BBC Magazine explores why Virginia tribes are recognized by the United Kingdom through treaty but not by the United States:
The tribes claim they have been denied their proper rights - enjoyed by 565 other tribes in the US which do have official status - since a 1920s state law on "racial integrity" decreed that people in Virginia were either "white or coloured". Yet the tribes are recognised in the UK thanks to a peace treaty signed in 1677 with the King of England.Get the Story:
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