Mattaponi

[mat-uh-puh-nahy]

noun

1. a river in E Virginia, flowing SE to join the Pamunkey and form the York River. 120 miles (193 km) long.

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After 1600, other Indians — Mattaponi and Patawomecks — moved into the Rappahannock River Valley.

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Under the Piscataway chiefdom, other tribes — including the Yaocomico, Mattawoman, Pamunkey, Mattaponi and Nanjemoy — were interconnected with their own systems of justice, governing and defending themselves.

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Our friends are the Arrohateck, the Pamunkey, the Mattaponi, and the Youghtanund.

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“We’re just … asking for the respect that all the other federally recognized tribes across the continent get. Give us a seat at the table when the negotiations get started,” Upper Mattaponi Chief Frank Adams told members of a House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources subcommittee on Wednesday.

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In three years, tribes — Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Rappahannock, Upper Mattaponi, Monacan and Nansemond and, previously, the Pamunkey — have set up offices and hired professionals to administer the funds, but they have at times struggled to be taken seriously by state and local officials.

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