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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 . Native peoples lived throughout Virginia for at least 12,000 years. [ 1] At contact, most tribes in what is now Virginia spoke languages from three major ...
Nansemond. The Nansemond are the Indigenous people of the Nansemond River, a 20-mile-long tributary of the James River in Virginia. Nansemond people lived in settlements on both sides of the Nansemond River where they fished (with the name "Nansemond" meaning "fishing point" in Algonquian ), harvested oysters, hunted, and farmed in fertile soil.
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
Appomattoc. The Appomattoc (also spelled Appamatuck, Apamatic, and numerous other variants) were a historic tribe of Virginia Indians speaking an Algonquian language, and residing along the lower Appomattox River, in the area of what is now Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie Counties in present-day southeast Virginia .
1. A Native American allotee is entitled to the share of the reservation's water that is needed to irrigate their land. 2. When a Native American sells their allotment to a non-Native American, the purchaser acquires the allotment's reserved water rights. 3. The priority date of those rights remains the date when the reservation was created. 4.
Pamunkey. The Pamunkey Indian Tribe is one of 11 Virginia Indian [ 1] tribal governments recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the state's first federally recognized tribe, [ 2][ 3] receiving its status in January 2016. [ 4] Six other Virginia tribal governments, the Chickahominy, the Eastern Chickahominy, the Upper Mattaponi, the ...
Reservation lands in the contiguous United States as of 2019. Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the concept of the inherent authority of Indigenous tribes to govern themselves within the borders of the United States. The U.S. federal government recognized American Indian tribes as independent nations and came to policy agreements with ...
Pamunkey Indian Reservation. / 37.57472°N 77.00139°W / 37.57472; -77.00139. The Pamunkey Indian Reservation is a Native American reservation of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe located in King William, Virginia, United States. This reservation lies along the Pamunkey River in King William County, Virginia on the Middle Peninsula.