Did you know the following tribes are represented in the Nash County school district?

Haliwa-Saponi: The name Haliwa is derived from the two counties: Halifax and Warren, which are the ancestral homelands of the Saponi people dating from the 1730s. They re-organized and adopted their current form of government in 1953 and were recognized in 1965 by the state of North Carolina.

Chickasaw Nation: The Chickasaw Nation established its Constitution of 1856 during huge gatherings at Good Spring (now Tishomingo, Oklahoma), and they established their own territory in present-day, south-central Oklahoma.

Lumbee: The Lumbee Tribe was recognized by North Carolina in 1885. In 1956, the U.S. Congress passed the Lumbee Act which recognized the Lumbees as being American Indians. The Lumbee take their name from the Lumber River, which winds through Robeson County, North Carolina.

Navajo Nation: Established in 1868, the majority of the Navajo Nation extends into the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, covering over 27,000 square miles.

Tohono O’odham: Historically, the O’odham inhabited an enormous area of land in the southwest, extending South to Sonora, Mexico, north to Central Arizona (just north of Phoenix, Arizona), west to the Gulf of California, and east to the San Pedro River. In 1917, the main Tohono O’odham reservation was established.