"I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me."
~Langston Hughes~
(The Black Man Speaks)

 


Simeon Collins family, (Pamunkey) with
"New Kent fringe" wife. 1899

 

"Every person in whom there is ascertainable any Negro blood shall be deemed and taken to be a colored person, and every person not a colored person having one-fourth or more of American Indian blood shall be deemed an American Indian; except that the members of Indian tribes living on a reservations allotted them by the Commonwealth having one-fourth or more of Indian blood and less then one-sixteenth of Negro blood shall be deemed tribal Indians so long as they are domiciled on such reservations."

-Racial Integrity Law, 1930

 




The Lee Major family (Mattaponi), 1900.

 


Thomas S. and Keziah Dennis (Pamunkeys), about the time of their marriage (1855).




Nansemond Indians, 1900. The oldest man is probably William W. Weaver;
man behind him is Augustus Bass.

 


William Terrill Bradby (Pamunkey) in his regalia, 1899.



More Pictures of Virginia Indians.