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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 Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has for years sought federal recognition as a Native American group, and President Donald Trump is pushing for them to have it.. Trump on Thursday signed an ...
(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 ...
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]
Trump, the eventual winner, promised he would sign legislation to grant federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe, a distinction that would unlock access to federal funds. [16] For years, the Lumbee attempted to circumvent recognition by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for being "flawed" by appealing directly to Congress instead. [16]
The Texas state legislature often issues congratulatory resolutions that "commend" organizations, such one honoring the Mount Tabor Indian Community in 2017, "for its contributions to [the] state" [81] and the Lipan Apache in 2019; [82] however, this is not the same as formal recognition of a tribe by a state. Texas Senate Bill 231 to formally ...
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 ...