According to the tribe’s official website, the Rappahannock first encountered European settlers along the river in 1607. The tribe sold their first piece of land to the English in 1651, a sale ...

For centuries, a Native American tribe considered a large swath of land with cliffs jutting out along the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Northern Neck as its ancestral heart and homelands. In ...

In 2022, the Rappahannock Tribe, a federally recognized tribe, and one of the 11 tribes recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia, reacquired 465 acres of sacred land at Fones Cliffs where, ...

In a historic tribal-wide vote, the Rappahannock Tribe in Virginia has become the first tribal nation in the U.S. to adopt a Tribal Constitution that recognizes the constitutional rights of nature.

On Wednesday, the Rappahannock Tribe acquired the largest amount of its ancestral lands to date with the transfer of nearly 1,000 acres from The Conservation Fund, to be preserved in ...

While the nearby Pamunkey tribe carved out a reservation in the late 1600s, the Rappahannock lost their ancestral land and scattered. By the early 20th century, their descendants struggled to ...

The Rappahannock Tribe was among 11 tribes across the country to receive an award from the National Park Service’s Tribal Heritage Grant Program. The funding will support the rehabilitation of ...

The Rappahannock tribal nation located in King and Queen County joined five other tribes across the U.S. in signing preservation agreements with the National Park Service (NPS).

The Rappahannock Tribe in Virginia has become the first tribal nation in the U.S. to adopt a tribal constitution that grants legal rights to a river, specifically protecting the Rappahannock River ...