| Organization name | Mattaponi indians |
| Other names | Mattahony;Mattapony |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | Mattahony, Mattapony. The Mattaponi homeland bordered the river named after them in eastern Virginia. This Algonquian-speaking people were culturally similar to another Virginian tribe, the Pamunkey. They were members of the powerful Powhatan Chiefdom of the early 17th century, which frequently interacted with the Jamestown settlement. The Mattaponi not only endured an attack during Bacon’s Rebellion, but also continued to remain on and defend the rights to their original land in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1843 they defeated the Gregory Petition, a proposed law that sought to remove their sovereign status as Indians. The neighboring Pamunkey Baptist Church was founded in 1865, which many Mattaponi attended. |
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804