They do have their own culture but it's a mish mash of cultures, the problem is when these people pass their culture off as uniquely Native American---->it isn't, and they've been called out for it by all the existing Carolina tribes for generations...
These muhfukkas have tried for well over a century to attach themselves to actual tribes, the truth is the area they are native to, was void of Indigenous people for awhile before it was settled, then was settled by a mixture of runaway and escaped slaves, then freed slaves, as well as various whites from surrounding areas who moved into the region, and then some existing Natives who'd already married/blended into white families and some who married into us...
The last time there was an actual Indigenous population in that area predates colonization and is dated no one knows who they were, because post-colonization, all the actual tribes of Carolina were located elsewhere. The area these "Indians" claim was basically unpopulated country fields and trees until all the groups I just mentioned started moving in...
There's a Native history there, but it's archaic. The actual settlement of the area post-colonization, those Natives who did appear were not of one group or tribe and came in the waves with black folk and white folk from other parts of NC and SC...
Even the name "Lumbee" as a cultural identifier, tribal name, is young as fukk and doesn't appear anywhere before the 1910s/1920s. These nikkaa made this shyt up from scratch, these muhfukkas have claimed ancestry to like 5 or 6 different tribes. They made this shyt up outta folklore...
For those of us who aren't from that area we side-eye these racially confused muhfukkas, and again this includes the actual Natives that still exist in Carolina. Their culture is basically some classic Deep South, backwoods redneck shyt with splashes of Native customs that they took from actual tribes, and a pinch of African-American culture...
It's the wildest shyt, they exist in they own bubble. Very few people outside The area respect these people and once you get to know some and spend time around them you respect them even less. And the native Black folk to the area are on some backwoods Get Out, Sunken Place shyt.
@DaKidFromNoWhere is from there and the people from there don't see what we see from the outside looking in...
So the problem isn't that they have their own culture, it's the generational lying about what that culture actually is and the general personalities of the people who identify as "Lumbee", they are largely anti-black, white idolizing, culturally confused rednecks...