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Unfinished Business: Lumbee Recognition Has Political Implications in 2020

November 30, 2020 by Debby Warren Leave a Comment

Why would a county in rural North Carolina primarily made up of people of color vote for Donald Trump? That’s just what Robeson County did, giving 58.6 percent of its ballots in 2020 to the President, up from 50.8 percent in 2016. Both by percentage and raw number of votes, support for Trump over the four […]

Filed Under: Nonprofit Quarterly Tagged With: Lumbee, North Carolina

Convolutions of Race and Identity: The Lumbee Struggle for Sovereignty

October 30, 2019 by Debby Warren Leave a Comment

Federally “recognized” but denied the sovereign status that 573 other tribal nations have, the 55,000-strong Lumbee Indians—the largest tribe east of the Mississippi—reside in the margins of US definitions of race, culture, and sovereignty. They lack access to the federal funds—limited though they are—for housing, schools, and health granted to the nation’s 573 federally recognized tribal nations, leaving […]

Filed Under: Nonprofit Quarterly Tagged With: Identity, Lumbee, Racial Equity

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