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Mark your calendar Key Dates of Upcoming Tribal Events May 14 - Ground Blessing Ceremony, Districts 12 & 19 - 4 pm - 1108 McColl Rd, Laurinburg May 20 - Lumbee Days | Raleigh May 24 - Veterans Stand Down - 10 am - 2 pm May 31 - June 1 Eastern Woodland Foodways Workshop & Feast - Indian Ed., Pembroke, NC. May 31 - American Indian Mental Health Awareness Event - 10 AM to 2 PM - Lumbee Tribe Cultural Center June 20 - Senior Ms. Lumbee Pageant - Pre Show 6 pm| GPAC June 24 to July 6 - Annual Lumbee Homecoming June 30 - State of the Tribe Address - 6:30 pm | Pembroke Boys & Girls Club July 1 - Lumbee Holdings, Inc. Shareholders Meeting - 11 am | Pembroke Boys & Girls Club July 5 - Lumbee Homecoming Parade - 10:00 am | Pembroke, NC July 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, and 26 - Strike At The Wind! - Pre-show 6:30 pm Lumbee Tribe Cultural Center August 16 - Lumbee Tribe Gala | Shahbain Farms and Event Center, 469 Posey Farm Road in Raeford, N.C. September 26-28 - Lumbee Tribe “Dance of the Harvest Moon” Powwow | Lumbee Tribe Cultural Center October 4 - Lumbee Tribe Fish Fry - 11 am | Lumbee Tribe Cultural Center

Tickets go on Sale Monday, May 12, 2025 at 9:00 am at Givens Performing Arts Center. Please join us for the Senior Ms. Lumbee Pageant on Friday, June 20, 2025 at 6:30 pm at Givens Performing Arts Center on the campus of UNC Pembroke. Tickets are available at Givens Performing Arts Center $20 + tax at Box Office $20 + tax and fees Online (Limit of 10 tickets per person) Your contestants are Shirley Lowry Ava Maria Locklear Lottie Lowery Locklear Sandra S. Dial Wendy Chavis Locklear Shelia A. Jacobs For more information call 910.521.6361 or https://www.uncp.edu/.../special.../senior-miss-lumbee

You are invited to the District 6 Community Meeting on Monday, May 19, 2025, at 6:00 pm at Berea Baptist Church located at 120 N Odum St, Pembroke, NC. The event is hosted by Councilman Larry Chavis. The meeting will offer information about tribal services and community information. Dinner will be served.

Mark your calendar to join us for a day of fellowship and cultural sharing with the Lumbee Tribe of N.C. during this special day at the N.C. General Assembly on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. The event will be held at the Halifax Mall from 10 am - 2 pm at 300 N. Salisbury St. in Raleigh, NC. There will be Lumbee artisans and much more.

We look forward to seeing you TONIGHT at the Monday, May 5, 2025, evening Culture class. The class will be at the Pembroke Boys & Girls Club. The first (1) beading workshop will continue and there will be other cultural activities for those not regsitered in the beading workshop.

Senior Ms. Lumbee Carolyn McNeill Emanuel encourages you to check your Blood Pressure often to stay healthy for you and your family. The American Heart Association is collaborating with the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. As part of this, the American Heart Association installed a Blood Pressure Station in the lobby of the Lumbee Tribe Housing Complex on Highway 711 in Pembroke, NC. It's available for anyone to check their blood pressure. Also be sure to pick up one of the new handouts with Senior Ms. Carolyn's photo that will be available to give you more information and blood pressure tips.

Lumbee students, mark your calendars for the Lumbee Tribe Scholarship application, which will be available in June 2025. Please be sure to follow the Lumbee Tribe's social media and website for the announcement of the scholarship date!

Tonight, our Lumbee Tribal Council took time to celebrate some of our young people who are doing amazing during the April Business Meeting. The council recognized Ava Grace Cummings. Ava, a senior at NC School of Science and Mathematics, recently won 2nd place and $175,000 prize at the 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search. Her project focused on STAC3 disorder — also known as Native American myopathy — a rare genetic muscle disorder that primarily affects the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Ava's parents are Jason and Synora Hunt Cummings. Ava was joined by her family. She is Preacher Mike and Sister Quae and Rev. Clyde and Monnie Hunt's Grandchild.

Save the date and mark your calendar to join us for the Third Annual Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina’s Gala "Protecting our Past, Moving Toward Our Future” on August 16, 2025. It will be an evening to remember. Together, we will increase our efforts toward full Federal Recognition, acknowledgment and benefits, which will make a difference in the daily lives of our elders, children, and community. Join us at the Shahbain Farms and Event Center, 469 Posey Farm Road in Raeford, N.C. Online ticket sales will begin June 2, 2025.

We are excited about the ongoing research by Lumbee Citizen and Appalachian State Professor Dr. Seth Grooms and his students from the Appalachian State University. Dr. Grooms and a team of ASU students recently spent their Spring Break in the Lumbee Tribal territory doing a second field season of research work of the Lumbee River Archaeology Project (LRAP). The team has unearthed artifacts such Woodland Period check and cord pots and sherds, and Late Woodland period arrowhead (Caraway type). Dr. Grooms co-founded LRAP with Jeff Currie, Harlen Chavis, and Kevin Melvin (all Lumbee citizens) in 2024. The goal of LRAP is to supplement understanding of the life ways of Lumbee ancestors by studying the things they left behind. LRAP is a community-based and tribally led project that trains students and community members in basic archaeological methods and aims to enhance the tribe’s capacity to document and preserve ancestral sites. The first area surveyed by the LRAP team has turned out to be a significant site that was occupied by Native people at least as far back as ~6,000 years ago. The artifacts recovered so far suggest the site was likely occupied more or less continuously to European Contact. The Lumbee Tribe looks forward to continuing to work with Dr. Grooms and we thank him and his team for continuing their interest and support of our Lumbee Tribal history.