Chickahominy people

The Chickahominy (pronounced tschicke ) are a people of Virginia Algonquian who live in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia, especially in the counties New Kent and Charles City.

While the arrival of English colonists in 1607, the Chickahominy allies of the chief Powhatan were.

Today the people out of about 750 people who live within a radius of about eight kilometers of the center in Charles City County, as well as several hundred, who are located in other regions of the United States is. The people were recognized in 1983 by the state of Virginia.