Tribes

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) are the descendants of the Cherokee people who remained in their ancestral homelands in the mountains of western North Carolina, resisting the forced relocation known as the Trail of Tears in the 1830s.

The Pamunkey Indian Tribe is one of the most historically significant indigenous nations on the East Coast. Long before English settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607, the Pamunkey were the most powerful tribe within the great Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom, which encompassed over 30 Algonquian-speaking tribes in the Chesapeake Bay region. Chief Powhatan and his famous daughter, Pocahontas, were both of Pamunkey descent.

For over 14,000 years, the Coquille people flourished in the coastal and inland regions of southwestern Oregon, encompassing more than one million acres of bountiful forests and rivers.