Native American tribes in Virginia

thumb|right|A collage of Shawnee people The Shawnee ( ) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language.

thumb| Powhatan (Native American leader)|Powhatan in a [[longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)]]

The Meherrin people are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who spoke an Iroquian language. They lived between the Piedmont and coastal plains at the border of Virginia and North Carolina. Some Meherrin migrated north and joined the Iroquois in Canada on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve.

thumb|Location of the Mattaponi Indian Reservation The Mattaponi () tribe is one of only two Virginia Indian tribes in the Commonwealth of Virginia that owns reservation land, which it has held since the colonial era. 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.

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. Historically, they spoke the Pamunkey language.

The Occaneechi are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands whose historical territory was in the Piedmont region of present-day North Carolina and Virginia.

ethnic group

North American ethnic group

The Tutelo (also Totero, Totteroy, Tutera; Yesan in Tutelo) were Native American people living above the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line in present-day Virginia and West Virginia. They spoke a dialect of the Tutelo language thought to be similar to that of their neighbors, the Monacan and Manahoac nations.

ethnic group and federally-recognized tribe in Virgina

The Nansemond are the Indigenous nation of the Nansemond River, a 20-mile-long tributary of the James River in Virginia. Nansemond people traditionally lived in settlements on both sides of the Nansemond River where they fished (with the name "Nansemond" meaning "fishing point" in Algonquian), harvested oysters, hunted, and farmed in fertile soil. Today, Nansemond people belong to the federally recognized Nansemond Indian Nation.

The Westo were an Iroquoian Native American tribe encountered in what became the Southeastern U.S. by Europeans in the 17th century. They probably spoke an Iroquoian language. The Spanish called these people Chichimeco (not to be confused with Chichimeca in Mexico), and Virginia colonists may have called the same people Richahecrian. Their first appearance in the historical record is as a powerful tribe in colonial Virginia who had migrated from the mountains into the region around present-day Richmond. Their population provided a force of 700–900 warriors.

The Manahoac, also recorded as Mahock, were a Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who lived in northern Virginia at the time of European contact. They spoke a Siouan language and numbered approximately 1,000.

The Saponi are a Native American tribe historically based in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia. They spoke a Siouan language, related to the languages of the Tutelo, Biloxi, and Ofo.

The Patawomeck are a Native American tribe based in Stafford County, Virginia, who historically lived on the south side the Potomac River. Patawomeck is another spelling of Potomac, which was a 17th-century town in present-day Stafford County, Virginia.

Extinct Native American tribe

The Appomattoc (also spelled Appamatuck, Apamatic, and numerous other variants) were a historic tribe of Virginia Indians speaking an Algonquian language, and residing along the lower Appomattox River, in the area of what is now Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie Counties in present-day southeast Virginia.

Native American tribe in the United States

federally-recognized Native American tribe in Virginia

The Nacotchtank, also Anacostine, were an Algonquian Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

Algonquin Native American tribe