| Official Name: | Pamunkey Indian Reservation, Virginia | ||||||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom | ||||||||||||
| Pushpin Label: | Pamunkey | ||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name: | United States | ||||||||||||
| Leader Title: | Chief | ||||||||||||
| Leader Name: | Robert Gray [1] | ||||||||||||
| Established Title: | Established | ||||||||||||
| Established Date: | 1658 | ||||||||||||
| Area Total Km2: | 4.8 | ||||||||||||
| Area Land Km2: | 2.8 | ||||||||||||
| Area Water Km2: | 2.0 | ||||||||||||
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.9 | ||||||||||||
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.1 | ||||||||||||
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.8 | ||||||||||||
| Population As Of: | 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Population Total: | 80 | ||||||||||||
| Population Density Km2: | 16.7 | ||||||||||||
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 42.1 | ||||||||||||
| Utc Offset: | -5 | ||||||||||||
| Timezone Dst: | EDT | ||||||||||||
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 | ||||||||||||
| Elevation M: | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Elevation Ft: | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 37.5747°N -77.0014°W | ||||||||||||
| Postal Code: | 23806 | ||||||||||||
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The Pamunkey Indian Reservation is a Native American reservation of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe in King William, Virginia, United States. It lies along the Pamunkey River in King William County, Virginia on the Middle Peninsula. It contains approximately 1200acres of land, 500acres of which is wetlands with numerous creeks. Thirty-four families reside on the reservation and many Tribal members live in nearby Richmond, Newport News, and other parts of Virginia.
It was confirmed to the Pamunkey tribe as early as 1658 by the governor, the council, and the General Assembly of Virginia. The treaty of 1677 between the king of England, acting through the governor of Virginia, and several Native American tribes including the Pamunkey is the most important existing document describing Virginia's relationship to Indian land. The Pamunkey tribe's early ancestors had locations as far north as the Middle Peninsula of Virginia and as far south as South Hampton Roads in Virginia. A burial mound, reported to contain the remains of Chief Powhatan, father of Matoaka (better known to historians as Pocahontas), is also on this reservation, next to railroad tracks. His brother Opechancanough relocated his remains here. He is also buried here.