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The larger Mattaponi Indian Tribe lives in King William County on the reservation, which stretches along the borders of the Mattaponi River, near West Point, Virginia. [3] [4] The Mattaponi were one of six tribes inherited by Chief Powhatan in the late 16th century. [5] The tribe spoke an Algonquian language, like other members of the Powhatan ...
Mattaponi, Chickahominy, Patawomeck The Pamunkey Indian Tribe is a federally recognized tribe of Pamunkey people in Virginia . They control the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William County, Virginia .
The Mattaponi River ultimately rises as four streams in Spotsylvania County, each of which is given a shorter piece of the Mattaponi's name: The Mat River and the Ta River join in Spotsylvania County to form the Matta River; The Po River and the Ni River join in Caroline County to form the Poni River;
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The tribe resettled on reservation land set aside by the treaty in the Pamunkey Neck area, alongside another Virginia Algonquian tribe, the Pamunkey, between the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers. [ 2 ] They stayed there until 1661, when they moved again to the headwaters of the Mattaponi, but their reserved holdings continued to be encroached upon ...
Current Mattaponi tradition holds that she was the wife of Kocoum, brother of the Patawomeck weroance Japazaws, ...
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The death of Opechancanough in 1646 led to the disintegration of the confederacy built by his brother Powhatan.Cockacoeske's husband Totopotomoi became leader in 1649, [4] but English colonists in Virginia only referred to him the "king of the Pamunkeys," not "king of the Indians," as they had earlier paramount chiefs. [5]