The Coarse-Pounded Corn People

On a bright winter afternoon in 2004, my colleague Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and I crossed the Chickahominy River and drove anxiously from Williamsburg toward the Chickahominy Tribal Center. We were late for a meeting with the Chickahominy tribal chief Stephen Adkins and assistant chief Wayne Adkins to discuss the Chickahominy River Survey. Conducted by William and Mary archaeologists during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the survey identified over a hundred Native sites along the banks and bluffs of the Chickahominy River. More than simply an effort to find archaeological sites along the river, the project sought to identify and excavate