Federal Recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina

This memorandum establishes that it is the policy of the United States to support full federal recognition, including the authority to receive full federal benefits, of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. It directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with Lumbee Tribe leadership, to review all applicable authorities and submit to the President within 90 days a plan to assist the tribe in obtaining full federal recognition through legislation or other available mechanisms, including analysis of each potential legal pathway such as an act of Congress, judicial action, or the acknowledgment procedures in 25 CFR part 83.

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No known legal challenges.