Dana Hedgpeth
 

CLIPS

This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.

 
 
 

Native Americans fight for items looted from bodies at Wounded Knee

 

This was the worst slaughter of Native Americans in U.S. history. Few remember it.

 
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Native Americans are transporting a 5,000-pound totem pole to D.C. from the Pacific Northwest

 
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This land is sacred to the Apache, and they are fighting to save it

 
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The Irish are repaying a favor from 173 years ago in Native Americans’ fight against coronavirus

 
 

Native American tribes were already being wiped out. Then the 1918 flu hit.

 
 

The week hundreds of Native Americans took over D.C.’s Bureau of Indian Affairs

 
 

Powhatan and his people: The 15,000 American Indians shoved aside by Jamestown’s settlers

 
 

How Native Americans were vaccinated against smallpox, then pushed off their land

 
 

Indian Country, where residents suffer disproportionately from disease, is bracing for coronavirus

 
 

‘Jim Crow, Indian style’: How Native Americans were denied the right to vote for decades

 
 

A Native American tribe once called D.C. home. It’s had no living members for centuries.

 
 

Perspective | I am not their nanny, I am their mom. And I’m American Indian.

 
 

This Native American inscription was found deep inside a cave. Two centuries later, scholars think they understand its meaning.

 

Quirky stories that had big online hits of viewers

 
 

So many pets have been adopted during the pandemic that shelters are running out

 
 

12-year-old girl becomes first ‘non-fishing’ shark bite victim in Maryland history, state says

 
 

New species of bloodsucking leech with three jaws and 59 teeth found outside Washington

 
 

‘It’s a lot of drama at the nest this year’ for bald eagles in Washington

 
 

Rare two-headed copperhead snake found in Virginia

 
 

Video shows boaters rescuing ‘Rocky Raccoon’ in the Chesapeake Bay area

 
 

Sloth love? Two sloths are being introduced to each other in hopes they’ll mate at National Zoo.

 
 

Welcome, hedgehogs. The increasingly popular pet is now legal in Fairfax County homes.

 
 

Missing Pedals, the bear? Meet Boo Boo.

 
 

‘A real wildcat in the District’: Bobcat spotted in D.C. along the C&O Canal

 

Covid related, human interest stories

 
 

Stitching ‘HOPE’: Woman creates quilt to honor coronavirus victims and front-line workers

 
 

Known as ‘Mr. Spaghetti,’ longtime owner of Adams Morgan restaurant spent a lifetime helping others

 
 

Tiffany Shackelford, 46, was known as a unique, fun ‘force’ to friends, family

 

Business-related, economy, auto and defense industry stories

 
 

The Last Handshake Deal: Southeast's Old-School Landlords Make Their Exit -- and Money -- as Developers Swoop In

 
 

In District’s Ward 8, economic recovery is a world away

 
 

Thursday, Capital Grille; Friday, Federal Court

 
 

On this Chrysler, tenacity comes standard

 
 

The Trickle-Down Effect: An auto-parts maker fades in the fallout from Detroit

 
 

For car dealers, the hardest sell is on the Hill

 
 

Money as a weapon

 
 

Building Blackwater (article won Loeb Award)

 
 

Blackwater’s Owner Has Spies for Hire

 

Transportation, breaking news stories

 
 

12-hour Beltway shutdown creates commuter nightmare

 

Hurricane Katrina, BP oil spill stories

 
 

A family business breached

 
 

Aboard a shallow-water gas rig, regulatory confusion keeps crew waiting

 
 

Louisiana oysterman worry that BP payout won’t be enough

 

Selling the tools at hand

 

Haiti earthquake stories

 
 

U.S. soldiers play vital role in beleaguered Haitian shantytown

 

Girl’s rescue 15 days after quake offers a rare moment of joy in devastated Haiti