Home

About Us

The Council

History

Highlights

Thru Time

Interpretive Center

State Recognition

Petition Cover Letter

Edith (Edy) Turner

The Nottoway River

Foundation

Nottoway HONORED

Artist Rocco Painting

DoTraTung "The Book"

Untchore "The Book"

Native Heritage

2022 POWWOW

2021 Beyond Powwow

2019 Pow Wow

Lifestyle

Photos

Covid-19 Vaccine Clinic

2018 POW WOW

2017 POWWOW

2014 Powwow

2011 Powwow

2010 Pow Wow

2009 Pow Wow

2008 Pow Wow

Other 2008 Events

2007 Pow Wow + gathering

2012 Community House

2011 VA. Peanut Festival

Fall Gathering

Healing PowWow

Honoring Tarika Green

Poetry

Links

Contact Us

Tribal Members

Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia

Why is it important to recognize your Native American Heritage?
Native American Heritage

Who we are today, as your neighbors, your schoolmates, your church members and your co-workers is a reflection of who our ancestors were and how they interacted with other Virginians in the past. 

Being Native American in Virginia is much more than wearing traditional regalia and attending powwows.  It involves bringing a different and more balanced perspective to our history, our present and our future.

 

Much was lost through Race Laws and through the errors of census takers during the 1800’s who identified Nottoway Indians as Mulatto, White or Black.  In 1924, the Racial Integrity Act made it illegal to identify as Indian under penalty of being arrested and other negative ramifications. 

Thus many Native Americans were incorrectly identified by the Law and their neighbors as either White or African American.  Native Americans have lived through decades of legal and historical oppression.  Survival was achieved by living quietly.


 

Web Hosting powered by Network Solutions®