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Six Indian Tribes Fight for Recognition

Virginia’s Native Americans Are Recognized by the State, but Not Washington

By Jessica Brady
Roll Call Staff
June 16, 2008, Midnight

The peace treaties forged between Virginia’s Indian tribes and English settlers in the 17th century were so influential that tribal members in buckskin and feathers still deliver wild game and fish to the governor’s mansion in Richmond each Thanksgiving.

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February 9, 2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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