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Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s signature is affixed to the 1956 Lumbee Act. Federal recognition can be gained by an act of Congress; the Department of the Interior’s Office of ...
(The Center Square) – Federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is in a Senate proposal from Republicans Thom Tillis and Ted Budd. The proposal mirrors a version in the House of ...
“The Lumbee people have waited for decades for full federal recognition,” Harris said. "But we can’t lose momentum now. The House and Senate must pass the Lumbee Fairness Act to codify this ...
At one point about a century ago, the Lumbee were known as the Cherokee Indians of Robeson County, and for many years now all three Cherokee tribes — the Eastern Band, the Cherokee Nation, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians — have denounced this and been vocal opponents of granting the Lumbee federal recognition.
[a] The petition was denied in 1989 because of the Lumbee Act. [40] Senator Elizabeth Dole and Representative Mike McIntyre testifying at a congressional hearing on federal Lumbee recognition, 2003. The Lumbee resumed lobbying Congress, testifying in 1988, 1989, 1991 and 1993 in efforts to gain full federal recognition by congressional action. [57]
The bills of the 117th United States Congress list includes proposed federal laws that were introduced in the 117th United States Congress.. The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses: the lower house known as the House of Representatives and the upper house known as the Senate.
VOCA Fix to Sustain the Crime Victims Fund Act of 2021 To deposit certain funds into the Crime Victims Fund, to waive matching requirements, and for other purposes. Pub. L. 117–27 (text), H.R. 1652, 135 Stat. 301, enacted July 22, 2021: 117-28 July 26, 2021: Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Act of 2021
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.