Lumbee Homecoming has always been about history. It is the celebration of a tribal history that has and never will be adequately and truthfully told to our Lumbee children in our state textbooks and classrooms. It is a celebrative history of a southeastern woodlands native people’s survival and amazing achievements since the founding of this state and nation, to modern times.

      Thanks are due to the Pembroke Jaycees and the Town of Pembroke who in the late 1960s saw the need to begin Lumbee Homecoming so our ancient tribal “village” sense of family, community, pride and unity could be strengthened and carried forward for future generations of Lumbee children.

      This is our 43^rd celebration combined! Over the past 43 years the elected leadership of the Lumbee Tribe has done an outstanding job fighting for our rights to services and funding in Raleigh and Washington, DC as a non-federally recognized, but state recognized tribe.

                 Lumbee Homecoming is also about celebrating our political clout as a tribal body politic and our unique cultural values hewed over centuries that shape also how we seek to determine our own destiny through active participation in state and national political processes.

      To help shape our own positive tribal self-concept as a people and to perpetuate our heritage and identity for our children’s sake, as a tribe, is what Lumbee Homecoming is all about. It also showcases our many economic, educational, social, and cultural contributions to our county, state and nation as a people of a strong work ethic and strong spiritual values system centered on the importance of family.