Accawmackes: Past and Modern Day

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In 1950, after fighting in World War II, having fought in all American Wars including the Revolutionary War, the Accawmacke Indians experienced economic and racial oppression in Northampton County. The Accawmacke Indian veterans failed to receive the benefits they were promise. As a result, many families, neighbors, friends of various Accawmacke Indian clans were forced way from their homelands in Virginia to various places all over the world.  Most notably the Accawmackes were forced to move to NYC, NJ, PA, DE and MD.  Yet many of today’s Accawmackes have both parents from the Accawmackes and all four grandparents, etc.

The Accawmackes have always been a patriotic people, fighting in every American war to this date.  They are a people who love their indigenous homeland America.  This evidenced by the fact that several Accawmacke Indians fought for America as early as the Revolutionary War. 

In addition, the Accawmackes are known as people who have an entrepreneur spirit known as being experts in trade, farming, and fishing.  The Accawmackes saw and see the benefit to business negotiations with the English. 

Unfortunately, the American Indians underestimated the level of desperate measures the Europeans would take to steal America and profit from its wealth of both human and natural resources.  The Accawmake Indians never waged nor participated in war against the Colonist and therefore signed no treaties and make no tribute to the Virginia Company or USA Corporation. 

Today, The beaches on bay on which the Accawmacke used to crab, fish and swim were now blocked for years with “PRIVATE and NO TRESPASSING” signs those Beaches while the gigantic Sand Dunes that were previously in Savage Neck on the Bayside Sands were excavated and scraped causing trees to topple over. What happened to the   reported stolen Sand Dunes on Barges and Trucks? No one cared about the Destruction of The Environment and Ecosystem.  

People in Northampton see Accawmacke Indians and pass them by each day as ordinary African Americans.  Some believe the Accawmacke Indians are of mixed-American Indian / Tri Racial ancestry.  Yet, genealogy proves that most Accawmacke Indians are nearly or completely full-blooded Indians.  There were no AFRICans present on the Eastern Shore. Therefore, the American Indigenous Accawmackes Indians today claim their pre-colonial identity ,jurisdiction, freedom rights and heritage.

Accawmacke Indians obey the laws of America, respect and pledge unity and complete cooperation.  Foreign governments such as the United States of America, Inc., cannot assume the right to define, fine, tax, classify or identify indigenous civilized American Indians, such the American Indigenous Accawmacke Indians.

Accawmacke Indians of Today

The Accawmakes not only resided on the Gingaskin reservation; the majority of the Accawmacke Indians was reclassified by Virginia Law as Negro, Colored and Mulatto and lived off the reservation.  Many lived and still live to this day in the homeland and heritage land that belonged to their various Accawmacke Sub-Tribe and Clans, reclassified as African American.  The Accawmacke Indians numbered more than 5000 when the Europeans arrived. Today there are over 200 enrolled members.  Yet, there are an estimated 2000 people who are actually of the Accawmacke Indian bloodline.  Today when you meet an African American in Northampton, they may really be an authentic Indigenous American Accawmacke Indian. In fact, Accawmacke Indians are all around the world.