Five years ago, University of Virginia class of 2020 graduate Megan Eisenfelder spent the summer on the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota to study the effects of bison grazing on native tallgrass prairies. As she conducted her research, community members asked to tag along, fascinated by the...

Significantly fewer Native students have headed to higher education in the past 12 years. That’s part of a broader national trend — National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data show a steady decline in the overall number of American students entering higher education since 2012 — but the drop...

A group of Native entrepreneurs, organizers and representatives from tribal enterprises will join the First Nations Trade Mission trip to visit with Indigenous Australians to open talks about trade opportunities and information exchange. The Trade Mission will send 10 delegates from a cross-section...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week launched a website to streamline information and resources related to open missing and murdered Indigenous persons cases. The new page within the DOJ’s Tribal Justice and Safety website details the federal government’s increased efforts to address the...

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (UVA) has received a $250,000 American Art Program Responsive Grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to focus on the Museum’s Native North American Collections Project. The initiative will support new research and interpretation of the Native...

Virginia Humanities announced today that Savannah Baber is serving as the new Coordinator for Virginia Indian Programs. The position, established in 2007, is responsible for working with tribal nations throughout Virginia, identifying creative opportunities for collaboration, and finding ways...

PALMYRA, VA – March 16, 2022 – The Monacan Indian Nation today celebrates the selection of an alternative route for the construction of the James River Water Authority (JRWA) water withdrawal and pipeline, which will avoid destroying the Monacan historic capital of Rassawek. Read the press release...

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...

UVA Today, by Alice Berry , vfu6kd@virginia.edu . The REDress Project, launched in 2010 by the mixed-ancestry Métis artist Jamie Black, honors Indigenous victims in the United States and Canada. REDress has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Museum of the American Indian, the...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The University of Virginia hosted its first powwow since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Native tribes from all along the east coast came together to celebrate their culture and show that they are still here.