Peninsula In Passage

Nansemonds

Long before the earliest European explorations, the Nansemonds lived along the waterways of North Suffolk, farming, fishing, hunting and developing a strong family-based culture. Over the last 400 years, since their contact with Captain John Smith, the tribe has been displaced from its ancestral lands and pushed into near oblivion by speculators, soldiers and settlers. Deprived of their lifestyle, identity and means of support, surviving remnants of the tribe adapted to an alien culture and continue to struggle to re establish their heritage and place in history today.

Redtailed hawks fly over Lonestar Lakes, the ancestoral home of the Nansemond Indians

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