PEMBROKE, N.C. (WTVD) -- The North Carolina Lumbee Tribe is closer to gaining full federal recognition as the measure advances through Congress. The U.S. Senate began voting Tuesday on a spending bill ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina achieved a goal more than a century in the making on Wednesday when it secured federal recognition as a tribal nation through the passage of a defense bill in ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has never been much of an ally to Native American tribes, regularly trying to slash their federal funding and strip protections from culturally important public ...

With the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act by the Senate on Wednesday, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is all but assured to become a federally recognized tribal nation. The ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina achieved a goal more than a century in the making on Wednesday when it secured federal recognition as a tribal nation through the passage of a defense bill in ...

PEMBROKE, N.C. (WTVD) -- Members of the Lumbee Tribe traveled to Washington, D.C. and met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to discuss full federal recognition. "This is really correcting a ...

The U.S. House voted to grant the Lumbee Tribe federal recognition. What happens next in the Senate? In 1956, Congress acknowledged the Lumbee as an Indian Tribe but denied them federal services. Now ...