Cheroenhaka

Cheroenhaka is the Nottoway people's name for themselves. They spoke an Iroquoian language and lived near the Nottoway River, west of the falls that divide Virginia's inland country from its coastal plain. In 1650 the English explorer Edward Bland visited two of their towns, whose leaders were the brothers Oyeocker and Chounerounte. A Nottoway representative adhered to the Treaty of Middle Plantation in 1680, but English encroachment and warfare continued. The Nottoway moved southward and later received Weyanoke and Nansemond people into their community.