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    Nottoway /ˈnɒtəˌweɪ/, also called Cheroenhaka, was a language spoken by the Nottoway people. Nottoway is closely related to Tuscarora within the Iroquoian...
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    The Meherrin people are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who spoke an Iroquian language. They lived between the Piedmont and coastal...
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    Algonquian speakers also referred to the Nottoway, Meherrin and Tuscarora people (also of the Iroquoian-language family) as Mangoak or Mangoags, a term...
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    Huron-Wyandot (severely endangered) Petun (Tobacco) † Tuscarora–Nottoway Tuscarora † MeherrinNottoway (severely endangered) Unclassified Wenrohronon or Wenro...
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    About 1,200 to 2,500 Chowanoc lived near the Chowan River, near the Nottoway and Meherrin rivers, when English colonists arrived in 1584, and they were most...
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    historians have both tried to determine when the Iroquoian-speaking Meherrin and Nottoway tribes separated from the Tuscarora. Before initial contact (1650)...
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  • Mattamuskeet Lake Santeetlah Lake Tahoma Lake Waccamaw Little Tennessee River Meherrin River Moccasin Creek Moccasin Creek (Contentnea Creek tributary) Mocassin...
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    Occaneechi (section Language)
    a description of the Indians of Virginia: "There are some of the Nottoways, Meherrins, Tuscaroras, and Saponys, who tho' they live in peace in the midst...
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  • Nansemond (section Language)
    using the reservation and gone to live with the Nottoway Indians [note: this was an Iroquoian-language tribe] on another reservation nearby ... The Nansemond...
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    the Monacan and Manahoac. The Iroquoian-speaking peoples of the Nottoway and Meherrin lived in what is now Southside Virginia south of the James River...
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  • 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...
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  • to approve the establishment of Fort Christanna between the Roanoke and Meherrin rivers, about thirty-two miles north of the present-day Haliwa-Saponi powwow...
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    of western South Carolina, northern Georgia and northeastern Alabama. Meherrin (Kauwets'a:ka): North Carolina. Iroquois mythology tells that the Iroquoian...
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    that was surveyed. However, the Iroquoian tribes in Virginia, the Nottoway and Meherrin, refused to take up their portion, saying they would not live with...
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  • Affairs Committee endorsed a bill that would grant federal recognition. Meherrin Nation. State-recognized 1987. Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. Letter...
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    which they referred to as Tsenacommacah, the Iroquoian-speaking Nottoway and Meherrin to the north and south, and the Tutelo, who spoke Siouan, to the...
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    Petun (category Articles containing French-language text)
    Chonnonton Erie Conestoga (Susquehannock) Petun Wenro Huron Cherokee Meherrin Nottoway Tuscarora, left the Carolinas after the wars, migrated to New York...
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    the Meherrin migrated south from Virginia and settled on a reservation in northeast North Carolina. Due to early maps, the Iroquoian Nottoway may have...
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    map from 1606, but they shortly thereafter moved west to join the Meherrin and Nottoway in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Tockwogh may have moved to New York...
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  • This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with N. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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    James and Neuse rivers). Inland were two Iroquoian tribes, the Nottoway and the Meherrin. The rest of Virginia was settled almost entirely by Eastern Siouan-speaking...
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    Colony of Virginia (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    encountering the Shawnee, Iroquoian-speaking peoples such as the Nottoway, Meherrin, Iroquois and Cherokee, as well as Siouan-speaking peoples such as...
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    the Potomac area. The Iroquoian stock of the Virginias, Nottoway or Mangoac and allied Meherrin and remnant Susquehanna, calling themselves Chiroenhaka...
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    Iroquoian-speaking tribes, such as the Tuscarora in South Carolina, and Meherrin and Nottoway in Virginia, are believed to have migrated long ago to the South...
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    Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    protect people from warring tribes as well as to teach them the Spanish language and the Catholic religion, but in practice was tantamount to serfdom and...
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    English, other Europeans, and West Africans, each bringing their own language, customs, and rituals. By the eighteenth century, plantation owners were...
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