President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Lumbee Act, which recognized the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina but denied them federal benefits.

As sovereign entities with their own governments, Native American tribes experience unique effects ... contracts to opt out of statutes passed by Congress or state legislatures.

As this week’s deadline looms for a report ordered by President Donald Trump, many Lumbee people believe the federal ...

The same year, the National Congress of ... barred the use of Native American imagery in school districts’ logos and mascots unless districts had permission from local tribes.

As an environmental historian, I study how Native Americans have shaped environmental management. Tribal nations are the longest stewards of the lands today known as the United ... Native peoples. In ...

Representatives from the native American tribe are ... Though acts of Congress and Supreme Court rulings, Kersh said he is able to prove that his tribe is one recognized by the federal government.

Poverty was widespread, as it still is today. Armed Lumbee and other Robeson County Native Americans confront ... have a ripple effect on other tribes if Congress doesn’t earmark additional ...

As an environmental historian, I study how Native Americans have shaped environmental management. Tribal nations are the longest stewards of the lands today ... In 1953, Congress reversed ...