NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Department of Interior granted federal recognition to a Virginia Indian tribe for the first time on Thursday, more than 400 years after the first permanent English settlers ...

John Smith and the English colonists sailed up a river they dubbed the James in 1607 and saw a vast, empty wilderness, nothing but “faire meddowes and goodly tall Trees.” The New World. Just out of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X During Jamestown Settlement’s Indigenous Arts Day, the Red Crooked Sky American Indian Dance ...

Virginia Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner are sponsoring legislation that would extend federal recognition to six Virginia Indian tribes. The legislation is welcome. The recognition is overdue — in the ...

Brad Hatch takes pride in his work as a Patawomeck Indian Tribe master eel pot maker. When Hatch works to weave split white oak into baskets used to capture the slippery creatures, he’s helping ...

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Legislation that would grant long-sought federal recognition of six Virginia Indian tribes is headed to the full U.S. Senate. Sen. Tim Kaine’s office says the Senate Indian ...

Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan of Virginia introduced H.R. 10191, the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Federal Recognition Act, to extend federal recognition to the Nottoway Indian Tribe of ...

A bipartisan group of Virginia legislators introduced a bill in Congress this week to secure federal recognition for an Indian tribe whose connections to the region reach back thousands of years. If ...

As the 400th anniversary of the English arrival in Jamestown approaches, descendants of the Virginia Indian tribes who helped the colonists survive are seeking recognition from the federal government.

On March 20, 1924, the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the nation’s cruelest, most draconian, segregation law. Designed to preserve white racial “purity,” the legislation became a model for states ...