1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Lumbee Recognition Act . 2. Federal recognition The Act of June 7, 1956 (70 Stat. 254, chapter 375), is amended— (1) by striking section 2; (2) in the first sentence of the first section, by striking That the Indians and inserting the following: 3. Designation of Lumbee Indians The Indians ; (3) in the preamble— (A) by inserting before the first undesignated clause the following: 1. Findings Congress finds that— ; (B) by designating the undesignated clauses as paragraphs (1) through (4), respectively, and indenting appropriately; (C) by striking Whereas each place it appears; (D) by striking and after the semicolon at the end of each of paragraphs (1) and (2) (as so designated); and (E) in paragraph (4) (as so designated), by striking : Now, therefore, and inserting a period; (4) by moving the enacting clause so as to appear before section 1 (as so designated); (5) by striking the last sentence of section 3 (as designated by paragraph (2)); (6) by inserting before section 3 (as designated by paragraph (2)) the following: 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. (2) Tribe The term Tribe means the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina or the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina.