Robeson Co. teen first awarded college scholarship based on Lumbee Tribe’s recognition

ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. (WPDE) — Kennedy Jones of Pembroke is a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kennedy said she’d received a scholarship to study biology and Native American studies.

Back in August, she said she was told her scholarship was being rescinded because the Lumbee Tribe, of which she’s a member, wasn’t recognized at the federal level…

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