Manahoac
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Virginia, Maryland
Little is recorded about the river-oriented Manahoac tribe, who had a diversified subsistence base that included horticulture, hunting, trapping, fishing, and gathering of nuts, seeds, roots, and tubers. They wintered in permanent villages that were part of the Manahoac Confederacy, and there may have been seven tribes. They warred with the Iroquois and Powhatan and maintained an allegiance with the Monacan. Eventually the Manahoac were forced from their territory by the Susquehanna in the mid-seventeenth century.
John Smith was probably the first European American to observe the...
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