Protest targets Lumbee Tribe's housing program
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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National
Members of the
Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina are upset with the way tribal leaders are handling federal housing funds.
About 75 members held a protest outside the tribal offices on Monday. They presented a petition with 200 signatures that calls for an audit of housing funds and for the tribe to provide more money to elders and the disabled.
The tribe is reportedly under federal investigation into its housing funds. The tribe receives between $10 million and $12 million from the the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development every year.
Get the Story:
Tribal members protest Lumbee housing program
(The Fayetteville Observer 4/15)
Sen. Elizabeth Dole:
Inaccuracy reported in Lumbee issue (The Fayetteville Observer 4/15)
Lumbees cite woeful tribe housing (News 14 4/14)
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