The Lumbee Tribe’s federal recognition is assured with a final push by Trump

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER

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 Congress.

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