Even after his death, Plecker still haunts the state's Native American community. In order to receive federal recognition and the benefits it confers, tribes must prove their continuous existence since 1900. Plecker's policies have made it impossible for Virginia tribes to do so. The federal gov...
The archaeological record beginning c. 1200 BC points to the salience of cultural traditions and social networks within a “Chesapeake” region that includes the coastal plain and piedmont provinces of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Recent summaries of Chesapeake natural history (e.g., Dent1995,...
The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Eraby Charles R. Cobb, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2019, xxi, 261 pp., ill., tables, bibliography, index, $90 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6619-6
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, was born on a large Virginia estate run on slave labor. His marriage to the wealthy Martha Wayles Skelton more than doubled his property in land and enslaved people. This is a portrait ...
JOHN ROMANI'S FORGOTTEN 1984 EXCAVATIONS AT CA-LAN-007 AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF NATIVE AMERICAN LOS ANGELES Proceedings of the Society for California ArchaeologyBEHEREC, MARC A.
during the 15th through 19th centuries, have survived in written form less often than is optimal for the historian. Because such documents are extremely rare, those interested in the Native American past also draw information from traditionalarts,folk literature,folklore,archaeology, and other sources...
50 bce, in the Grave Creek Mound Archaeology Complex, Moundsville, West Virginia.(more) As in the Southwest, the introduction of corn in the East (c. 100 bce) did not cause immediate changes in local cultures; Eastern Archaic groups had been growing locally domesticated plants for some ...
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE Cheyenne Let us know peace- For as long as the moon shall rise; Let us know peace - For as long as the rivers shall flow; Let us know peace- For as long as the sun shall shine; Let us know peace - For as long as the grass shall grow. ...
The Indians had stolen Robinson’s horses in Virginia and he with others had followed them to their Indian village. He became separated from his friends and was shot from a cane brake. He wrote his on an oak tree with his own blood. When found he was buried on the spot. Roberta’s ...