The document provides information on several Native American tribes indigenous to the Chesapeake region:
- The Pamunkey tribe resides on the Pamunkey River reservation in Virginia and are descendants of the Powhatan chiefdom.
- The Rappahannock, Mattaponi, Chickahominy, Nanticoke, Nansemond, Monacan and Piscataway tribes also originally inhabited various areas near rivers and the Chesapeake Bay, interacting with early English settlers and losing lands over time.
- The document details aspects of tribal governments, histories, populations and current locations. It traces the displacement and cultural changes experienced by these tribes due to European colon
