Who We Are?

We are the people of The Kiskiack Chickahominy Tribe, and our tribe was created out of two tribal groups, The Kiskiack and The Chickohominy Group, which were both of the Powhatan Confederacy.

The Kiskiack is a Native American tribe of the Powhatan Confederacy in what is now the president day York County Virginia. The name means ” wide land or bread place ” in the native language and is one of the most Algonquian languages in Virginia. It was one of their Village on the Virginia peninsula in the middle of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. The Kisack tribe was part of the large Powhatan Confederacy near the South Bank of the York River on the Virginia Peninsula that extended into the Chesapeake Bay.

The Kiskiack was one of the original six tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy that had built permanent Villages made up of numerous longhouses or s, in which related families would live with both private and communal space. They merged with and intermarried with other tribes. By 1649 the Kiskiack had settled along the Plankatank River when the English granted Weroance Oassakican or Wassatickon a reservation of 5000 Acres. In 1651 they exchanged this land for another five Thousand Acre track further upriver.

There were 30 tribes in the Confederacy. The Kiskiack Cheif, or Werowance, was Ottahotin with about 40 to 50 warriors. The Kecoughton Native Americans, Led by chef Potchins, were settled in Hampton, VA. Before the English settlement, Pochins was the young son of chief Powhatan ( wahunsenacawh ) or ( wahunsunacock ) Around 1597.

Alankian was the chief of the Kiskiack tribe, born in 1520 and died in 1600 in Virginia.