RICHMOND, Va.—Gov. Glenn Youngkin honored a 348-year-old treaty with two indigenous tribes on Nov. 26 and commended them for providing millions of servings of venison to Virginia’s homeless people over the past three decades.
Youngkin referred to efforts by the Mattaponi and the Pamunkey tribes, the only two tribes that reside on reservations in the Commonwealth of Virginia according to terms of the Treaty of Middle Plantation in 1677, made with Virginia’s colonial governor. Under that treaty, the tribes retain their land in exchange for a symbolic tax, which is “paid” every year by presenting to the governor two stags hunted on tribal lands and exhibited at the Governor’s Mansion in Richmond….