About time! These comments regarding poverty in the non-Indian community are true - SO -Let these non-Indian people, who elected their own politicians, go to their own kind for a remedy! Guess they wont get too far! Greed rules. If you want to see real poverty go to any reservation on the North American continent and experience what its like. As an American Indian I can say without reserve - WE ARE THE FIRST PEOPLE OF AMERICA, all the rest are from other places. Our lands, culture and dignity have been stolen - in the past and to the present day. The Lumbee deserve Federal recognition and anything of a positive nature that it can give back to them. Having Federal recognition does not make anyone of us 'more' Indian. Just allows the laws of the wasicun(s) to give us a chance to retrive that which has been stolen. There are times when the Gov. laws backfire!!! CONGRATS TO ALL LUMBEES! and especially to Jimmy Boy Dial who has never been afraid to stand up and be counted!! AHO!

and I can(long-hair cherokee)pearl river Mississippi by way of Quandra Bound my quote is their statement...when governmewnt says consideration that means what??? and you have enough discourse within your own lands...dont need to look further..is that blunt enough for you Locklear,redwolf,nina..have seen nothing from government that didnt come with instructions on string attachments.......

Trust me, I strongly agree with that. Since you care so much about other people as well, Why don't you go out and fight for them like I am for my people?

The what about other poverty stricken areas in this country? What about all the homeless & hungry? Why should we not give them all enough money as well?

It will be spent on everyone. Some of our people, I agree have succeeded in not haveing to have a hand out; but there are alot of my people who are living in poverty. It would be for schools, health care, homes built for the poverty level people, and everything that our people need to intially survive. It is not looking for a handout it is looking for a hand up. Noone trully knows or understands the extent of poverty,having alot of violence,commiting crimes to survive, or turning on one another; because they feel that there is no more love in the world. Unless they have been there themselves.