• Meherrin Indian Tribe is a state-recognized tribe and nonprofit organization in North Carolina. Its members identify as descendants of the Meherrin people...
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    Virginia and North Carolina. The Meherrin Indian Tribe is a state-recognized tribe in North Carolina. The meaning of Meherrin is unknown. Their name was first...
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  • State-recognized tribe with the same name, Meherrin Indian Tribe (I). Ne'Ha-Tsunii Indian Nation Nee Tribe (a.k.a. Nuluti Equani Ehi Tribe and Near River...
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    historians have both tried to determine when the Iroquoian-speaking Meherrin and Nottoway tribes separated from the Tuscarora. Before initial contact (1650),...
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    Iroquoian-speaking peoples of the Nottoway and Meherrin lived in what is now Southside Virginia south of the James River. Other tribes occupied mountain and foothill...
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  • Richmond-Danville railroad reached Meherrin and built the Meherrin Depot, named for the tribe of Indians that lived there and along the Meherrin River. As of 2000, the...
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    American Indian tribe that does not currently have a federally established Indian reservation. United States List of federally recognized tribes List of...
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    Historical Markers in Bertie County, North Carolina Meherrin Indian Tribe, state-recognized tribe that resides in the county "NC Pronunciation Guide"...
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    21st century as the Inner Banks. Hertford County is home of the Meherrin Indian Tribe, descendants of indigenous people who had inhabited the region for...
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    Two tribes of Nottoway are recognized by the state of Virginia: the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia and the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe. Other...
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  • The Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, also the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe, is a state-recognized tribe and nonprofit organization in North Carolina. They are not federally...
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    Historic Places listings in Gates County, North Carolina Meherrin Indian Tribe, state-recognized tribe that resides in the county "QuickFacts: Gates County...
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    Places listings in Northampton County, North Carolina Meherrin Indian Tribe, state-recognized tribe that resides in the county a South Texas counties voting...
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    Massachusett, formerly Massachusetts Ponkapoag, formerly Massachusetts Meherrin, Virginia, North Carolina Menominee, Wisconsin Meskwaki (Fox), Michigan...
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    refuge in the Piedmont of Virginia. Two encampments were established on the Meherrin River near the village of the Siouan-speaking Occaneechi on the Roanoke...
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    Cherokee (redirect from Keetoowah tribe)
    here. Other Iroquoian-speaking tribes in the Southeast have been the Tuscarora people of the Carolinas, and the Meherrin and Nottaway of Virginia. James...
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  • of 10/23/1989). In 2009, Senate Indian Affairs Committee endorsed a bill that would grant federal recognition. Meherrin Nation. State-recognized 1987....
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  • Indians, an Iroquoian-language tribe, on another reservation nearby. The Nansemond sold their reservation in 1792 and were known as "citizen" Indians...
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    Binford, Lewis R. (1967), "An Ethnohistory of the Nottoway, Meherrin and Weanock Indians of Southeastern Virginia", Ethnohistory, vol. 14, no. 3/4, Ethnohistory...
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    (deer and otter). The Algonquian speakers also referred to the Nottoway, Meherrin and Tuscarora people (also of the Iroquoian-language family) as Mangoak...
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    Winton and the surrounding area is the home of the Meherrin Indian Tribe. This state-recognized tribe has more than 900 members. Rivers Correctional Institution...
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    Chowanoc (category Extinct Native American tribes)
    River, near the Nottoway and Meherrin rivers, when English colonists arrived in 1584, and they were most populous tribe in their region. Colonial Governor...
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    Massachusett, formerly Massachusetts Ponkapoag, formerly Massachusetts Meherrin, Virginia, North Carolina Menominee, Wisconsin Meskwaki (Fox), formerly...
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  • Westo (redirect from Westo tribe)
    attacked both coastal Indians, such as the Cusabo, and settlements of the Carolina colony. The colony depended on the Esaw (Catawba) tribe for defense until...
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    recognition as Native American tribes in 2012: the Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory and the Piscataway Conoy Tribe of Maryland. Within the latter...
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  • won, which was a "crushing defeat" for the Chowanoc. The tribe was moved from the Meherrin River to a reservation on Bennett's Creek, in modern-day Gates...
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    Saponi (category Native American tribes in North Carolina)
    Distinct from the Person County Indians, a group of Saponi who remained in North Carolina merged with the Tuscarora, Meherrin, and Machapunga and migrated...
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    The Piscataway Indian Nation /pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ/, also called Piscatawa /pɪsˈkætəˌweɪ, ˌpɪskəˈtɑːwə/, is a state-recognized tribe in Maryland who identify...
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    letter that included a description of the Indians of Virginia: "There are some of the Nottoways, Meherrins, Tuscaroras, and Saponys, who tho' they live...
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    tribes in Virginia, including the Nottoway, the Appomattoc, the Wayonaoake, the Nansemond, the Nanzatico, the Monacan, the Saponi, and the Meherrin following...
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