Presidential Memorandum 2025-02124 explained · Presidential Memorandum
Federal Recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
Signed: 2025-01-23 Published: 2025-01-31 Federal Register document: 2025-02124
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Presidential Memorandum 2025-02124 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 20 (Friday, January 31, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 20 (Friday, January 31, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 8653-8654] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-02124] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 20 / Friday, January 31, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 8653]] Memorandum of January 23, 2025 Federal Recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina Memorandum for the Secretary of the Interior Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, known as the People of the Dark Water, have a long and storied history. The tribe's members were descendants of several tribal nations from the Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan language families, including the Hatteras, the Tuscarora, and the Cheraw. The waters of the Lumbee River and lands that surround it have protected and provided for the Lumbee people for centuries despite war, disease, and many other perils. In 1885, the State of North Carolina recognized the Lumbee people as an Indian tribe. 1885 N.C. Sess. Laws 92. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Lumbee Act (Public Law 84-570, 70 Stat. 254), which recognized the Lumbee as the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina but denied Lumbee Indians Federal benefits associated with such recognition. Today, according to...
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