ANNE RICHARDSON STILL RECALLS her father, then the Rappahannock Tribe’s chief, shedding tears 25 years ago when he entered the tribe’s new cultural center. “He said, ‘I never dreamed that I would live to see the day that we would have this back in our community—a place where we can gather and be together and be protected,’” she says.
Soon after, Richardson succeeded him as the fourth elected chief in her family