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Plains. It is thought that that both had moved east from the Ohio area at some point. While the Monacans were actually located somewhat south of present day Rappahannock County, they are of interest to us because of their connections to the Manahoacks and because even today they are a small but active tribe centered in Amherst County and thus actually in a position to explore not only their heritage but also our own. Both tribes were distinguished from their neighbors not only by language. The Algonquins of Tidewater (of Chief Powhatan and Pocahontas fame) and the Susquhannocks and Iroquois to the north were enemies of the Manahoacks and Monacan even before the coming of the White Eyes’.

Beyond these few basics, much of the knowledge about our early residents must be drawn by extrapolation from findings at the Thunderbird Archaeological site on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River below Front Royal. This site, discovered by amateur archaeologists in the 1970s, has proven to be one of the richest in

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