This archive preserves a richly illustrated presentation given by Dr. Jim Glanville to the Smyth County Genealogical Society. In it, Glanville re-centers the American Indian story of Southwest Virginia—especially Holstonia—through archeological, linguistic, and cultural evidence, asserting that the earliest identifiable peoples of the region were Yuchi-speaking tribes.
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This presentation offers compelling photographic and historical evidence that Mississippian-era American Indian cultures were deeply rooted in Smyth and Washington Counties, Virginia. Dr. Glanville, an independent scholar and adopted Yuchi Indian, assembled rare archival photographs and personal research to reveal a forgotten Indigenous presence—often overlooked by mainstream archeology.