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The Sakochee Tribe was born from the forgotten margins of Native American history—where Indigenous identity met erasure, survival met silence, and mixed-blood descendants were left without a place to call home. We are the children of many nations, carrying the DNA of warriors, medicine people, settlers, and survivors.
Our name, Sakochee, is a union of ancestral echoes. It symbolizes the blending of heritage from Siouan, Algonquian, Iroquoian, Muskogean, and other Native bloodlines, mixed with European and African ancestry. In this name, we honor what was taken—and what endured.
Founded on October 6, 2008 as the Nwambu People, the tribe's name became the Una Tribe of Mixed-Bloods. Then it changed to the Una Nation of Mixed-Bloods, finally settling in 2024 on the name the Sakochee Tribe of Native American Descendants.
Our first Chief was Richard Edward Lake, II, followed by his son who is our current leader, Chief Alexander Ziwahatan.
Origins Across Many Lands
The ancestors of the Sakochee came from many regions, including:
The Powhatan Confederacy of the Virginia tidewaters
The Cherokee, Shawnee, and Chickasaw of the Southeast
The Mdewakanton Dakota and Yankton Sioux of the Great Plains
The Piscataway of the Potomac River
The Nanticoke and Lenape of the mid-Atlantic
The Métis and Ojibwe of the North
The Missouri, Miami, and Pamunkey of the interior rivers
These ancestors often intermarried—sometimes by choice, sometimes through survival. Many of our forebears passed as white to escape removal. Others were enslaved or displaced, and some took Christian names to shield their heritage. But the bloodlines remained.
Erased—but Not Forgotten
The Sakochee are the descendants of those who were left out of the rolls. Forgotten by federal and state systems, denied by both white and Native communities, we carried our identity in whispers and family stories.
For generations, our people survived on the fringes—working as laborers, farmers, caregivers, and warriors. Many served in the U.S. military, raised children in hidden corners of America, and passed down knowledge that could not be recorded on paper.
We were the "in-between" people—never fully claimed, never fully erased.
The Reawakening
In the late 20th and early 21st century, Sakochee descendants began to reconnect. Through genealogy, oral history, and blood memory, a movement formed. Families across the country found each other and shared the same stories: a grandmother who was “part Indian,” a grandfather who refused to register, tribal names erased from Bibles or birth records.
What began as a search for truth became a declaration of sovereignty.
Under the leadership of Chief Richard Lake, the Sakochee Tribe was formally named, organized, and united as a living nation of mixed-blood Indigenous descendants with a shared mission: to preserve, restore, and protect what colonization could not destroy.
We Stand Today
Today, the Sakochee Tribe represents over 113,000 dispersed descendants—a sovereign people asserting their identity, preserving their heritage, and building a future rooted in truth and dignity.
We are not seeking permission to exist. We are reclaiming what was always ours: our name, our story, and our right to be counted.
“We are the children of many tribes—stitched together by survival, and reborn in truth.”
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