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NC Lumbee lawmaker questions Josh Stein’s appointment of Cherokee chief
elect Josh Stein choosing a Cherokee chief for his transition team ... up a very small percentage of the American Indian population of North Carolina, money from his FOUR casinos can wield ...
Smithsonian Magazine5y
The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
Principal Chief Bill John Baker ... thousand U.S. Army soldiers rounded up Cherokee families at bayonet point. About a thousand Cherokees fled to North Carolina, where their descendants live ...
Raleigh News & Observer24d
‘Hostile, racist’ adults targeted Cherokee girls’ high school basketball team, chief says
Michell Hicks is principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE ... which borders Georgia in southwestern North Carolina. Hayesville is about 100 miles southwest ...
Carolina Public Press5d
For Lumbee tribe, ‘the time has come’ to finally be federally recognized
That's how long the Lumbee have been denied federal recognition. Now, President Donald Trump is pushing for that to change.
The Robesonian7d
‘Time has come’ for full recognition
Another month has passed with no foresable movement on legislation that would provide full federal legitacy to the Lumbee ...
WMAR 2 News1d
Hampstead Volunteer Fire Company delivers medic unit to Native American Tribe
On Monday, March 16th members of HVFD delivered their 2010 Ford medic unit, Medic 28, to The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.