'If You Are Not at the Table, You Are on the Menu’: Lumbee Government Strategies under State Recognition
State recognition of Indigenous nations is a viable, although often overlooked, tool to assert sovereignty. State-recognized Indigenous peoples have persevered to exercise governing authority despite the inability to establish a direct relationship with the federal government. The strategies of self-governance often require nations to build relationships and institutions necessary to exercise their inherent sovereignty. Analysis of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina illuminates how a state-recognized community has developed successful strategies outside of federal recognition to operate as a nation...
Citation
Hiraldo, Danielle V. “‘If You Are Not at the Table, You Are on the Menu’: Lumbee Government Strategies under State Recognition.” Native American and Indigenous Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020, pp. 36–61. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/natiindistudj.7.1.0036.