COMMENTARY – True Sovereignty and Transparency: No buts about it.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Lumbee should follow the OFA process

There is already an established, evidence-based process for a group to become Federally recognized as a ‘tribe”. The Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Federal Acknowledgment’s criteria to become Federally Recognized includes rigorous anthropological, genealogical,...
COMMENTARY: Put the sign back

COMMENTARY: Put the sign back

By ROBERT JUMPER Tutiyi (Snowbird) and Clyde, N.C.   A debate between the tribal business committee and the tribal museum has left the community without a roadside sign to alert those traveling on Tsali Blvd that there is a valuable source of education and...