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Barbour County was settled primarily by white people from eastern Virginia, beginning in the 1770s and '80s. It was part of the colony (later state) of Virginia until West Virginia was admitted to the Union as a separate state during the American Civil War. The families that later became known as "Chestnut Ridge people" began to arrive after ...
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]
Pages in category "Native American tribes in West Virginia" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
(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 ...
The Lumbee Tribe is made up of survivors of multiple eastern tribal nations who settled in a geographically isolated area of North Carolina while Native Americans were being driven to the west ...
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 ...
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 following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of West Virginia whose names are derived from Native American languages.