ABSTRACT
Today's Nansemonds are descended from an English-Nansemond marriage of 1638; the group has been Christianized since about that time. It received a Methodist mission in 1850, and though the church is now an independent United Methodist congregation, the church building serves as a place for tribai meetings. The tribe had its own county-supported grade school from the 1890s until about 1900, and again after a fight from 1922. Those living in the cities sent their children to white schools.
