Hamilton McMillan, a Democrat from Robeson County, ran for the General Assembly and sought Lumbee votes by promising them a school and a historical identity. The Indian schedule in the 1800s ...

As the largest tribe east of the Mississippi River and the ninth largest in the nation, the Lumbee’s limbo status in federal Indian law demands resolution. Since receiving state recognition in ...

What to know Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 5 ways ... in 1956 under the Lumbee Act. The law recognized the Lumbee as the Lumbee Indians of North ...

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 ...

The Lumbee would be the largest tribe east of the Mississippi to have full federal recognition and have faced opposition from other tribes, including the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians in ...

Thom Tillis, R-NC. “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 ...