#EAS #WEA for Culpeper, #VA; #Fauquier, #VA; #Rappahannock, #VA: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 11:00 AM EDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC
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…Fones Cliffs is divided into several parcels. One is owned by the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Two others are owned by the #Rappahannock tribe & protected with #conservation easements. The tribe plans to build a welcome center on some of the #land & create a system of trails & kiosks to #educate the public about the land’s #history & the tribe’s #traditions.
“There’s a connection for us to this land,” Richardson said, “& getting it back is recovering our history.”
Eventually, the Rappahannocks’ land at Fones Cliffs ended up in private ownership, & for the last 3 decades, much of it was used for #logging.
During the colonial period, Edward DuBois Ragan — the #Rappahannock’s tribal historic preservation officer — said the Rappahannocks “were alienated from this #land, even though treaties guaranteed them the rights to occupy, hunt, fish & oyster there.”
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Starting in the 1640s, the #Rappahannock tribe’s land was taken by English settlers who turned much of it into #plantations. In 1924, #Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act tried to erase #NativeAmericans by declaring that every state resident had to be either White or Black. The Rappahannocks — as well as other tribes in the Mid-Atlantic area — struggled to maintain their identity for generations & essentially became a #landless tribe.
“These are people who were #displaced from their #land more than 400 years ago, and it’s so important that they’re given the opportunity to regain that connection that by right is theirs,” said Heather Richards, the Mid-Atlantic regional vice president for the #Conversation Fund, which helped the #Rappahannock tribe acquire a large parcel of land at Fones Cliffs.
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The #Rappahannock tribe once lived in villages & towns in the lush region, long before English settlers arrived, said Richardson & tribal elders & historians. They grew corn, squash & beans, hunted deer & rabbits, & harvested berries & plants. At the tribe’s peak in the mid-to-late 1500s, its #land encompassed more than 350,000 acres along the river valley, & its population reached nearly 2,400.
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