Dwelling in Communities throughout the Southeastern Counties of Virginia, and surrounding the Nottoway River into the Tidewater area are the present day generation of the "People of the Longhouse...."
Gathering at the Nottoway River
HISTORY
Nottoway children playing by the Nottoway River
Chief Lynette Allston sharing Nottoway History
Early history prior to 1607, several distinct groups of Iroquoian speaking native people including the Nottoway lived in the Virginia-North Carolina coastal plain. The Nottoway remained relatively undisturbed by the English Colony expanding from Jamestown during the first half of the seventeenth century... | Read More