Descendants of the Original 22 are protesting the inclusion of historical information about the Original 22 in Lumbee documentation for federal recognition and in testimony at hearings on the current federal recognition bills. [Explanatory note: The Original 22 were certified by the Department of Interior’s Office of Indian Affairs in 1938 as 1/2 or more Indian blood (and thus eligible for benefits under the Indian Reorganization Act). In 1938, 209 of Robeson County’s Indians who had earlier organized and adopted the name Siouan applied for benefits under the Wheeler-Howard Indian Reorganization Act. All 209 were tested by Smithsonian anthropologist Carl Seltzer to determine their degree of Indian blood. The Siouans had adopted their tribal name in early 1934, when a bill was introduced in Congress to recognize the Indians of Robeson County under the name Siouan Indians of the Lumber River. This bill did not pass.] Descendants of the Original 22, we want the testimony about their relatives stricken from the records of the House and Senate committee hearings on Lumbee federal recognition. The Lumbee use of the 1938 certification of our relatives is “identity theft.