The West Virginia Supreme Court on Monday granted the Delaware Tribe of Indians its writ seeking to prohibit enforcement of a Boone County judge’s order denying the Tribe’s request to transfer a child ...

Gov. Ralph Northam (D) on Thursday signed an order requiring state agencies to consult with Virginia Indian tribes before making decisions that affect land, waterways and other natural sites ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For 80 years, 4-H members at summer camp in West Virginia have split off into tribes and followed rituals patterned after Native American customs, from copying rain dances to ...

Indians remain in Virginia, however, and still reside on ancestral lands. Six of the commonwealth's tribes have asked Congress to grant them federal recognition. The legislation has languished for ...

More than 2 million American Indians live in the United States today, with the largest concentration found west of the Mississippi River. In Virginia, about 16,000 people call themselves Native ...

THE PAMUNKEY INDIAN RESERVATION — They’ve survived in Eastern Virginia for more than 10,000 years, withstanding the arrival of European colonists and holding onto tribal land at a reservation that ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A citizen of India illegally living in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, admitted to a marriage scheme to dodge United States immigration laws, federal prosecutors said ...

SURRY — The Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia 2024 Powwow is less than a month away. The annual event takes place at the Nottoway Tribal Grounds in Surry. Visitors from all backgrounds are ...

For three and a half centuries, the Mattaponi and Pamunkey tribes have been presenting a tribute of wild game to the governor of Virginia. This year, they delivered two bucks.

NORFOLK, Va. | 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 ...

Two rivers, named after the tribes, come together to form the York River at West Point, Virginia (not to be confused with the military academy town of the same name). Upstream a few miles, the ...