As governor of Virginia ( 1780 – 1781 ) during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson recommended forcibly moving Cherokee and Shawnee tribes that fought on the British side to lands west of the Mississippi River.

Powhatan controlled more than 30 smaller tribes and over 150 settlements, who shared a common Virginia Algonquian language.

In 1750 Christopher Gist, acting on behalf of both Virginia and the company, explored the Ohio territory and opened negotiations with the Indian tribes at Logstown.

In other cases, such as in South Carolina, Virginia, and New England, the need for alliances with native tribes coupled with the availability of enslaved Africans at affordable prices ( beginning in the early 18th century for these colonies ) resulted in a shift away from Native American slavery.

The Research Group is a collaborative effort of the College of William and Mary, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and Virginia Indian tribes descended from the Powhatan Confederacy.

The Eastern Panhandle region was also used as a hunting ground by several other Indian tribes, including the Shawnee ( then known as the Shawanese ) who resided near present-day Winchester, Virginia and Moorefield, West Virginia until 1754 when they migrated into Ohio.

For the remainder of the war, smaller raiding parties of Mingo, Shawnee, and other Indian tribes terrorized settlers throughout northern and eastern West Virginia.

By the time of English colonization, there were 32 Algonquian-speaking American Indian tribes in the present-day coastal Tidewater Virginia area, including those of the Patawomeck and numerous tribes that were part of the Powhatan Confederacy.

See Native American tribes in Virginia

A part of Monacan country upon the arrival of English settlers in Virginia, the region had traditionally been occupied by them and other Siouan Tutelo-speaking tribes since ca.

Numerous Native Americans of the Chickahominy and the Eastern Chickahominy tribes ( both groups are officially recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia ) still live in the county.

Many of the local groups and districts took names of historic Virginia Indian tribes in the state.

* Siouan District ( named after the language spoken by historic Virginia Indian tribes in the Piedmont )

In response, Virginia Governor Patrick Henry authorized George Rogers Clark to raise the Kentucky militia and mount an expedition against the warring tribes.

The river was named after the Appamatuck Virginia Indian tribe, one of the Algonquian-speaking Powhatan Confederacy, historically based in the coastal area and encountered by the English before the tribes of the Piedmont.

The area of what is now southern West Virginia was long a hunting ground for nomadic tribes of Native-Americans before the arrival of Europeans in the 17th century.

King Philip's War joined the Powhatan wars of 1610 – 14, 1622 – 32 and 1644 – 46 in Virginia, the Pequot War of 1637 in Connecticut, the Dutch-Indian war of 1643 along the Hudson River and the Iroquois Beaver Wars of 1650 in a list of ongoing uprisings and conflicts between various Native American tribes and the French, Dutch, and English colonial settlements of Canada, New York, and New England.

* Historian Robert Beverley, Jr., in his History and Present State of Virginia ( 1705 ), wrote that the " priests and conjurers " of the Virginia Indian tribes " perform their adorations and conjurations " in the Occaneechi language, much " as the Catholics of all nations do their Mass in the Latin.

The Beaver Wars joined the Powhatan wars of 1610 – 14, 1622 – 32 and 1644 – 46 in Virginia, the Pequot War of 1637 in Connecticut, the Dutch-Indian War of 1643 along the Hudson River and King Philip's War in a list of ongoing uprisings and conflicts between various Native American tribes and the French, Dutch, and English colonial settlements of Canada, New York, and New England.

Writing about tribes in Virginia in 1705, Robert Beverley, Jr. of Virginia Colony describes peak as referring to the white shell bead, valued at 9 pence a yard, and wampom peak as denoting specifically the more expensive dark purple shell bead, at the rate of 1 shilling and 6 pence ( 18 pence ) per yard.

Historians say the Virginia courts executed between 26 and 35 slaves.

In 1943 the Supreme Court reversed its decision, ruling in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that public school students are not required to say the Pledge, concluding that " compulsory unification of opinion " violates the First Amendment.

As the story goes, he had a habit of reaching out and grabbing things, and on doing so his mother Virginia would say, " Spanky, spanky, mustn't touch!

According to Clancy and Yorkshire ( 1989 ), Bandler and Grinder say that they studied Perls's utterances on tape and observed a second therapist, Virginia Satir, to produce what they termed the meta model, a model for gathering information and challenging a client's language and underlying thinking.

The weroance Chief Powhatan told Captain Smith about his Virginia Peninsula-based Powhatan Confederacy, and went on to say that he had wiped out the Roanoke colonists just prior to the arrival of the Jamestown settlers because they were living with the Chesepian, a tribe living in the eastern portion of the present-day South Hampton Roads sub-region who, besides having refused to join Chief Powhatan's Powhatan Confederacy, were also prophesied to rise up and destroy his empire.

Other sources say the County was named for Lee County, Virginia, or for Henry " Light Horse Harry " Lee.

Some sources say veteran prospector Truman H. Aldrich assembled these lands as part of his extensive coal properties, others cite two red-headed brothers, George and E. T. Shuler as having opened the Virginia Mine in 1902.

Others say the Virginian settlers may have been honoring Bowling Green, Virginia.

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U. S. 624 ( 1943 ), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protected students from being forced to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance in school.

Contrary to what some say is " inconsistency ", the background is referencing the brand name of Camel as opposed to the type of tobacco blend in the pack ( Turkish, mixed with Virginia ).

The most detailed scholarly study of Bermudian English, in 1933, stated that this type of speech " would create least remark, if indeed any, between, say, Norfolk, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina "; British-Bermudian actor Earl Cameron noted that because the Bermudian accent sounded American, he was able to land a speaking role in 1942.

He described it, a costly rarity, in his Natural History of Carolina, as Chamaedaphne foliis tini, that is to say " with leaves like the Laurustinus "; the botanist and plant-collector John Collinson, who had begged some of the shrub from his correspondent John Custis in Virginia, wrote, when his plants flowered, that " I Really Think it exceeds the Laurus Tinus.

Virginia Woolf praised his gift for seizing on telling detail: " it is no disparagement to a writer to say that his gift is for the small things rather than for the large … If you are faithful with the details the large effects will grow inevitably out of those very details ".

Officials say Harris died instantly he hit a tree while driving north on Interstate 85 in Brunswick County, Virginia.

David and Nathan were both cadets at the Virginia Military Institute, which is why they say " This is the true story of seven people " instead of " seven strangers " in the opening sequence.

He was born in, according to some sources, Bourbon County, Kentucky, but other sources say that he was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, and moved to Kentucky in 1818.

They buried the hatchet when Virginia went into renal failure and Blanche offered her kidney to her sister, but their relationship became strained once more after their argument after Big Daddy's death in which Virginia accused Blanche of being too selfish and self-centered to say goodbye to her own father.

It would be fair to say that the two towns are " lost " to Virginia, albeit for purposes of national defense.

The Electoral College had been expanded with the admission of Kansas, West Virginia, and Nevada as free-soil states, but the electoral process was disrupted by the Civil War.

Electric service was disrupted in areas of Virginia for several days, some more rural areas were without electricity for weeks, and local flooding caused thousands of dollars in damage.

Tens of thousands of slaves, mostly in the South, took advantage of the war's chaos to escape, so many that the plantations were disrupted in South Carolina and Virginia, especially.