The Brafferton, built in 1723 and among the oldest buildings in Virginia, is a former school for Virginian Indians located southeast of the Sir Christopher Wren Building, facing the President's House on the campus of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Brafferton, seen from Jamestown Road
Native American tribes in Virginia
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.