Lumbee Tribe /tags/lumbee-tribe Lumbee Tribe en-US Copyright Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:23:10 GMT White House plan for full recognition of Lumbee Tribe still in the works, tribal chairman says /race-class-communities/2025-04-29/lumbee-federal-recognition-plan-north-carolina-trump A Jan. 23, 2025 memo from President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Interior to fast-track federal recognition within 90 days. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:23:10 GMT /race-class-communities/2025-04-29/lumbee-federal-recognition-plan-north-carolina-trump Aaron Sánchez-Guerra A conversation with Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz, author of 'The Indian Card: Who Gets to be Native in America' /show/due-south/2025-04-15/a-conversation-with-carrie-lowry-schuettpelz-author-of-the-indian-card-who-gets-to-be-native-in-america Due South’s Leoneda Inge talks with Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz, an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and director of the Native Policy Lab at the University of Iowa, about her recently published book, 'The Indian Card: Who Gets to be Native in America.' Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:01:40 GMT /show/due-south/2025-04-15/a-conversation-with-carrie-lowry-schuettpelz-author-of-the-indian-card-who-gets-to-be-native-in-america Leoneda Inge, Rachel McCarthy The Broadside: Who gets to be Native in America /show/due-south/2025-02-17/the-broadside-who-gets-to-be-native-in-america The Broadside's Anisa Khalifa explores the Lumbee Tribe's long fight for full federal recognition. Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:20:00 GMT /show/due-south/2025-02-17/the-broadside-who-gets-to-be-native-in-america Anisa Khalifa, Jerad Walker Trump promised federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe. Will he follow through? /news/2024-11-29/trump-federal-recognition-lumbee-tribe When Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigned in North Carolina, both candidates courted a state-recognized tribe there whose 55,000 members could have helped tip the swing state. Trump in September promised that he would sign legislation to grant federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe, a distinction that would unlock access to federal funds. Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:38:27 GMT /news/2024-11-29/trump-federal-recognition-lumbee-tribe Associated Press Early voters in once-blue Robeson County cite reproductive rights, morals as key issues /politics/2024-10-29/early-voters-robeson-county-north-carolina-reproductive-rights-2024-election Robeson County consistently voted for Democratic presidential candidates until Donald Trump's first run. It's one of North Carolina's more purple counties. Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:02:37 GMT /politics/2024-10-29/early-voters-robeson-county-north-carolina-reproductive-rights-2024-election Rusty Jacobs 'Democracy is Indigenous': Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina promotes the native vote /politics/2024-10-25/lumbee-tribe-north-carolina-native-vote Tens of thousands of voters part of the civically-engaged Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina stand to make a difference in the election. Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:39:47 GMT /politics/2024-10-25/lumbee-tribe-north-carolina-native-vote Aaron Sánchez-Guerra Native American tribes across the U.S. attend graduation feather ceremony in North Carolina /news/2024-05-03/graduation-feather-ceremony-native-american-carolina The Cumberland County School District held its 5th annual feather ceremony for graduating Native American high school seniors. Fri, 03 May 2024 13:33:50 GMT /news/2024-05-03/graduation-feather-ceremony-native-american-carolina Sharryse Piggott 'We sing of the beautiful river:' One new song crafted by eight tribes of the Carolinas /arts-culture/2024-04-18/intertribal-canoe-song-unc-pembroke-museum-american-indian-tribes North Carolina's Museum of the Southeast American Indian released a song described as being by and for Native communities. Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:57:34 GMT /arts-culture/2024-04-18/intertribal-canoe-song-unc-pembroke-museum-american-indian-tribes Sophie Mallinson Pembroke's Lumbee Indian community helps shift Robeson to the right /politics/2023-12-15/pembroke-lumbee-indian-community-robeson-right-main-street In recent years, many Lumbees have helped shift Robeson County politically from a place with a reliable majority for the Democratic Party to a county that largely supports Republicans. A push for federal recognition for the tribe is one of the factors. Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:24:26 GMT /politics/2023-12-15/pembroke-lumbee-indian-community-robeson-right-main-street Colin Campbell UNC-Chapel Hill’s archeology labs continue to hold the remains of hundreds of Native Americans /news/2023-07-25/unc-chapel-hill-archeology-labs-hold-remains-hundreds-native-americans Three decades after Congress passed a federal law intended to return ancestral remains to Native tribes, UNC-CH’s Research Laboratories of Archeology still hold remains representing more than 600 individuals — the largest share of unrepatriated remains in the state. Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:14:57 GMT /news/2023-07-25/unc-chapel-hill-archeology-labs-hold-remains-hundreds-native-americans Laura Pellicer, Lilly Knoepp