Indigenous History at the Rappahannock Fall Line: Jason Sellers, Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington Department of History and American Studies
The area surrounding today’s Fredericksburg was traditionally home to multiple Indigenous nations, most notably the Patawomeck, Rappahannock, and Manahoac Indians. This Washington Heritage Museums Speaker Series lecture will focus on Indigenous experiences with English colonialism across the 17th and early 18th centuries, considering how Natives adapted their traditional lifeways and social interactions to their new neighbors. It will also address the diminishing visibility of Virginia’s Native peoples later in the colonial period, and their reemergence in the 20th century.