This week on Native Bidaské, Native News Online Editor Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) interviews Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina Chairman John Lowery. Lowery discusses the long journey ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lumbee Tribal Chairman John L. Lowery (Photo/Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) Guest Opinion. For nearly 140 years, the Lumbee Tribe ...

PEMBROKE — Lumbee Tribal Chairman John Lowery shared the following on Friday in his weekly video update on the Tribe’s federal recognition transition: PEMBROKE — Lumbee Tribal Chairman John Lowery ...

After a 137-year struggle, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition from the U.S. government. Members of the Native American tribe shed tears as it reached the ...

PEMBROKE, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's been an uphill battle for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina to gain full federal recognition for as long as Jo Ann Chavis Lowery can remember. "We're here. We've been ...

PEMBROKE, N.C. — Members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina are awaiting the release of a Department of the Interior report that, as soon as this week, could light a path for federal recognition as ...

Lily Hunt of Fayetteville, a member of the Lumbee Tribe, smiles as she prepares for a switch dance during the Dix Park Inter-Tribal Pow Wow in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, August 26, 2023. Ethan Hyman ...

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 ...

Ph. D. University of California, Davis 2016. NMAI copy 39088018925503 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. This study investigates the experiences of a sample of Lumbee Indian ...

ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. — A Native American tribe in North Carolina has officially become one of roughly 575 tribes nationwide recognized and listed by the federal government. The Department of the ...

This month’s People’s Table event marked the first celebration post federal recognition. Lumbee Chairman John Lowery said the tribe, along with the LRDA, plans to host additional celebratory events in ...