Nation
Pamunkey Indian Tribe · pamunkey · Pamunkey Tribe · Powhatan · TsenacomocoPamunkey Indian Tribe
Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.
- Official name
- Pamunkey Indian Tribe
- Recorded status
- Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)
- Website
- https://www.pamunkey.org/
- Region
- Virginia
In the record
Land has come back: Pamunkey Indian Tribe buys the 13-acre Windsor Shades estate.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
Names
Each name shows where it comes from. A nation’s own name is shown as the nation writes it.
Official names
Peoples within this name
- Powhatan
- TsenacomocoPowhatan (Virginia Algonquian)
Recognition, as each source states it
Recognition is a legal and political status that governments assign; it is not a measure of who a people are.
- Recognized by a state, VARecognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia (listed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth); nine tribes by act of the General Assembly, two through a treaty, per the source (source does not say which)source
Who is doing the work
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
These links were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Governed by 1
Named in 1
Sources
- commonwealth.virginia.gov/virginia-indians/state-recognized-tribes/reference work
State recognition is the formal declaration of recognition to an American Indian tribe located in Virginia by the Commonwealth.
- pamunkey.org/historyunclassified
a political alliance of Algonquian-speaking tribes that in 1607 was ruled by Powhatan
- federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2026/01/30/2026-01899.htmlprimary record
Pamunkey Indian Tribe
- Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
Listed in 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026).
Research notes
From org-pamunkey.
- Kind
- Nation
- Confidence
- Medium
- Nation review
- Not yet reviewed by this nation