A persistent people’s long quest for justice

From newsobserver.com/opinion, by RYAN A. EMANUEL, assistant professor of hydrology, NC State University CARY -- It is painful seeing important legislation languish on the House or Senate floor for a year or more only to expire at the end of a congressional session. Multiplying that feeling by 61 sessions of Congress gives a sense of the frustration and looming disappointment felt by North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe, American Indians who have been petitioning Congress for federal recognition since 1888. Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/15/862196/a-persistent-peoples-long-quest.html