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Pamunkey
Sign in to saveThe 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.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Pamunkey Indian Tribe
- Ethnic group.population
- Enrolled members: 430
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Pamunkey Indian Reservation, Virginia, U.S.
- Ethnic group.langs
- English, formerly Pamunkey
- Ethnic group.rels
- Christianity; Indigenous
- Ethnic group.related
- Mattaponi, Chickahominy, Patawomeck
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Language
- Way of living
- Subsistence and relationship to the land
- Homes
- Government
- History
- Precontact
- European Arrival
- Gradual English colonization
- Bacon's Rebellion
- Later history
- Pottery
- Federal recognition
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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.
They are one of 11 Native American tribes in Virginia and an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. The tribe became the Commonwealth of Virginia's first federally recognized tribe receiving its status in January 2016.