Nansemond Indian Nation
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Lands
the Nansemond River area of southeastern Virginia; the Nation describes traditional settlements extending into northeastern North Carolina
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Facts 4
Governance
The Nation's history dates formal organization with elected officers to 1984.
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Today
The Nation's published Environmental Program describes oyster restoration, invasive plant removal and native plant restoration.
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Land
The Nansemond Indian Nation identifies its people as Indigenous to the Nansemond River in Virginia.
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History
The Nation's history describes fishing, oyster harvesting, hunting and farming in settlements on both sides of the Nansemond River.
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Context and resources
River Homelands And Displacement
The Nation's history describes Nansemond settlements along both sides of the river and membership in the Tsenacomoco, or Powhatan, coalition. It recounts English displacement during the Anglo-Powhatan Wars of 1610 to 1646 and differing family responses to colonial pressure. The account emphasizes that political differences did not end family and kinship ties. This is its historical account, not a present land-boundary determination.
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Community Institutions And Self-Government
The Nation describes an Indiana Methodist Church established around 1850 for the Nansemond community in Norfolk County. Its history says the same site later housed a public school for Nansemond children in the 1890s. It dates formal organization with elected officers to 1984 and explains its return to the name Nansemond Indian Nation. These are connected parts of the Nation's account of community continuity.
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From the publisher's own pages
Nansemond Indian Nation: Tribal History (opens in a new tab)
Read the Nation's own account of river homelands, colonial displacement, family continuity and self-government.
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Nansemond Indian Nation: Programs (opens in a new tab)
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