but before West Virginia was even a state, it was the home of various Native American tribes, some of whom still hold a presence in the area. Paleo-Indians were the first to occupy the Mountain ...

Thomas Lewis was the lesser-known brother of Andrew Lewis. Both brothers negotiated a short-lived treaty with the Lenape ...

November is Native American Heritage Month – a perfect time to honor Indigenous traditions, cultures, and histories. At UVA Library, we’re highlighting work created by and about Native Americans.

VCU’s Humanities Research Center started its “On Native Ground” initiative in 2021 with the aim of making Indigenous ...

In 1990, former President George H. W. Bush declared November as National American Indian Heritage Month — now National Native American Heritage Month.

One of the original goals of the Virginia Company, in addition to that of making a profit, was to create a community where Englishmen and Native Americans could work side-by-side and in complete ...

And fairly early on the English ruled out the possibility of Native Americans as a work force in their tobacco fields. It was to England itself that Virginia planters turned for labor in the 1620s ...

Historians believe that the figure now more commonly called Pocahontas was born somewhere around 1596 in the part of America now known as Virginia. Her dad was a renowned Native American leader ...