§ 71A-7.2. Occaneechi Band of Saponi Nation in North Carolina; rights, privileges, immunities, obligations and duties.
§ 71A‑7.2. OccaneechiBand of Saponi Nation in North Carolina; rights, privileges, immunities,obligations and duties.
The Indians now livingprimarily in the old settlement of Little Texas in Pleasant Grove Township,Alamance County, who are lineal descendants of the Saponi and related Indianswho occupied the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia in precontact times,and specifically of those Saponi and related Indians who formally becametributary to Virginia under the Treaties of Middle Plantation in 1677 and 1680,and who under the subsequent treaty of 1713 with the Colony of Virginia agreedto join together as a single community, shall, from and after July 20, 1971, bedesignated and officially recognized as the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nationof 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 citizensunder the law. (2003‑54,s. 2.)