To ensure that no Federal law shall prevent the Tuscarora Nation of Indians of the Carolinas from seeking Federal recognition as an Indian tribe, and for other purposes.

Prohibits neither the Lumbee Act of June 7, 1956, (relating to the designation of certain Indian inhabitants of North Carolina as the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina) nor the federally recognized status of any Indian tribe from preventing the Tuscarora Nation of Indians of the Carolinas from seeking or attaining federal recognition as an Indian tribe.