Virginia

Assateague Indians of Virginia - Mattaponi - VA http://www.esva.net/~assateague/index.htm - old URL, redirects

Assateague means "swifly moving water" We are a tribal group comprised mainly of local people with American Native blood in our heritage. It is a fallacy to think that there were no Indians left after contact with the Colonials. Our numbers were decimated by diseases that were new to us, and the need for land by those arriving from Europe forced our larger family groups to flee. We hid along the swamps, marshes, bays and oceans of the Eastern Shores of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Historically, we were known also as the Kickotanks or the Great Assateagues Today, many of us try to live as traditionally as possible in this modern world. We believe, as our Ancestors did, that we must honor The Great Spirit on a daily basis and even minute by minute. The Earth Mother and all our brothers and sisters, the two legged and the four legged, are our relations.

So if you or your family have any questions or even things that you've just wondered about concerning the contact or precontact era Peoples Native to the Eastern Shores of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, email (questions_AT_assateaguepeoples_DOT_org) us and we will try to feature the answers on site.

Ani-Stohini/Unami Nation - VA They are a small Indian tribe located in the mountains of southern Appalachia primarily in the seven mountain counties of Carroll, Grayson, Wythe, Washington, Smyth, Patrick, and Floyd in the state of Virginia and Surry and Alleghany Counties in North Carolina. The people themselves have been called over forty different names throughout history. It is possible that the people come from an ancient peoples who have resided in the area for over fourteen thousand years. The original Tla Wilano language probably didn't resemble the modern language While the tribe is petitioning for federal acknowledgement, it remains the only tribe in the eastern United