A four-year battle between a Native American tribe and a Virginia water authority has ended after both parties agreed on a new location for water facilities, the tribe announced.
The project will now relocate a couple of miles upstream to an alternative route that Branham said the tribe pointed out to the water authority.
. The act banned interracial marriage and forced all births in the state to be classified with one of two designations, “White” or “Colored.”‘400 years is long enough’: Virginia’s ‘first contact’ Indian tribes demand federal recognition descendants of Virginia’s Indigenous people to get federal recognition, even with an abundance of other evidence. Six Virginia tribes, including the Monacans, finally won federal recognition in 2018.
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