Federally-recognized Native American tribe in Virginia
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations.(May 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Ethnic group
Rappahannock
Two members of the tribe, Wanda Fortune and G. Anne Richardson, with Tad Davis of the US Army Environmental Command, 2009
Total population
Enrolled members:
500
Regions with significant populations
Virginia
Essex, Caroline, and King and Queen counties, Virginia
Languages
English, Algonquian (historical)
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Monacan, Chickahominy, Mattaponi
The Rappahannock are a federally recognized tribe in Virginia and one of the eleven state-recognized tribes. They are made up of descendants of several small Algonquian-speaking tribes who merged in the late 17th century. In January 2018, they were one of six Virginia tribes to gain federal recognition by passage of the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017.
and 16 Related for: Rappahannock people information
The Rappahannock are a federally recognized tribe in Virginia and one of the eleven state-recognized tribes. They are made up of descendants of several...
Look up Rappahannock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rappahannock may refer to: Rappahannockpeople, a Native American people in Virginia, United...
The Rappahannock River is a river in eastern Virginia, in the United States, approximately 195 miles (314 km) in length. It traverses the entire northern...
(PDF). Retrieved August 28, 2020. "VDOE :: Virginia's First People Past & Present - Rappahannock". www.doe.virginia.gov. Retrieved August 28, 2020. Wolfe...
Rappahannock High School (RHS) is a secondary school serving pupils in grades 8–12 of the Richmond County Public Schools in Warsaw, Virginia, on the Northern...
Jack Roan "disenrolled" Rappahannockpeople have a historical and continual practice of disenrolling and disavowing Rappahannock of Black phenotype and...
Virginia Quinnipiac, Connecticut, eastern New York, northern New Jersey Rappahannock, Virginia Sauk (Sac), Michigan, now Iowa, Oklahoma Schaghticoke, western...
(Indigenous people) in northern Virginia at the time of European contact. They numbered approximately 1,000 and lived primarily along the Rappahannock River...
the nostrils of people who have fainted. The Montagnais use a decoction of the plant for coughing and tuberculosis. The Rappahannock Tribe take an infusion...
when Hooker secretly moved the bulk of his army up the left bank of the Rappahannock River, then crossed it on the morning of April 27, 1863. Union cavalry...
The Potomac River forms the northern boundary of the peninsula; the Rappahannock River demarcates it on the south. The land between these rivers was formed...
the Chickahominy, the Eastern Chickahominy, the Upper Mattaponi, the Rappahannock, the Monacan, and the Nansemond. Since the 1990s, the tribes had been...
frontier, then known as Chicacoan (Secocowon), some Doeg, Patawomeck and Rappahannock began moving into the region as well. They joined local tribes in disputing...
reported in a newspaper that the Rappahannock had been damaged in an ice field, but the chief officer of the Rappahannock did not mention that he had reported...
Moss Neck Manor is a historic, antebellum plantation house located at Rappahannock Academy, Caroline County, Virginia, United States. James Parke Corbin...
Global Information
