Pamunkey
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The Pamunkey are an Algonquian-speaking people from Virginia who were historically part of the Powhatan confederacy. They are one of the Native American groups in Virginia, with a small but significant presence in the state today. The Pamunkey people, along with the Mattaponi, maintain reservations situated along the rivers that bear their names. These groups are Algonquian-speaking, a language family that was prevalent in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time of European colonization.12
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