Myths of the World

The Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe of Southampton County, Virginia, is a state-recognized Indigenous tribe located on 263 acres in Courtland at a site called Cattashowrock Town. Their ancestral land was east of the fall line of the James River, along the Nottoway and Blackwater rivers.  Archaeological evidence from village sites along the Nottoway River, such as the Hand Site and Cactus Hill, demonstrate the presence of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) more than 10,000 years ago. The Hand Site—excavated in 1965, 1966, and 1969—has particular importance to the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway), as it provides invaluable information on the lived experiences of ancestors over a 1,000-year period. The Iroquoian-speaking ancestors of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe of Southampton County lived east of the fall line of the James River, along the Nottoway and Blackwater rivers. They lived in dispersed communities and hunted, fished, farmed, and buried their dead, or “Wa-he-hun,” on that land....

The  Monongahela tribe  was a  Native American  cultural manifestation of  Late Woodland  peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day  Western Pennsylvania , western  Maryland , eastern  Ohio , and  West Virginia . [ 1 ]  The culture was named by  Mary Butler  in 1939 for the  Monongahela River , whose valley contains the majority of this culture's sites.  The Monongahela practiced   maize   agriculture, and lived in well laid out villages, some of which consisted of as many as 50-100 structures. They traded with other Indian groups who in turn traded with Europeans. The Monongahela seem to have disappeared some time during the 1620s or 1630s before having significant direct contact with Europeans.  Many scholars believe this to be the result of the spread of European   infectious diseases . Others believe that most of the Monongahela were killed by or assimilated into either the   Iroquo...

SHOSHONE LITERATURE The Shoshone or Shoshoni ( /ʃoʊˈʃoʊniː/  ( listen ) or  /ʃəˈʃoʊniː/  ( listen )) are a  Native American tribe  with four large cultural/linguistic divisions: Eastern Shoshone :  Wyoming Northern Shoshone : southern  Idaho Western Shoshone :  Nevada , northern  Utah Goshute : western  Utah , eastern  Nevada They traditionally speak the  Shoshoni language , part of the  Numic languages  branch of the large  Uto-Aztecan language  family. The Shoshone were sometimes called the  Snake Indians  by neighboring tribes and early American explorers. Their peoples have become members of  federally recognized tribes  throughout their traditional areas of settlement, often co-located with the  Northern Paiute  people of the Great Basin. The name “Shoshone” comes from  Sosoni , a  Shoshone  word for high-growing grasses. Some ne...