They gained that in 2015 after applying through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, while six other Virginia tribes were ... to get that recognition, the tribe has to meet certain criteria-- but ...

A Native American activist who claims ancestry from the same Virginia tribe as Pocahontas, the Pamunkey indigenous group, is ...

Trapping beavers to meet the initial treaty requirements eventually ... An exhibit at the Mattaponi Indian Museum. Photo by Andrew Sharp For the Virginia tribes, a few centuries isn’t so long. These ...

Virginia’s “paper genocide” of the 1920s eliminated the demographic category of “Indian” and many records that went with it, leaving the Mattaponi and other tribes in the state facing an ...

but before West Virginia was even a state, it was the home of various Native American tribes, some of whom still hold a presence in the area. Paleo-Indians were the first to occupy the Mountain ...

Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan of Virginia introduced H.R. 10191, the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Federal Recognition ...

Members of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Indian Tribes participated ... the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Tribe chiefs met privately with Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-Virginia). "The relationship between ...

U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan, representing Virginia’s 4th Congressional District, recently introduced H.R. 10191, the ...

For his final time presenting the Pamunkey Indian Tribe ... from both tribes have brought deer harvested from their land. And in doing so, they and governors of Virginia have established a ...