Virginia Indian Heritage Day
Saturday, July 26, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Virginia Indian cultures and their important legacy in America will be honored during “Virginia Indian Heritage Day” at Jamestown Settlement on Saturday, July 26, with intertribal dance, cultural presentations, themed museum tours and hands-on children’s activities. Jamestown Settlement is a living-history museum of 17th-century Virginia.
Virginia Indian leaders also will deliver two presentations: “Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Yesterday and Today” at 11:15 a.m. by Karenne Wood, a member of the Monacan tribe and director of the Virginia Indian Heritage Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; and “Legacies of Jamestown” at 3 p.m. by Chickahominy Chief Stephen Adkins and Upper Mattaponi Chief Kenneth Adams.
Children can participate in craft projects at 9:30 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. that reflect cultural practices of Virginia Indian peoples, including turkey-feather fans, clay pinch-pots and beadwork.
Themed museum tours of Jamestown Settlement’s exhibition galleries and interpretive programs will focus on Powhatan Indian culture before English contact and through the 17th century. Gallery tours will begin at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
The British Museum’s collection of 16th-century watercolor drawings by John White, the earliest visual record by an Englishman of the flora, fauna and people of the New World, will be on display in Jamestown Settlement’s special exhibition gallery. The exhibition of White watercolors, “A New World: England’s First View of America,” is at Jamestown Settlement from July 15 to October 15.
Interpretive programs in the re-created Powhatan Indian village show the Powhatan way of life in the early 1600s, including methods of cooking, processing animal hides, making tools and pottery, and weaving natural fibers into cordage. In the riverfront discovery area, visitors can learn about Powhatan methods of fire starting, canoe making, fishing and trade. Ninety-minute orientation tours of the outdoor living-history areas, including re-creations of the three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607 and colonial fort, begin daily at 10 and 11 a.m., 12 noon, 1, 2, 3 and 3:30 p.m.
Jamestown Settlement is located at the intersection of State Route 31 and the Colonial Parkway. Operating hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily (until 6 p.m. June 15 through August 15). Admission is $13.50 for adults, and $6.25 for ages 6 through 12. Parking is free.
Schedule of Events
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10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Ninety-minute orientation tours of outdoor interpretive areas begin in the gazebo at 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Special focus will be given to the Powhatan culture in the re-created Powhatan Indian village and riverfront discovery area.
10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Thirty-minute gallery tours emphasize the Powhatan culture in the 17th century.
All Day
A New World: England’s First View of America Special Exhibition from the British Museum (Special Exhibition Gallery – #8)
Powhatan Cooking (Powhatan Indian Village – #1)
Powhatan Canoe Making and Food Preservation (Riverfront Discovery Area – #2)
9:30 a.m. Children’s Crafts and Activities (Boardwalk – #5)
9:30 a.m. Powhatan Tool Technology (Powhatan Indian Village – #1)
10:00 a.m. Comparative Fire Starting (Riverfront Discovery Area – #2)
10:30 a.m. Virginia Intertribal Drum and Dancers (Indian Dance Circle – #4)
11:00 a.m. Baking Fish in Clay (Riverfront Discovery Area – #2)
11:15 a.m. Virginia Indian Presentation: “Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Yesterday and Today” (Classrooms A and B – #6)
11:30 a.m. Powhatan Weapons Technology (Boardwalk – #9)
12:00 noon Powhatan Canoe Making(Riverfront Discovery Area – #2)
12:30 p.m. Powhatan Agriculture (Powhatan Indian Village – #1)
1:00 p.m. Fishing Technology (Riverfront Discovery Area – #2)
1:30 p.m. The Abundance of Corn (Powhatan Indian Village – #1)
2:00 p.m. Virginia Intertribal Drum and Dancers (Indian Dance Circle – #4)
2:00 p.m. Comparative Weapons (Riverfront Discovery Area – #2)
2:30 p.m. Native Plants (Boardwalk – #3)
2:45 p.m. Children’s Crafts and Activities (Boardwalk – #5)
3:00 p.m. Virginia Indian Dialogue: “Legacies of Jamestown” (Classrooms A and B – #6)
3:00 p.m. Making Copper Beads (Riverfront Discovery Area – #2)
3:30 p.m. Powhatan Pottery (Powhatan Indian Village – #1)
4:00 p.m. Comparative Technology (Riverfront Discovery Area – #2)
4:30 p.m. Powhatan Agriculture (Powhatan Indian Village – #1)
5:00 p.m. Trade (Riverfront Discovery Area – #2)
5:30 p.m. Powhatan Hunting Demonstration (Boardwalk – #9)
All Day Virginia Indian Vendors (Mall – #7)
Jamestown Settlement Café and Gift Shops open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Purchase tickets to
Jamestown Settlement
and the Yorktown Victory
Center online
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