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This article comes as some surprise to me, as i'm sure it did most of you. I always assumed that since fredericksburg sprang up near here, and become such a big city that the original area must have been very good and fertile and home to indians. Now staffford isn't fredericksburg, but it is close. Mr. Green trying to get state recognition as a tribe is honorable, however in this day and age, the system is not made to deal with incidents as old as the original inhabitants of the area, and reall doesn't care. However if he is able to get recognition with the 400th anniversary of jamestown it would be very impressive. No matter what happens in our history the indians are there, from the beginning to now in the year 2006, it is very impressive in my opinion. Sadly in 2006 there are government and private programs such as the smithsonian which have enough power to stop Mr. Green's cause and keep his ancestors bones in storage. Overall it is a very interesting dive into the modern relation with indians that has survived enough through time to try and be revived, even on a very basic level.