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

Trump directed the Department of the Interior Thursday to provide a plan within 90 days on how to get the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina federal recognition through legislation or other means ...

The memorandum directs the Department of the Interior to promote and pursue federal recognition of North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe and submit a plan within 90 days.

North Carolna's Lumbee Tribe, which has sought federal recognition for decades, is getting a major boost from President Donald Trump. Trump, in his first week back in office, signed a presidential ...

In the Haywood County Courthouse, on Monday, Jan. 6, Shelli Buckner who previously served as an interim lead prosecutor for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was sworn in as an Assistant District ...

Tutiyi (Snowbird) and Clyde, N.C. “We’re in a great battle across this nation and it’s around identity, it’s around this federal recognition process – something that, over the past couple weeks, we’ve ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — President Donald Trump recommends full federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. It is the largest tribe east of the Mississippi River. "I love the Lumbee ...

NORTH CAROLINA — North Carolina will get a cut of a nationwide opioid settlement. Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners agreed to more than $7 billion. It is tied to claims that OxyContin caused ...

It took only four weeks for a west Davidson County-area church and a Welcome-community restaurant to raise $70,000 needed to ...

The ruling does not mean that the monthslong battle over the results of the state Supreme Court election are over – far from ...

Statehouse reporters Gavin Jackson, Russ McKinney and Maayan Schechter are back at the Capitol reporting what you need to ...