The transfer of hundreds of acres at Fones Cliffs marks a significant partnership.
in Northern California, but there have been only modest efforts up until now in the east.
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation also contributed to the purchase, through Walmart’s Acres for America program. The Chesapeake Conservancy gave a permanent easement to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and donated the title to the land to the Rappahannock Tribe, which will place it in trust with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Protecting the site is “something that we’d worked toward a long time, and then it just suddenly happened,” Richardson said. “It was amazing to see it all come together.”The tribe has a small community center nearby but otherwise no territory of its own. Federally recognized in 2018, the Rappahannock now number about 300 but once dominated the fertile land along this stretch of river.
By the early 20th century, the eugenics movement and the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 aimed to eliminate the
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