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The Barona Reservation) is a federal Indian reservation located in San Diego County, California, near Lakeside [1] and the Cleveland National Forest It takes its name from the Mexican land grant Cañada de San Vicente y Mesa del Padre Barona , named in turn after Padre José Barona, a friar at Mission San Diego de Alcalá from 1798 until he ...
Historical marker near the site of the Monacan village of Monasukapanough in northern Albemarle County, Virginia.. When Jamestown settlers first explored the James River in May 1607, they learned that the James River Monacan (along with their northern Mannahoac allies on the Rappahannock River) controlled the area of the Piedmont between the Fall Line (where present-day Richmond developed) and ...
The Pamunkey Indian Tribe was the first tribe in Virginia to gain federal recognition, which they achieved through the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 2015. [5] In 2017, Congress recognized six more tribes through the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act. [4] The federally recognized tribes in Virginia are:
Wolf Creek Indian Village and Museum is a reconstruction of a Native American village, approximately dating from 1480-1520. The ethnicity of the Native Americans who lived in the village is unknown. They could have been Cherokee, or one of the Siouan languages tribes that frequented the area.
The Occaneechi are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands whose historical territory was in the Piedmont region of present-day North Carolina and Virginia. [2]In the 17th century they primarily lived on the large, 4-mile (6.4 km) long Occoneechee Island and east of the confluence of the Dan and Roanoke rivers, near current-day Clarksville, Virginia.
The Mission Indian Act of 1891 formed the administrative Bureau of Indian Affairs unit which governs San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Santa Barbara Counties. There is one Chumash reservation in the last county, and more than thirty reservations in the others.
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The effort to found St. Mary's Mission predated the founding of the English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, by about 36 years. In February 1571, the entire party was massacred by Indians, except for Alonso de Olmos. The following year, a Spanish party from Florida went to the area, rescued Alonso, and killed several Indians. [2]