That's how long the Lumbee have been denied federal recognition. Now, President Donald Trump is pushing for that to change.

Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

Another month has passed with no foresable movement on legislation that would provide full federal legitacy to the Lumbee Nation, which has for more than a century seen nothing but ...