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The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is a state-recognized tribe in North Carolina. [2] The tribe represents Lumbee people. They have federal recognition as a Native American tribe but do not receive the benefits accorded to most other federally-recognized tribes. [2] [3] With an estimated 55,000 members, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is the ...
The American Indian in North Carolina. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1957. Ross, Thomas E. American Indians in North Carolina: Geographic Interpretations, Southern Pines: Karo Hollow Press, 1999. ISBN 978-1-891026-01-0. Sider, Gerald M. Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North ...
Audience members watch and hold up signs of support for the North Carolina Lumbee Tribe in 2020 Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign event in Lumberton, North Carolina.
Lumberton is a city in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States. As of 2020, its population was 19,025. [5] It is the county seat of Robeson County. [6] Located in southern North Carolina's Inner Banks region, Lumberton is located on the Lumber River. It was founded in 1787 by John Willis, an officer in the American Revolution.
Though recognized in North Carolina as a tribe in 1885, the federal government stopped short in 1956 under the Lumbee Act, which recognized the Lumbee as the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina but ...
The state-recognized Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is headquartered in Pembroke. The area eventually comprising Robeson was initially inhabited by Native Americans, though little is known about them. By the mid-1700s, a Native community had coalesced around the swamps near Lumber River, which bisects the area. Later in the century, Scottish ...
The Lowry War or Lowrie War [a] was a conflict that took place in and around Robeson County, North Carolina, United States, from 1864 to 1874 between a group of mostly Native American outlaws and civil local, state, and federal authorities.
Pembroke is a town in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States. It is about 90 miles inland and northwest from the Atlantic Coast. The population was 2,823 at the 2020 census. The town is the seat of the state-recognized Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, as well as the home of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.