Tenginateo

The Tegninateo were one of the peoples associated with the Manahoac of northern Virginia. Their country lay near the headwaters of the Rappahannock, west of the falls that separated the inland rivers from the coastal plain. John Smith recorded the Manahoac in 1608, identifying several groups among them. They were allied with the Monacan and at war with the Powhatan to the east. Later seventeenth-century records cease to name the Manahoac clearly, as warfare and displacement changed the communities of the interior.