Talk:Native American tribes in Virginia

Pre 16th century
There needs to be more info prior to the 16th century.-Ravedave (talk) 02:07, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I have a few great books I could use to add more information prior to the 16th century. I will add this to the page as soon as I get the chance.  Great suggestion.Sarah1607 (talk) 18:14, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

References and Suggested reading
These sections needs correct formats and full citations, not bare urls for online sources. Books need the location, publisher and year of publication for each entry, and citations need page numbers. Also, most Wiki articles use a format of authors' names first, followed by titles and publication informationParkwells (talk) 16:52, 1 November 2012 (UTC).

Suggested changes to get rid of unencyclopedic content
Current version:

My proposed changes:

My problem is that an encylopedia should just be a statement of facts, not trying to be all mystical and tourguidey. "They are still here". C'mon, what is that? It sounds like it comes from a crappy documentary. I'm not racist or bigoted or a white supremacist, I'm just trying to improve things. Thank you. 58.7.94.82 (talk) 06:57, 2 November 2012 (UTC)


 * The text "Virginia Indians are proud of their heritage and history, and want to tell their side of the story. They are still here." is transparently unencyclopedic and reads like an emotive lede (I though that perhaps it was taken straight from the blurb of the cited book, but it seems not). The last paragraph of the current version has no particular issue, except tone perhaps, it's fine for a encyclopedia to report on cultural/identity issues within a group and that some members of the group "feel like they live in two worlds", the cited source devotes a chapter to this. The two users who have engaged with you here and at ANI have treated you extremely poorly, apologies-- 92.2.82.159 (talk) 21:08, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm in agreement with the two anonymous users here, the current text is completely inappropriate. Claritas § 21:16, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

I've mostly implemented the above change. -- No unique  names  15:45, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Unrecognized tribes
A giant portion of this article was taken up by an unrecognized "tribes" section, but for many of these organizations, the only source provided for them was the Cherokee's "Fraudulent Tribe" list. So, the only citations were ones saying that these are *not* Native American tribes, so by definition should not be included in an article titled "Native American tribes in Virginia." If any of these organizations individually have documented notability and have secondary, published sources supporting their Native claims, then they could be added to the prose for whatever notable and relevant subject they relate to within the article. As a giant list, the entries are not notable or relevant the article. Yuchitown (talk) 00:51, 2 January 2017 (UTC)Yuchitown

These are real living human beings who are trying to practice their heritage and culture. Your elitist pov that they need the u.s. government permission or imprimatur to be considered relevant to the topic is simply that, your pov. How about getting consensus before consigning them to the memory hole in what seems a shamelessly agenda driven and partisan edit??? 208.54.36.230 (talk) 01:00, 2 January 2017 (UTC)


 * First, it's not appropriate to change words in other people's comments on talk pages. Second, the "unrecognized tribes" section was cut-and-pasted from the List of unrecognized tribes in the United States and does not need to be duplicated here. Almost all of the organizations previously listed on this article are Cherokee Heritage Groups and not Native American tribes. The inclusion of the concept would require citations, but individual entries would have to meet Notability standards of stand alone lists, which requires verifiable, reliable sources—published accounts in secondary sources. Currently, the citation for many of these groups is the "Fraudulent Group List" published by the Cherokee Nation—so a citation saying that they are *not* Native American tribes. An organization identifying itself as Wicocomico is mention but the link redirects to the Wicocomico article, which is mostly about the historic tribe, so I'll add that to the article with citations. Yuchitown (talk) 22:32, 3 January 2017 (UTC)Yuchitown
 * Okay, integrated Wicocomico into the article's prose and linked unrecognized tribes in Virginia is the "see also" section. Yuchitown (talk) 23:03, 3 January 2017 (UTC)Yuchitown

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Reservations
The article indicates that native Americans were at risk of disappearing because they lacked reservations.

“Because the Native Americans generally lacked reservations and some had intermarried with Europeans and African Americans, many colonists and later European-American residents of Virginia assumed that the Native Americans were disappearing. They did not understand that mixed-race descendants could be brought up as fully culturally Native American.”

This wholly ignores that Native American tribes of the region existed and flourished without European interference. Frankly I don’t know how to explain that this segment is racist but it is. Spskeldon (talk) 06:12, 10 September 2022 (UTC)


 * @Spskeldon this article is badly sourced. But I'm wondering if you are referring to the last century or? Doug Weller  talk 11:23, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

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