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(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 ...
In 1952, under the leadership of D.F. Lowrie, the tribe voted to adopt the name "Lumbee." [citation needed] The North Carolina legislature recognized the tribe's name change to the "Lumbee Indians of North Carolina" in 1953. [54] The tribe petitioned again for federal recognition. [citation needed]
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In 2016, the Interior reversed that decision, allowing the Lumbee Tribe to apply, but the Lumbee have opted for the congressional route. The Lumbee's approach to gain recognition through legislation has stoked a simmering debate in both Indian Country and Congress about Indigenous identity and tribal nationhood.
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.
The Lumbee Tribe has been recognized in North Carolina since 1885, and the tribe was formally recognized by Congress in 1956. Yet the Lumbee Act that was passed in Congress failed to extend ...
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.
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