A lobbying push by North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe to get full governmental recognition attached to annual defense legislation now reveals the tribe’s newfound link to one of President Donald Trump’s children.
The effort entailed digging into genealogical records to show Trump’s youngest daughter, Tiffany, is a descendant of the “most prominent” line of the Native American Lumbee Tribe.
The tribe, which has been seeking full federal recognition for years, told Trump in a Sept. 6 letter that Tiffany Trump is a direct descendant of an ancestor of present-day enrolled members of the tribe. The letter is part of an intense ...