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Federal recognition can be gained by an act of Congress; the Department of the Interior’s Office of Federal Acknowledgement process; or by federal court decision.
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 Lumbee Tribe applied in 1987, but was denied based on the Department's interpretation of the 1956 Lumbee Act. Interior reversed that decision in 2016, but the Lumbee have not applied, instead ...
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.
United Lumbee Nation of North Carolina and America. [32] Letter of Intent to Petition 4/28/1980; Denied federal recognition 07/02/1985. [30] Also in California. Not to be confused with the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, a state-recognized tribe. Waccamaw Sioux Indian Tribe of Farmers Union, Clarkton, NC [134] New River Band of the Catawba ...
Similar to the LRDA's original enrollment requirements, a person must demonstrate their direct descent from a person who was identified as Indian on several documents dating from around 1900, including censuses, tax lists, the petitioners for federal recognition in 1888, an Indian school enrollment list, and church records.
Fiscal Year 2022 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act To authorize major medical facility projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2022, and for other purposes. Pub. L. 117–190 (text), H.R. 7500, 136 Stat. 2205, enacted October 10, 2022: 117-191 October 10, 2022
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 ...