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Please share with your neighbors and elders in your community. Mark your calendar for the American Indian Health Fair Festival on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at the Lumbee Tribe Cultural Center. The theme is "Falling Back to Healthy Living by Honoring Our Ancestors." The services at the event will include a Blood Drive Blood pressure Checks Glucose Screening Mental Health Services Sickle Cell Testing Cancer Screenings The event is from 10 am till 2 pm and is sponsored by WellCare, UNC Pembroke and the Lumbee Tribe of N.C. The Lumbee Tribe Cultural Center is located on 824 Terry Sanford Dr. in Maxton, NC 28364.

American Indian Heritage Month has been a busy one for the Lumbee Tribe and our Culture team as we celebrate American Indian Culture! The staff at Scotland Regional Hospice welcomed our Lumbee Tribe Culture team with open arms to participate in their American Indian Heritage Program. It was a great day to honor the Hospice staff for what they do, as well as share the story and tradition of the Native flute, demonstrate blowgun weaponry, showcase the Lumbee Pinecone Patchwork dress and women's Southern Traditional Dance Style. Thank you, Scotland Regional Hospice, for the opportunity!

Celebrating our past, hand in hand with our future! American Indian Heritage Month has kicked off with great flair as programs across the nation showcase Native History and Culture. Almost 3,000 students learned about our Lumbee History, culture and traditions and even weaponry at GPAC at our youth event this week on the campus of UNC Pembroke. Thank you to our Lumbee Culture Team, all of our dancers, singers the Lumbee Ambassadors, Senior Ms. Lumbee Carolyn Emanuel and Drowning Creek for sharing about Native culture at the annual Lumbee American Indian Culture Day event. The students also had an opportunity to see traditional dancing, learn about Eastern Woodland tribal ways, language and much more. The two performances welcomed students from Kindergarten through 8th grade students. Thank you to everyone who worked to make this event a great success.

It was a blessing this week to see so many of our farm neighbors, community members and friends, but especially young people attend the 9th Annual American Indian Heritage Month Ag Celebration. This annual event celebrates Native Culture and stresses the importance of agriculture and the important roles of Native farmers throughout Robeson County. Ronald Hammonds, Lumbee farmer from the Saddletree Community, received an appreciation award for his contributions to local agriculture. The event also honored Mrs. Sybil Bullard in remembrance of her late husband and farmer Mr. Danny Bullard. High School FFA members attended from Purnell Swett High, Lumberton High and St. Pauls High Schools. Thank you to these young people for taking time to honor come out to meet and honor our farmers and assist in serving lunch. Members from USDA included Director Reginald Speights, USDA Tribal Liaison Pamela Sunshine Richardson. Also in attendance was members from USDA Rural Development, NRCS, Wildlife Conservation, Soil and Water Conservation.

The Lumbee Tribe of N.C.invites you to a Veterans Day Ceremony on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. as we honor all Veterans who served this nation as they protected freedom. The program will be at the Lumbee Tribe Housing Complex at 6984 Highway 711 in Pembroke NC.

The Lumbee Tribe Housing Complex and all Lumbee Tribal Offices will be closed on Monday, November 11, 2024 in observance of Veterans Day.

Thank you to Campbell Soup of Maxton for welcoming the Lumbee Tribe of N.C. and our Culture Team for their Annual American Indian Heritage Smudging Ceremony. Campbell Soup and many of its employees participated in a sacred smudging ceremony as well as a beautiful honor song to celebrate and honor the occasion. Campbell Soup, located within our Lumbee Tribal Territory, employs a number of tribal citizens. The company is also a great community partner by going above and beyond to support outreach initiatives.

Thank you to Robeson Community College for spotlighting American Indian Culture during the 4th Annual Native American Heritage Month Cultural Exhibition this week. The event featured special entertainment, a powwow featuring the Lumbee Ambassadors, Senior Ms. Lumbee Carolyn Emanuel, song and dance, storytelling, craft vendors, and much more. School children from across the region filled the center lawn of the RCC campus, as well as students, faculty, staff and community members.

Pembroke, NC (November 6, 2024) – On Sunday, October 27, 2024, a delegation representing the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina arrived at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Annual Convention to unwelcome news. Earlier that day the NCAI Executive Committee decided that it would suspend the membership of 14 Tribal Members from renewing their memberships for the 2024-2025 membership year as a result of the recommendations of the Membership Integrity, Education, and Healing Taskforce. All 14 of those Tribal Members were State-recognized. The Lumbee Delegation, along with our partners, led the way in receiving an explanation from NCAI leadership. While we do understand the need for Membership Integrity, NCAI’s stated reason for the membership review lacked the Education and Healing components that had been promised as part of the Taskforce. This need for Education and Healing was brought to the forefront on Tuesday, October 29, 2024 as the NCAI membership found slanderous flyers at every seat, a product produced, by the “so called” United Indian Tribes of Oklahoma group. This material provided a false summation of the legislative impacts of the Lumbee Fairness Act and a link to a website with a grossly misleading “summary” of Lumbee history. NCAI issued both a public denouncement of the action on the stage at the end of that morning’s general session, but also a written apology to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina denouncing the flyer as a violation of the NCAI Code of Conduct. The Lumbee Tribe is currently reviewing legal options against the “so called” United Indian Tribes of Oklahoma group for their defamation of character against us. We will not stand for these slanderous actions toward our Tribal Nation! The Lumbee Tribe has been a member of NCAI for decades. Lumbee Tribal members have proudly stood with and served Indian Country and will continue to do so. We are thankful to our close friends and allies from the many federal and state tribes who continue to work together against these oppressive and divisive behaviors. ###