Ani-Stohini/Unami is a small Native American tribe located in seven counties of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and one county of North Carolina. They submitted a full Petition for Federal Acknowledgment of Existence as an Indian Tribe through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in the Department of the Interior in 1968. The Bureau of Indian Affairs stated that they lost the petition and blamed the American Indian Movement take over of the B.I.A. during protests in 1972 for the missing documentation. The tribe again submitted a petition in 1994. but remain an unrecognized tribe. They are not recognized by the state of Virginia.