Mattaponi

Yeah.

There's so many great Indigenous people around here, Pamunkey and Mattaponi, that I just feel bad for them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Some scholars argue that the English could not have known this and made the claim because Pocahontas appeared to show favor for the English.

The name of Pocahontas's mother is not mentioned in English sources, but according to the native history, she was a woman from the Mattaponi tribe, one of the six original tribes of the Powhatan nations, and she was also named Pocahontas.

She was Wahunseneca's first wife and married him before he became chief.

Therefore, he did not marry her for political reasons, but for love.

Bill Dayo, on the other hand, claims that Pocahontas's mother was a woman named Winganusake, one of Wahunseneca's 12 wives mentioned by the Englishman William Strachey in his 1612 account, The History of Travail into Virginia Brittania.

If this were the case, then Pocahontas's mother could not have died in childbirth.

While Pocahontas is generally believed to have been born in the village of Werowocomoco, her father's capital, on the north bank of the York River, opposite the narrow Virginia Peninsula, the Mattaponi tradition claims that she was born at her mother's native village between the Pamunkey and the Mattaponi Rivers, two of the main tributaries of the York River.

This would explain her name, Matoaka, which probably meant flower between two streams.

Today, I'm joined by some of my beloved friends and special guests, Suzanne Brown and Chief Adkins of the Chickahominy Indian Tribe.

and Chief Adams of the Upper Mattapani Indian Tribe.

I'm going to ask our special guest to introduce themselves.

Suzanne, would you get started for us?

So I'm just wanting you to know that those actions that we take have been infused with the faith that we have in our creator.

And a follow to that is it does continue to bind us together.

I met with Chief Adams on Sunday, Chief Brown of the Pamunkey, and folks from Mattapani at a homecoming service.

And we could feel the kindred spirit.