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

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 ...

Virginia Tech defensive lineman Antwaun Powell-Ryland, a former Norcom High star, has declared for the 2025 NFL draft, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Indian-American lawyer Harmeet Dhillon ... Dhillon, a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Law School, has been a vocal advocate ...

Tuesday's tribute ceremony at the Virginia Governor's mansion continued a tradition older than the US, as the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Indian Tribes honored a nearly 350-year-old treaty with Virginia.

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 ...

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 ...

The Monacan Indian Nation has received a Virginia Land Conservation Foundation grant to acquire 100 forested acres on Bear Mountain, the Amherst County-based tribe’s ancestral home for more than ...

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