There’s an old saying that goes, “justice delayed is justice denied” and perhaps no group understands that better than the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has long stood as a proud and resilient Indigenous community, recognized for its unique ...

A campaign promise kept by Donald Trump is renewing centuries-old questions about who gets to be Native in America.

The People of the Dark Water, ​as the Lumbee are known,​ have waited long enough for their rightful place in the federal ...

Trump has signed a presidential memorandum directing the Secretary of the Interior to submit a plan to secure full federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. This memorandum ...

Trump’s recognition of the Lumbee has been condemned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who also inhabit North Carolina and have argued for more than a century that the Lumbee are not a ...

Legislation that would give the Lumbee Tribe full federal recognition was introduced in the U.S. Senate last week, the latest development in an ongoing push for the ...

(The Center Square) – Federal recognition for the nation’s ninth largest Native American tribe has gotten a nod from second-term Republican President Donald Trump and other members of North Carolina .

Pembroke is the economic, cultural and political center of the tribe. The Lumbee Fairness Act, reintroduced in both chambers of Congress, has drawn support and opposition based on geography as ...