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A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in ... North Carolina 9,018 81.69 (211.58) ... Lumbee Tribe of North ...
The Coharie Intra-tribal Council, Inc. is a state-recognized tribe in North Carolina. [3] The headquarters are in Clinton, North Carolina. [5]Formerly known as the Coharie Indian People, Inc. [7] and the Coharie Tribe of North Carolina, the group's 2,700 members primarily live in Sampson and Harnett counties.
Pages in category "Native American tribes in North Carolina" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Most state-recognized tribes are located in the Eastern United States, including the three largest state-recognized tribes in the US, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama, and the United Houma Nation of Louisiana, each of which has more than ten thousand members. [5] [6] [7]
The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of North Carolina whose names are derived from Native American languages. Listings [ edit ]
In 1913, over the objections of the existing federally recognized Cherokee Nation tribes in Oklahoma, the North Carolina legislators, based on a petition lobbied for and created by the Croatans, added "Cherokee" to the name of the Robeson County tribe. The tribe petitioned for federal recognition as "Cherokee" Indians, but it was denied.
States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1] For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska Native tribal entities.
Based on this grant of exclusivity, the tribe had agreed to a revenue-sharing agreement with the state, with funds to be used by the state only for public education purposes. [13] [14] In September 2015 the tribe opened their second casino, Harrah's Cherokee Valley River, in Murphy, North Carolina. [15]