- The
Tomahittan were
Native Americans whom
Virginians James Needham and
Gabriel Arthur tried to
contact to byp**** the
taxes of the
Occaneechi "middlemen"...
- The
protohistoric period of the
state of West
Virginia in the
United States began in the mid-sixteenth
century with the
arrival of
European trade goods...
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tried to
convince the
Tomahittan to kill Arthur, but instead, the
chief adopted him. For
about a year, Arthur—dressed like a
Tomahittan in Chota—traveled...
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referred to as
Cherokees and
going by
names such as Shenandoah, Canara****,
Tomahittan, Shattara, etc., as well as the Lenape, who had
claimed land
between the...
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rites in
these council houses. In 1673,
Gabriel Arthur sta**** with the
Tomahittan and
claimed that they had
members of the "Weesock"
tribe living among...
