The Confederation of Yesah-Saponi Tribes, Bands and Families of Virginia
For thousands of years Yesah people lived in the majority of the state of Virginia. We lied in hundreds of villages such as Occoneechee, Saponi, Tutelo (Totaro), Monacan, Metaponski, Manahoac, Monacan, Occoneechee, Saponi, Tutelo, Cheraw (Sara), Hoonthymiha, Monasukapanough, Mawseeuntkey, Stukena (Stukanoe), Eno, Quiawae and more.
It is hard to exterminate a people, as the white supremacists tried to do in order to steal our land. It is all about DNA science. Life has built into it natural survival mechanisms that are far more powerful and complex than one groups desire to ethnic cleanse another group. Thus our DNA still persist strong in thousands of people in Virginia. We are still here and only require organization and leadership in order to remember who we are, to organize, and to reclaim all that is rightfully ours in our homeland.
As we show on our The Yesah-Saponi Descendants Association (YSDA) page, there are tens of thousands of Yesah descendants still living in Virginia. Many of these people have begun forming into tribes in recent decades. Each of these tribes, bands, or families are separate and independent entities. There is no hierarchy where one group is under another. That is European thinking.
The Confederation of Yesah-Saponi Tribes, Bands, and Families of Virginia is an organization formed to recognize one another as Yesah people and to ally and organize tribal efforts and bands together, just as our ancestors were allied and worked together.
The Occoneechee, Saponi, Totaro Indian Tribe of the Saponi Reservation recognizes the following tribes, families, and communities as Native American people native to the single land mass of America (the American continent).
Native American power is the most powerful force on the American continent. However, today we lack organization. As Malcolm X said, we are not out numbered we are out organized. Natives make up 67% of the population of the single land mass of America. And I am not speaking of so called Natives with 99% DNA of other races. I am speaking of Natives with significant Native DNA as reflected in their DNA. Native American is a unique race as shown here and the Yesah territory of the state of Virginia is populated with tens of thousands of Natives.
The goal is to reach out to the tens of thousands of other Yesah people and help then reconnect to their Native roots before their families become too mixed with other races that they for all intents and purposes are no longer Native. Part of the extermination efforts of the white supremacists was to get us to forget who we are, label Natives as African and have us Natives mix with African people generation after generation until the Native identity and DNA literally did not exist any more. Why? It is all about the land.
This was started with Walter Pleckler in the early 1900's and it has been successful in exterminating many Native communities. This is nothing new, Thomas Jefferson had a plan to breed Natives out of existence by intermixing us with white people. If there are no more Natives, in our case no more Yesah Natives in VA, our stolen Yesah native land could easily be maintained free and clear in their hands in perpetuity.
As we bring our Virginia Yesah Native people together and get organized we will reach out to other Yesah Natives in other states and organize with them and then we shall organize with other tribes nationally, and then we will help the 65 million Southern Natives to get organized. And as the Native population in the USA has exploded and will have us as the majority in the USA by the end of this century it is imperative that we get organized.
Below are some of the families, communities and tribes that the Occoneechee, Saponi, Totaro Indian Tribe of the Saponi Reservation recognizes:
The Nyhassan-Saponi Community of Pittsylvania County
The Shackoconian-Saponi of Cedar Mountain descend from the Yesah people who lived in what is now Virginia.
The Occoneechee Band of Buffalo Junction VA
Manahoac Indian Tribe of Virginia
Wicocomico Saponi of Bracey Virginia
Occoneechee-Cheraw Coles Band of Boydton
The Occoneechee-Cheraw Band of Boydton Virginia are Yesah people who have been living in the Boydton, Skipwith, Finchley, Clarksville area since the 1600's and before.
Though each tribe or band is independent, each is free to recognize, organize, and associate with any of the others as little or as much as desired.
It is therefore critical to be careful and cautious in what you do or say on social media. Fights, conflict, and enemies are easy to make in Indian Country and very difficult to resolve. Your tribe or family wants to be able to work with as many others in this organization and Indian Country as possible. If you or your family become controversial, others in this group may recognize you but stay at a distance and not work with you so as not to get sucked into your drama. Therefore, be conservative in what you say and do. Do not share every thought, opinion, or piece of evidence you have on social media.