309th Spotswood Treaty Tribute, April 22, 2022

On April 22, 2022, Chief Walt Red Hawk Brown and other tribal citizens of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe of Southampton County Virginia presented the 309th year Spotswood Treaty Tribute of three Peace Arrows wrapped  in a Beaver Pelt with a Wampum Belt to Virginia’s Governor, the Honorable Glenn Youngkin. The tribes’s Spotswood treaty with the Crown of England  was let between Virginia’s provisional Lieutenant  Governor Alexander Spotswood and the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian King, Ouracoorass Teerher, aka William Edmonds, on February  27, 1713 and is presented to the Governor of Virginia on or before Saint George Day which falls on April 23. 
Please contact Chief Brown for additional information germane to the Treaty Tribute.