Lumbee Federal Recognition:

Procedures are used today in all areas of life§including business, education, politics and as in§this study to determine a groups ethnicity. American§Indians are the only ethnic group that must petition§to the United States government to validate legally§their ethnicity.§§The purpose of the current study was to explore the§effects of social exclusion threat negative affect on§the evaluated fairness of a procedure that functions§to validate ethnic membership using the Dimensional§Voice Model (Bane, 1994). It was hypothesized that§a procedure designed to validate ethnic membership§will result in social exclusion threat negative§affect. A procedure designed to validate ethnic§membership was hypothesized as being evaluated as§unfair(Thibaut, Walker, LaTour, & Houlden, 1974). §Justifications before the procedure was tested as the§rationale for the procedure introduced as procedural§justification. The results suggest that procedures§designed to validate ethnic membership were evaluated§as unfair. Additionally, the results indicated that§procedural justifications might affect perceptions of§fairness of the procedure. Implications for Lumbee§Federal Recognition are discussed.