Unofficial and Former Tribes
- Ani-Stohini/Unami -
- Occaneechi - descendants are recognized in North Carolina as the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
- Paspahegh - descendants are members of various Powhatan tribes recognized by Virginia
- Tutelo - descendants are part of the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation in Canada and the federally recognized Cayuga Nation of New York
- Westo - extinct as a tribe
- Wicocomico - the Wicocomico Indian Nation have members in Arizona and Virginia; they have neither state or federal recognition
- Manahoac- extinct as a tribe
- Meherrin - descendants are recognized in North Carolina as the Meherrin Nation
- Doeg - Extinct as a tribe
- Saponi people - possible descendants are recognized in North Carolina as the Haliwa-Saponi
- Shawnee- descendants have a federally recognized tribe in Oklahoma
- Iroquois- federally recognized tribes in Canada and New York state of the Six Nations
- Cherokee - no tribe is recognized in Virginia; the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia is petitioning for state recognition; Cherokee tribes are federally recognized in North Carolina and Oklahoma
- Chisca - Extinct as a tribe
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