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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UPDATE: U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman (VA-01) announced on Jan. 29 that President Donald Trump has signed into law H.R. 984, the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017.

Gavin Adkins's pick-up truck ran off Route 60 in New Kent County and struck a tree before it overturned and caught fire.

Almost one year after watching her first attempt die in a congressional procedure, Rep. Jennifer McClellan says she is trying again to gain federal recognition for a central Virginia Native American ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Governor Glenn Youngkin was joined by tribal citizens of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey tribes at his mansion on Wednesday for the annual Tax Tribute Ceremony. Gov. Youngkin was ...

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 ...