Drive too quickly up Military Road in Arlington, and you're likely to miss the turn into the wooded drive for the Gulf Branch Nature Center. The center, with its collection of snakes slithering in ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — For students in classrooms in Virginia, Native American education looks a little different in 2023. “This is a great year to talk about it," said Virginia Assistant Superintendent ...

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 ...

October is National American Indian Heritage Month and Virginia Tech’s Multicultural Programs and Services encourages the community to think about Virginia’s first residents. The conflicted history 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 ...

First designated in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush, November is National American Indian Heritage Month. As the president correctly noted in his proclamation, “each of the many tribes that have ...

For the first time in centuries, the Nansemond Indian Nation owns a portion of the land where their ancestors once thrived. “It is really history making,” said Chief Keith Anderson. “This is the first ...

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.

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 ...

JAMES CITY — Jamestown Settlement is holding its annual Indigenous Arts Day on Saturday to honor the Virginia Indian tribal communities who have occupied the land for centuries. Beginning at 11 a.m., ...