THEY LIVE IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. THEY LIVED NEARBY IN 1600. THEY ARE A STATE RECOGNIZED TRIBE. THEIR NAME WAS GIVEN BY THE OGIBWE MAENING "COURSE GROUND PEOPLE". THEY SPOKE ALGONQUIN AND WERE LED BY MUNGAI - PART OF ELDERS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS. THE CHICKAHOMINY RIVER WAS NAMED AFTER THEM. THEY TAUGHT THE ENGLISH HOW TO GROW CROPS AND PRESERVE FOOD. BY 1614 THE TRIBE SIGNED A TREATY WITH THE COLONISTS THAT SAID THE TRIBE WOULD PROVIDE 300 WARRIORS TO FIGHT THE SPANISH.
AFTER A WAR OF 1644 THE TRIBE CEDED THEIR LAND TO GAIN A PEACTE TREATY. THEY RESETTLED ON RESERVATION LAND THAT WAS SET ASIDE BY PUMUMKEY RIVER. BY 1661 THEY HAD TO MOVE AGAIN TO THE HEADWATERS OF THE MATTAPONI WHERE THEIR RESERVED HOLDING SHRUNK. BY 1718 THEY LOST ALL OF THEIR RESERVATION LAND BUT LIVED THERE FOR SOME TIME. SOME MIGRATED TO THE KEUIT IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. FEW RECORDS SURVIVE.
THEY WERE ALLIED WITH CHIEF POWHATEN AND HIS CONFEDERACY OF 30 TRIBES. SOME TRIBES. SOME SAY THE CHICKHOMINY JOINED THE CONFEDERACY IN 1616.
TODAY THE TRIBE HAS 840 PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITHIN THE .5 MILE RADIUS OF EACH OTHER. SEVERAL HUNDRED LIVE IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE U.S. THEY HAVE 110 ACRES NEAR CHARLES CITY COUNTY. THEY HAVE AN ANNUAL POWWOW. MOST OF THEM HAVE BEEN CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY. THE CHURCH IS WHERE THE TRIBAL HEADQUARTERS ARE LOCATED IN CHARLES CITY COUNTY. THEY HAVE SERVED IN THE MILITARY AS FAR BACK AS WORLD WAR I. THE TRIBE SERVES THE NEEDS AS A NONTAXABLE ORGANIZATION. THEY NEVER GOT FEDERAL RECOGNITION.
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