While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Manahoac (Algonquian: 'they
are very merry.' Tooker). A confederacy or group of small tribes or bands
possibly Siouan, in north Virginia, in 1608, occupying the country from
the falls of the rivers to the mountains and from the Potomac to North
Anna river. They were at war with the
Powhatan and
Iroquois, and in
alliance with the Monacan, but spoke a language different from any of
their neighbors. Among their tribes Smith mentions the Manahoac, Tanxnitania, Shackaconia, Ontponea, Tegninateo, Whonkenti, Stegaraki, and
Hassinunga, and says there were others. Jefferson confounded them
with the Tuscarora. Mahaskahod is the only one of their villages of
which the name has been preserved. Others may have borne the names
of the tribes of the confederacy. The Mahocks mentioned by Lederer
in 1669 seem to be identical to them.
See Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the East,
18, 1894.
Manahoac. A tribe or band of the
Manahoac group. According to Jefferson they lived on Rappahannock
river in Stafford and Spottsylvania Counties, Va.
