Lumbee

After a 137-year struggle, North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe has received full federal recognition. It fulfills one of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises and opens new opportunities for the tribe. The Lumbee are now eligible to receive federal funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which could support education, health care and housing. We look at why the process took so long and what comes next.

The North Carolina House passed a resolution this week supporting full federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe. The tribe's chairman says it's a big step forward.

We sit down with tribal members and advocates for Native Americans to discuss how the American Indian community has fared during the coronavirus pandemic.

As the highly-transmissible delta variant moves through the Lumbee community, many are now feeling the impact of the pandemic at a personal level.

The chairman of North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe says it appears that the tribe will not be getting federal recognition this year.

In the final countdown to Election Day, the Trump and Biden campaigns turned attention to a swath of land just north of the South Carolina border and to the diverse people who live there.

The Lumbee of eastern North Carolina have long been identified as Native American by their neighbors and by the state. Even the federal government has…

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