Chickahominy
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The Chickahominy are a Native American people who primarily reside near the Chickahominy River in the central Tidewater region of Virginia. They are an Algonquian-speaking people and were present in the area when English colonists founded Jamestown in 1607.1
The Chickahominy River itself is a geographical feature, approximately 90 miles (145 kilometers) long, flowing southeast into the James River in eastern Virginia.2
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