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After 350 years, the Rappahannock Tribe Gets Land Back

News: April 02, 2022
by JENNA KUNZE - On Friday, the Rappahannock Tribe celebrated a historic win: the reacquisition of 465 acres of their ancestral homeland at Fones Cliffs, a sacred stretch of bluffs on the eastern side of the Rappahannock River in eastern Virginia. “We have worked for many years to restore this...

American Indian College Fund 200-Mile Cycle Challenge

Events: Sunday, May 01, 2022, 12:00am -Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 11:59pm
The American Indian College Fund is kicking off its Facebook 200-Mile Cycle Challenge on May 1. The fundraiser benefits the College Fund’s mission to give Native students better access to higher education. Those who sign up will challenge themselves to bike 200 miles by the end of May. Participants...

Sonia Alconini

Person: David A. Harrison III Professor of American Archaeology, Anthropology; co-director, Interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship in Indigenous Studies

Catherine Walden

Person: Program Director, Mellon Race, Place, and Equity Program, Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach

Graduate Interdisciplinary Fellowship

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Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship Indigenous knowledge systems do not readily conform to the disciplinary boundaries of a research university. Indigenous epistemologies, practices and belief systems, often move within and across humanistic, social and scientific divides...

Nansemond Annual Pow-Wow

Events: Saturday, Aug 20, 2022, 12:00am -Saturday, Aug 20, 2022, 11:59pm
“Nansemond Indian Homecoming” In 1988 our tribe held its first pow wow on ancestral land. It was called the “Nansemond Indian Homecoming” in celebration of our return to the Nansemond River after centuries of colonial displacement. Each year, in mid-August, we hold a “Nansemond Indian Homecoming” to...