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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER,
JR. LIBRARY
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION
P. O. Box 1776
GDDY GARDEN NEWS
Williamsburg, Virginia 2.,.
6
November 1999
Issue # 68
The earth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants
of man, spreads his walks with flowers, and his table with plenty,
returns with interest,
every good committed to her care."
Pliny the Elder
The after effects of hurricane Floyd are still being tallied throughout Virginia and
Farmers report that the peanut. corn, and soybean crops were
along the East Coast.
damaged and production was low and the quality of the cotton crop suffered as well.
experienced
our
first
frost
of the
season
on
November
temperatures have occasionally reached into the 70s.
3,
We
but since that day our
The foliage
with its vivid
hues
has
been signaling the approach of winter and I expect we will be welcoming coldest weather
any day now.
November is an interesting month because it offers so many important, special
occasion days.
Veterans Day, commemorates the sacrifices of military veterans in
In the past, it was called Armistice Day, celebrated on the anniversary of the
November
our country.
11,
armistice of World War I in 1918.
The name was changed to include the servicemen of all
branches of the military of our country. The same day, November 11, has for centuries been
observed as Martinmas or St. Martin' s Day. St. Martin of Tours is a patron saint of France.
He was the son of a military officer and he had himself enlisted in the military at age 15. He
is known as the patron saint of military chaplains. It is most significant that the two
celebrations are observed on the same day. We presented a program here, in Colonial
Williamsburg, on Veterans Day to include and honor our visitors who in the past have
served or are presently serving in any of our military forces.
November 1999 has been proclaimed by President Clinton as National American
Indian Heritage Month.
first environmentalists.
We recognize the many contributions of the American Indians, our
In Virginia there are 20, 000 Native Americans today. There are
eight tribes and two Indian Reservations
in the Commonwealth,
the Mattaponi
and the
Pamunkey. The Mattaponi Reservation was established in 1658 along the borders of the
Mattaponi River in King William County, Virginia.
Reservation.
Only 75 members still live on the
The Upper Mattaponi tribe of 100 members are non- reservated Indians located
in the Mechanicville area.
�The Pamunkey Indian Reservation serves as the home for approximately 100
members who still live on the 1, 200 acre reservation located in King William County.
The
Pamunkey tube was among the 34 tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy of the 17th century.
Another tribe of the Confederacy is the Nansemond Tribe of Chesapeake, Virginia.
population of 300.
It has a
Approximately 1, 000 members of the Chichahominy Tribe live in Charles City
County with 150 members in the Eastern Chicahominy Tribe in nearby New Kent County.
There
is the United
Rappahannak
Tribe which
owns
21
acres
of land
in Indian
Neck, King and Queen County, Virginia.
The eighth tribe is the Monacan Tribe which today numbers 700 members.
It is the
most western of the eight tribes, located in Bear Mt, in Amherst County and was not ever a
member of the Powhatan confederacy.
All of these tribes observe separate heritage festivals throughout the year.
Some of
the ceremonies are rituals that relate to the three crops known as the three sisters of Indian
The word squash derives from an Indian word,
bean, and squash.
lore, maize.
asquutasquash,
which
means
uncooked
or raw.
Some
of the Indian
tribes
observe
Fall
harvest festivals.
As I write this, members of the Mattaponi Tribe are in the woods hunting a deer to
present to our Virginia Governor. This Thanksgiving custom began in 1646, when the
Mattaponi Indians first presented a gift of game or fish to the Governor of the
Commonwealth and the custom has been carried on ever since, as a gesture of Thanksgiving
and good will.
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the
region offorest, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the
landscape, for the hand that fashiated the contbteit, also fashioned
the nOnl for his sunvu Jings. He once grew as naturally as the wild
sweaters.
He bekiigs just as the buffalo belonged."
Luther Standing Bear
Oglala Sioux Chief
Janet Guthrie
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The Geddy Garden News was a monthly newsletter produced by employee Janet Guthrie who worked for many years as a garden interpreter at the James Geddy House. The Library holds a partial run of this newsletter (issues 33-114 with some gaps) for the years 1996-2003. The newsletter ceased publication in 2003 upon Guthrie’s retirement.
Subjects covered most often in the newsletters are 18th century gardens, gardening publications, gardens of the Founding Fathers, plant uses, early and pre-Christian folklore, and seasonal customs. Much good and interesting information is found within these newsletters, but current users should be alert for some now archaic interpretive sources, Latin errors, and cultural generalizations, especially with Native peoples/nations of North America which are often treated as one culture instead of many.
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Guthrie, Janet
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Geddy Garden News, no. 68, November, 1999
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Guthrie, Janet
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