The Pembroke-based Lumbee tribe was federally recognized by Congress in December after a nearly 140-year fight. Here's what's ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition, which it has sought since 1888. Tribal ...

The Senate approved the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday, authorizing nearly $900 billion in military ...

This week on Native Bidaské, Native News Online Editor Levi Rickert interviews Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina Chairman John Lowery.

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is set to gain federal recognition once President Donald Trump signs the National Defense ...

PEMBROKE — President Donald Trump is expected to sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes the Lumbee Fairness Act to grant the Lumbee Tribe full federal recognition, at 6 p.m ...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee is the only NC tribe with full federal recognition. But NC recognizes seven others.

With the stroke of a pen, the U.S. welcomes more than 50,000 new federally recognized citizens from the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina. After numerous failed attempts, the Lumbee Nation is the 575th ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina achieved a goal more than a century in the making on Wednesday when it secured federal ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- There was raw emotion on Capitol Hill as the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina cleared its final hurdles ...

Hayes Alan Locklear helped create the Lumbee's distinctive tribal regalia. Hayes Alan Locklear created the symbol of North Carolina’s Lumbee Indian tribe when a pageant queen had nothing to wear. On ...

The bill reached Trump's desk on Thursday, after the U.S. House passed it with bipartisan support a week earlier and the U.S.