Virginia Indian Language Groups and Tribes

This language was spoken by the tribes in the Piedmont Region between the Fall Line and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

• Siouan

• Iroquoian

• Algonquian

This language was spoken by the tribe in Southwestern Virginia and in Southern Virginia near the border of North Carolina.

• Siouan

• Iroquoian

• Algonquian

This language was spoken by tribes in the Coastal Plain Region of Virginia.

• Siouan

• Iroquoian

• Algonquian

Three Native American tribes from Virginia include...

• Columbus, Washington, Jefferson

• Hopi, Eskimo, Pueblo

• Cherokee, Monacan, Powhatan

• Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan

The three Native American Languages spoken in Virginia were....

• Cherokee, Monacan, Powhatan

• English, Spanish, French

• Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan

Who were the first people to live in Virginia?

• Spanish

• French

• English

• Native Americans

What is the name of the explorer who arrived in the Americans and called the people he found there Indians?

• John Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

• Marco Polo

• Vasco da Gama

The Monacan tribe spoke the

• Siouan Language

• Iroquoian Language

• Algonquian Language

The Cherokee Tribe spoke the

• Siouan Language

• Iroquoian Language

• Algonquian Language

The Powhatan tribe spoke the

• Siouan Language

• Iroquoian Language

• Algonquian Language