The Rappahannock Tribe takes ownership of more than 460 acres of ancestral homeland along the river that bears its name. According to 13 News Now the acquisition returns a section of Rappahannock River frontage known as Fones Cliffs which the tribe was driven away from by English settlers more than 350 years ago. Fones Cliffs is a major East Coast nesting place for bald eagles, considered sacred in Rappahannock culture.