction of a Powhatan village at Jamestown Settlement
The story of Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan and an ancestor of many of the First Families of Virginia through her marriage to John Rolfe, was romanticized by later artists.