Doeg people
Native American religion | |
Related ethnic groups | |
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Nanticoke, Pamunkey, Chickahominy |
The Doeg (also called Dogue, Taux, Tauxenent)
Background
The Doeg (or Dogue) tribe of Virginia were part of the coastal Algonquian language family. They probably spoke Piscataway or a dialect similar to Nanticoke.
According to one account, the Doeg had been based in what is now King George County, but about 50 years before the founding of Jamestown (ca. 1557), they split into three sections, with groups going to Caroline County and Prince William County, and one remaining in King George.[2]: 4
When
John Lederer, who visited the Piedmont region of Virginia in 1670, wrote that the entire area had been
"formerly possessed by the Tacci, alias Dogi, but... the Indians now seated here, are distinguished into the several nations of
Monakin etc."[3]
Further, "The Indians now seated in these parts are none of those whom the English removed from Virginia, but a people driven by the enemy from the northwest, and invited to sit down here by an oracle above four hundred years since, as they pretend for the ancient inhabitants of Virginia were far more rude and barbarous, feeding only upon raw flesh and fish, until they taught them to plant corn..."[3]
Frontier
In the 1650s, as English colonists began to settle the
Tensions between English colonists and the Doeg on the Northern Neck continued to grow. In July 1675, a Doeg raiding party crossed the Potomac and stole hogs from Thomas Mathew, in retaliation for his not paying them for trade goods. Mathew and other colonists pursued them to Maryland and killed a group of Doeg, as well as innocent Susquehannock. A Doeg war party retaliated by killing Mathew's son and two servants on his plantation.[4]
A Virginian militia led by
"Welsh" identity
A centuries long investigation into the existence of “
A clergyman of Welsh origins, the Reverend Morgan Jones, told
See also a prior similar confusion of a neighboring Native American people’s tongue with Welsh in 1608 among the
Legacy
Dogue, Virginia is named in honor of this tribe. Dogue Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia is also named after this tribe.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8061-2849-8. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- ^ ISBN 9780875170398. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- ^ a b Alvord, Clarence Walworth; Bidgood, Lee (1912). The first explorations of the Trans-Allegheny region by the Virginians, 1650–1674. Arthur H. Clark. p. pp. 141-142. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- ISBN 978-1-60732-308-2.
- ^ Owen, Nicholas (1777). British remains: or, A collection of antiquities relating to the Britons. J. Bew. p. 110. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-413-39450-7. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-472-08346-6p. 163