Six Indian Tribes Fight for Recognition

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

June 16, 2008

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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