Myths of the World

We are the people of The Kiskiack Tribe . Our Tribe was created out of two or more tribal groups, The Kiskiack and the Chickahominy groups, which were both of the Powhatan confederacy. The Chickahominy’s were not members of the Powhatan confederacy; The Chickahominy’s served as an ally to the Powhatan chief.  The Kiskiack is a native American tribe of the Powhatan confederacy in what is now the present-day York County, Virginia. The name means “WIDE LAND OR BROAD PLACE” in the native language. It was one of their villages on the Virginia peninsula in the middle of the 16th and early 17th centuries. The Kiskiack Tribe was part of the large Powhatan confederacy near the south bank of the York river on the Virginia Peninsula that extended into the Chesapeake Bay. The Kiskiack were one of the original six tribes on the Powhatan confederacy that had built permanent villages made up of numerous long-houses or Yihakans, in which related families would live with both private and communal s...

The  Piscataway   / p ɪ s ˈ k æ t ə ˌ w eɪ /   pih- SKAT -ə- WAY  or  Piscatawa   / p ɪ s ˈ k æ t ə ˌ w eɪ ,   ˌ p ɪ s k ə ˈ t ɑː w ə /   pih- SKAT -ə- WAY ,  PIH -skə- TAH -wə , are an  Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands . They spoke  Algonquian   Piscataway , a regional dialect similar to  Nanticoke . The neighboring  Haudenosaunee , called them the Conoy, with whom they partly merged with after a massive decline of population and rise in colonial violence following two centuries of interactions with European settlers. Two major groups that represent Piscataway descendants received  state recognition  as Native American tribes from Maryland in 2012: the  Piscataway Indian Nation  and  Piscataway Conoy Tribe . Within the latter group was included the Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Sub-Tribes and the Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians. All these groups descend from the ...