The Confederation of Yesah-Saponi Tribes, Bands and Families of Virginia

As we show in 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 the past 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.  Though each tribe or band is independent each is free to recognize, organize and associate with any of the other 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 and not to get sucked into your drama.  Therefore be conservative in what you say and do.  Do not share every thought and opinion or every piece of evidence that you have on social media.

The Confederation of Yesah-Saponi Tribes, Bands and Families of Virginia is an organization to recognize one another as Yesah people and ally and organize tribal efforts and bands together as our ancestors were allied together and work together

It is hard to exterminate a people as the Europeans tried to do in order to steal our land.  We are still here and only require organizing and leadership in order to remember who we are, to organize and to reclaim all that it is rightfully ours in our homeland.  

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)

  • The Shackoconian-Saponi of Cedar Mountain:

    The Shackoconian-Saponi of Cedar Mountain descend from the Yesah people who lived in what is now Virginia. They are part of the Yesah Nation which in 1492 included 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. Our Nation as pictured below covered the majority of the states of current day Virginia and North Carolina. 

  • Two Rivers Saponi-Occoneechee Association 


The Occoneechee Band of Buffalo Junction VA

Manahoac Indian Tribe of Virginia

 

Occoneechee-Cheraw Band of Yesah Nation

  • Cheraw