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North Carolina History Digital Textbook Project

We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region

From the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

3.3 Issue 1: Primary resources

XVI. That every Indian King and Queen in the month of March every yeare with some of theire great men tender their obedience to the R’t Honourable his Majesties Govern’r at the place of his residence, wherever it shall be, and then and there pay the accustomed rent of twentie beaver skinns, to the Govern’r and alsoe their quit rent aforesaid, in acknowledgment that they hold their Crownes, and Lands of the great King of England.

Article XVI of 1677 treaty between Virginia and the Indians.

Article XVI of the 1677 treaty between Virginia and the Indians. From the Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division. About the photograph

Black and white photograph of Pamunkey Indians presenting a deer to the governor of Virginia, circa 1928.

Pamunkey presentation of annual tribute to the Governor of Virginia, circa 1928. Pictured from left to right are Walter Bradby, Theodora Dennis Cook, Chief George Major Cook, Governor Harry Byrd, Pocahontas Cook, Willy Bradby, James Bradby, and Duckie Page. Photograph courtesy of Warren Cook and Joyce Krigsvold. About the photograph

Photograph of Pamunkey Indians presenting a deer as tribute to Virginia governor, 2003.

Photograph of Pamunkey Indians presenting a deer as tribute to Virginia governor, 2003. Pictured from left to right are Robert Gray, Pamunkey Chief William P. Miles, Governor Mark Warner, Pamunkey Assistant Chief Warren Cook, Gary Miles, and Jeff Brown. Photo by R. A. Whiteside. Courtesy of Pamunkey tribe and the National Museum of the American Indian. About the photograph

Study question for primary resources:

What is significant about the fact that there are images of the annual tribute from both the early and late twentieth century?