Land Acknowledgement

North Carolina is home to eight federally or state-recognized tribes:

• Coharie
• Eastern Band of Cherokee
• Haliwa-Saponi
• Lumbee
• Meherrin
• Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
• Sappony
• Waccamaw Siouan

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke respectfully acknowledges that the lands within and surrounding present-day Robeson County are the traditional homelands and gathering places of many Indigenous peoples — notably the Lumbee.

We share an ongoing responsibility to safeguard these lands and to respect the sovereignty of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. UNC Pembroke honors all Indigenous elders  — past, present and emerging — who have been and remain an integral part of the history and culture of this region.