Gauging the success of an event by how fast the ice cream sells out might seem a bit strange to some folks. To Jessica Eaton Guyer, curator of the Tuscarora Academy Museum in Mifflin, the tasty treats ...

The Lumbee have been accustomed to living in this federal limbo, which has been their state for more than half a century.

When Goodwin was elected to the state House in 2018, he made Locklear a promise: He would do everything in his power to get state recognition for the Tuscarora people. The long-sought designation ...

Restore official state recognition to the Tuscarora Indians of Kahtenuaka Territories. Ensure Tuscarora representation on the N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs. Acknowledge the Tuscarora’s historical ...

President Trump made good on a campaign promise to ask the Department of the Interior to recognize the Lumbee people of North Carolina — a tribe whose Native identity has long been called into ...

Elisha Locklear, a Tuscarora historian, said some tribes think of the Tuscarora as violent, radical, and rough around the edges—maybe not the best qualities to be associated with in the buttoned-down ...

UNC-Chapel Hill's American Indian Center is granting amą:i Steward Awards to highlight Native presence and heritage in areas across the state.

The ongoing controversy over Native American artifacts discovered in a Carteret County subdivision took a violent turn last ...

Given the thousands of years the site may have been inhabited before European settlers arrived, Southerly has said, it’s possible many tribes lived there over the generations.

Without state recognition, members of the Tuscarora Nation are excluded from several benefits typically afforded to Native American tribes. “We are no longer able to compete in powwows, enter ...