The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has long stood as a proud and resilient Indigenous community, recognized for its unique ...

The People of the Dark Water, ​as the Lumbee are known,​ have waited long enough for their rightful place in the federal ...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs conducted an oversight hearing to review the priorities of Native ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has for years sought federal recognition as a Native American group, and President Donald Trump is pushing for them to have it. Trump on Thursday signed an ...

"They were with me all the way." With more than 55,000 members, the Lumbee Tribe is one of the largest Native American groups in the United States. With mixed success, the Lumbee have been pushing ...

The Lumbee claim to be the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River with around 60,000 members. They were granted state recognition in 1885 and partial federal recognition from ...

Lowery, the Lumbee's tribal chairman ... "They deserve the same rights and privileges granted to other Native American tribes across our country," Budd said earlier this month.

President Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum asking the Department of the Interior to move towards fully recognizing the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina as Native American. It's a move that could ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has pushed for federal recognition for decades. A new executive order instructs Interior Department to help.

The Lumbee Tribe says it 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 ...

The Lumbee tribe is recognized as a Native American tribe by the state of North Carolina but has been denied full recognition by the federal government. During the presidential campaign ...