Half-Day Private Native American on the Potomac History Bus Tour

Atop Capitol Hill, a cast iron dome towers the skyline where our Representatives and Senators legislate the people's business.

The highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point of U.S. Constitutional or federal law Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in the majority opinion that the Constitution gave to Congress, not the states, the power to make laws that applied to the Indian tribes

This is almost the exact spot of Nacotchtank. Here we will visualize what the region may have looked like to the Anacostans who lived there, talk about their ways of life, and imagine what it may have been like for them to first encounter Smith and other Europeans.

We will visit the the monument to the 26th president, which stands almost atop of Nameroughquena and reflect upon that symbolism.

Situated on the Fall Line, Georgetown was at the head of navigation (the farthest point upstream that oceangoing boats could navigate) of the Potomac River. In 1632, English fur trader Henry Fleet documented an American Indian village of the Nacotchtank people called Tohoga on the site of present-day Georgetown and established trade there. The area was then part of the Province of Maryland, an English colony.

Commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center, it is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Opened on September 8, 1971, the center hosts many different genres of performance art, such as theater, dance, orchestras, jazz, pop, psychedelic, and folk music.

In 1972, the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, then located on the sixth floor of the Watergate Office Building, was burgled; private campaign documents were photographed and telephones were wiretapped. The U.S. Senate investigation into the burglary revealed that high officials in the administration of President Richard Nixon had ordered the break-in and later tried to cover up their involvement. Additional crimes were also uncovered. The Watergate scandal, named after the complex, resulted in Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.

The site of Tohaga. We will make every attempt to meet up with a local expert on the regions native history here.