As this week’s deadline looms for a report ordered by President Donald Trump, many Lumbee people believe the federal ...

PEMBROKE, N.C. — Members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina are awaiting the release ... federally-recognized tribes that their claims to Native ancestry are legitimate.

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is based in the southeastern part of the state. The name comes from the Lumbee River, which has helped sustain Native Americans in the area for centuries.

After years of unsuccessfully persuading some North Carolina schools to ... Republican and a member of the Lumbee Tribe. Lowery is the only Native American legislator in the General Assembly.

North Carolina, he was a rock and a foundation piece for that community," Sampson said of his father's place in the Lumbee Tribe. "We’re a non-federally recognized Native American tribe that’s ...

In 2023, Republican North Carolina lawmakers introduced a ... Hayes Pond was the site where Lumbee Tribe and other Native Americans ousted the Ku Klux Klan in January 1958. Robert Willett File ...