DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of Chesapeake:
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Description of Pictures: Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of Chesapeake
November 13, 2006 – Permanent
Through photographs, maps, ceremonial and everyday objects, and interactives, this small display provides an overview of the history of the Native peoples of the Chesapeake Bay region (what is now Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.) from the 1600s to the present day. The Native people of this region include the Nanticoke, Powhatan, and Piscataway tribes.
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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
AMINAL_150822_05.JPG: Return to a Native Place:
Algonquian Peoples of the Chesapeake
AMINAL_150822_10.JPG: Dark Days in the Chesapeake:
Broken Treaties and Overrun Reservations
AMINAL_150822_23.JPG: Revival
AMINAL_150822_29.JPG: Racial segregation laws barred Native children from attending white schools.
AMINAL_150822_33.JPG: Walter Plecker, State Registrar of Vital Statistics, wrote this letter in 1943 to enforce Virginia's laws banning Indian self-identification, which had been passed in the 1920s. Native people had to identify as "Negro," the terminology in use at the time for African Americans, which meant that they no longer could have access to Indian rights and that they would be subject to racist segregation policies.
AMINAL_150822_38.JPG: Forever Remembered:
The Native Chesapeake
AMINAL_150822_54.JPG: Holding On:
Strategies to Stay Native
AMINAL_150822_57.JPG: Knowing the Earth:
Chesapeake Native Identities
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