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

The law recognized the Lumbee as the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina but denied them benefits associated with federal recognition as a tribe, including funding for housing, schools and health care.

Eisenhower signed the Lumbee Act, which recognized the tribe as the "Lumbee Indians of North Carolina." However, the said legislation did not provide federal benefits associated with such recognition.

So many people out there that say you're not real Indians, not real Native Americans. Well doggonit, we are. We have been for a long time. - James Locklear, Lumbee tribe member In an official ...

Though recognized in North Carolina as a tribe in 1885, the federal government stopped short in 1956 under the Lumbee Act. The law recognized the Lumbee as the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina but ...

“In September 2024, President Trump made a promise to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina to right the historical wrongs of the Indian Termination Era, and today’s executive order is a major ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina ... was trying to get out of what they call the Indian business, and they were terminating relationships with tribes. And so we actually got caught up in that.

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has pushed for federal recognition for decades. A new executive order instructs Interior Department to help.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order instructing the Department of the Interior to "promote" federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. The executive order ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North ... country's more than 500 federally recognized tribes. In a statement when the House bill passed in December, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Principal Chief Michell ...