The Chickahominy: Virginia’s Independent River People
The story of the Chickahominy centers on an Algonquian-speaking people who maintained fierce independence along Virginia’s Chickahominy River for centuries, resisting both Powhatan control and English colonization. Today, with 800 enrolled members and federal recognition achieved in 2018, the Chickahominy continue their cultural traditions through annual powwows and recent reclamation…

