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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 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.
But before that happens, a tribal nation has to file a successful application with the Office of Federal Acknowledgement, a department within the Interior. The Lumbee Tribe was denied the ability to apply for federal recognition in 1987, based on the interpretation of a 1956 congressional act that acknowledged the Lumbee but stopped short of ...
Bassam Barabandi Rewards for Justice Act: To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize rewards under the Department of State's rewards program relating to information regarding individuals or entities engaged in activities in contravention of United States or United Nations sanctions, and for other purposes. H.R. 1042
[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 Lumbee have been pursuing federal recognition since 1985, after their application was denied by the Bureau because they “could not establish the group’s descendance either culturally, politically, or genealogically from any tribe which existed historically in the area.” [16] In 2017, the first Trump administration reversed the tribe's ...