The Indians now residing in small communities in Hertford, Bertie, Gates, and Northampton Counties, who in 1726 were granted reservational lands at the mouth of the Meherrin River in the vicinity of present-day Parker's Ferry near Winton in Hertford County, and who are of the same linguistic stock as the Cherokee, Tuscarora, and other tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy of New York and Canada, shall, from and after July 20, 1971, be designated and officially recognized as the Meherrin Tribe of North Carolina, and shall continue to enjoy all their rights, privileges, and immunities as citizens of the State as now or hereafter provided by law, and shall continue to be subject to all the obligations and duties of citizens under the law.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 71A-7.1
Meherrin Tribe of North Carolina; rights, privileges, immunities, obligations and duties
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 197 N.C. App. 380 - Meherrin Indian Tribe v. Lewis (2009)
Most recently applied in 219 N.C. App. 558 - Meherrin Tribe v. North Carolina State Commission of Indian Affairs (April 2012)
2003-54, s. 2.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.