I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2758 
To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 22, 2021 
Mr. BUTTERFIELD (for himself, Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina, Mr. PRICE 
of North Carolina, and Mr. HUDSON) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North 
Carolina, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lumbee Recognition 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL RECOGNITION. 
The Act of June 7, 1956 (70 Stat. 254, chapter 375), 
is amended— 
(1) by striking section 2; 
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(2) in the first sentence of the first section, by 
striking ‘‘That the Indians’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF LUMBEE INDIANS. 
‘‘The Indians’’; 
(3) in the preamble— 
(A) by inserting before the first undesig-
nated clause the following: 
‘‘SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
‘‘Congress finds that—’’; 
(B) 
by 
designating 
the 
undesignated 
clauses as paragraphs (1) through (4), respec-
tively, and indenting appropriately; 
(C) by striking ‘‘Whereas’’ each place it 
appears; 
(D) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon 
at the end of each of paragraphs (1) and (2) 
(as so designated); and 
(E) in paragraph (4) (as so designated), by 
striking ‘‘: Now, therefore,’’ and inserting a pe-
riod; 
(4) by moving the enacting clause so as to ap-
pear before section 1 (as so designated); 
(5) by striking the last sentence of section 3 (as 
designated by paragraph (2)); 
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(6) by inserting before section 3 (as designated 
by paragraph (2)) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘In this Act: 
‘‘(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
‘‘(2) TRIBE.—The term ‘Tribe’ means the 
Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina or the Lumbee In-
dians of North Carolina.’’; and 
(7) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 4. FEDERAL RECOGNITION. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Federal recognition is extended 
to the Tribe (as designated as petitioner number 65 by 
the Office of Federal Acknowledgment). 
‘‘(b) APPLICABILITY OF LAWS.—All laws and regula-
tions of the United States of general application to Indi-
ans and Indian tribes shall apply to the Tribe and its 
members. 
‘‘(c) PETITION FOR ACKNOWLEDGMENT.—Notwith-
standing section 3, any group of Indians in Robeson and 
adjoining counties, North Carolina, whose members are 
not enrolled in the Tribe (as determined under section 
5(d)) may petition under part 83 of title 25 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations for acknowledgment of tribal exist-
ence. 
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