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Many years before the palefaces came, the Chickahominies were a great nation, reaching to the foot of the Blue Mountains, and then were they and the Ricahecrians friends and allies.
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903
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"Very welcome to the Chickahominies is the face of the white father, who rules in the place of the great white father across the sea.
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903
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Chickahominies, again refused to send any provisions to Jamestown, and again the colonists faced a famine.
Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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Following the massacre of 1622, the natives were relentlessly driven from their villages and fields -- the Warriscoyacks, the Nansemonds, the Chickahominies and in 1630, the Chiskiackes.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester
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Powhatans, the other of Chickahominies, stride down the open space below her and form a lane of naked, painted human walls.
The Princess Pocahontas Virginia Watson 1904
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Chickahominies, leaped ashore, twenty to each huge dugout; and though her dignity would not permit her to call out derisively, as did the crowd, to the three prisoners each boat contained, she looked eagerly to see what kind of monsters these enemies of her tribe might be.
The Princess Pocahontas Virginia Watson 1904
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Chickahominies and Massawomekes, up to the dais where her father sat, and crouched down on a mat spread on raised hurdles at his feet, where she could observe all that went on.
The Princess Pocahontas Virginia Watson 1904
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Wahunsunakuk, Chief of the Powhatans and many tribes, am the trunk, and one of my many branches is that of the Chickahominies and one that is very close to my heart.
The Princess Pocahontas Virginia Watson 1904
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Another darkness, and I was captive to the Chickahominies, tied to the stake.
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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Paspaheghs, and not the village of the Chickahominies, had been our destination, and since leaving the block house we had made good speed; but now, within the usual girdle of mulberries, we were met by the werowance and his chief men with the customary savage ceremonies.
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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