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Inside the wooden-walled confines of James Fort on Jamestown Island visitors are able to explore the past where it happened. One program on the island looks to show how the first inhabitants likely… ...
JAMESTOWN, Va. — The powerful American Indian chief, known as Powhatan, had refused the English settlers’ demands to return stolen guns and swords at Jamestown, Va., so the English retaliated ...
For years, Jamestown’s focus has been on the settlement’s earliest years and how it barely got by after its 1607 founding. A new exhibition at the Jamestown Archaearium opening Monday e… ...
JAMESTOWN, Va. — Jamestown’s roots run deep. ... Jamestown has been likened to America’s original Ellis Island with European, Native, and African American cultures converging on this site.
In Paspahegh Town at the Jamestown Settlement in Williamsburg, Va., cultural interpreters demonstrate how the tribe made tools, prepared food and wove natural fibers into rope. (Jamestown-Yorktown ...
The foreigners built their Jamestown right in the heart of a 6,350-square-mile country called Tsencomoco, where a powerful elder chief governed at least 14,000 individuals distributed among about ...
VA’s Native American Direct Loan program in fiscal 2022 covered 520 loans totaling almost $83 million. About 1,200 individuals have participated in the program since it was launched in 1992.The ...
Native American veterans or veterans who married a Native American, and who are interested in the NADL program, can email NADL@va.gov or call 888-349-7541 for more information. -- Amanda Miller ...
For years, Jamestown’s focus has been on the settlement’s earliest years and how it barely got by after its 1607 founding. A new exhibition at the Jamestown Archaearium opening Monday e… ...