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American Indian Resource Center

Virginia Indian Oral History Project

During the summer of 2000, three anthropology students from the College of William and Mary, Rebecca Costanzo, Erin Gaffney, and Amy Cadge, gathered information from tribal leaders from the eight state-recognized tribes for the Virginia Indian Oral History Project.

The oral history project was suggested by the late Thomasina E. Jordan, in her capacity as chair of the Virginia Council on Indians and conducted under the direction of Dr. Danielle Moretti-Langholtz. The students videotaped interviews with the respective chiefs on a range of topics both past and present.

All interviews were transcribed and edited into the 37-minute documentary titled, In Our Own Words: Voices of Virginia Indians. This documentary received a Certificate of Commendation in September 2003 from the American Association for State and Local History. Financial support for the documentary was given by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, and the Department of Anthropology.

The documentary is available here. (for educational use only)