“Congress, Interior, the State of North Carolina and a federal court have now all confirmed what the Catawba people have said from the beginning – these lands are the ancestral homelands of the Catawba people, and we intend to use them to improve the life of all the people in the community.” Department of Interior’s action recognizing our historical and ancestral ties to North Carolina,” Catawba Nation Chief Bill Harris said in a press release. “The Catawba Indian Nation Lands Act reaffirms the U.S.
