The Lumbee Indians

The Lumbee Indians
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9781469646381
ISBN-13 : 1469646382
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lumbee Indians by : Malinda Maynor Lowery

Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different story. As the largest tribe east of the Mississippi and one of the largest in the country, the Lumbees have survived in their original homelands, maintaining a distinct identity as Indians in a biracial South. In this passionately written, sweeping work of history, Malinda Maynor Lowery narrates the Lumbees' extraordinary story as never before. The Lumbees' journey as a people sheds new light on America's defining moments, from the first encounters with Europeans to the present day. How and why did the Lumbees both fight to establish the United States and resist the encroachments of its government? How have they not just survived, but thrived, through Civil War, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and the war on drugs, to ultimately establish their own constitutional government in the twenty-first century? Their fight for full federal acknowledgment continues to this day, while the Lumbee people's struggle for justice and self-determination continues to transform our view of the American experience. Readers of this book will never see Native American history the same way.

Living Indian Histories

Living Indian Histories
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 0807855065
ISBN-13 : 9780807855065
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Living Indian Histories by : Gerald M. Sider

With more than 40,000 registered members, the Lumbee Indians are the ninth largest tribe in the United States and the largest east of the Mississippi River. Yet, despite the tribe's size, the Lumbee lack full federal recognition and their history has been

Lumbee Indian Histories

Lumbee Indian Histories
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0521466695
ISBN-13 : 9780521466691
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Lumbee Indian Histories by : Gerald M. Sider

Gerald Sider explores the dynamics of the struggle for racial and ethnic identities in the southern United States, focusing on the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina. He provides a history of American Indian concepts and visions of history and shows how differing interpretations of history cause traditionally oppressed peoples to continue their struggle.

Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South

Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9780807898284
ISBN-13 : 0807898287
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South by : Malinda Maynor Lowery

With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies for Indians throughout the nation. They did so against the backdrop of some of the central issues in American history, including race, class, politics, and citizenship. Lowery argues that "Indian" is a dynamic identity that, for outsiders, sometimes hinged on the presence of "Indian blood" (for federal New Deal policy makers) and sometimes on the absence of "black blood" (for southern white segregationists). Lumbee people themselves have constructed their identity in layers that tie together kin and place, race and class, tribe and nation; however, Indians have not always agreed on how to weave this fabric into a whole. Using photographs, letters, genealogy, federal and state records, and first-person family history, Lowery narrates this compelling conversation between insiders and outsiders, demonstrating how the Lumbee People challenged the boundaries of Indian, southern, and American identities.

The Only Land I Know

The Only Land I Know
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0815603606
ISBN-13 : 9780815603603
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Only Land I Know by : Adolph L. Dial

This is the standard history of the Lumbee Indian people of southwestern North Carolina, the largest Indian community in population east of the Mississippi. Dial and Eliades trace the history of this group through 1974. Among the subjects covered are the Lumbee during the colonial period and the revolutionary War; the Lowrie War; the infamous Lowrie Band of the Civil War; the development of the Lumbee educational system; Lumbee folklore; and the modern Lumbee.

The Lumbee Indians

The Lumbee Indians
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105009667572
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lumbee Indians by : Glenn Ellen Starr

Includes "Index to The Carolina Indian Voice" for January 18, 1973-February 4, 1993 (p. 189-248).

Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians

Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9780786413324
ISBN-13 : 0786413328
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians by : Arvis Locklear Boughman

"There's nothing happens to a person that can't be cured if you get what it takes to do it. We come out of the earth, and there's something in the earth to cure everything ... I don't fix a tonic until I'm sure what's wrong with a person. I don't make guesses. I have to be sure, because medicine can do bad as well as good, and I don't want to hurt anybody.... Maybe it takes some herbs. Maybe it takes some touching. But most of all, it takes faith"--Vernon Cooper, Lumbee healer. The Lumbee Indian tribe has lived in the coastal plain of North Carolina for centuries, and most Lumbee continue to live in rural areas of Robeson County with access to a number of healing plants and herbs used in the form of teas, poultices, and salves to treat common ailments. The first section of this book describes and documents the numerous plant and herbal remedies that the Lumbee have used for centuries and continue to use today. There are remedies for ailments relating to cancer (external and internal), the circulatory and digestive systems, the heart, hypertension and hypotension, infections and parasitic diseases, asthma, pregnancy, sprains, swellings, and muscle, skeletal and joint disorders, to name just a few. The second portion of this work records the words, recollections and wellness philosophies of living Lumbee elders, healers, and community leaders. The information presented in this book is not intended to be a substitute for the advice or treatment from a physician. The authors do not advocate self-diagnosis or self-medication, and warn that any plant substance may cause an allergic or extremely unhealthy reaction in some people.

Indians of North Carolina

Indians of North Carolina
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 474
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ISBN-10 : 9781469641768
ISBN-13 : 1469641763
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Indians of North Carolina by : O. M. McPherson

In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as "Cherokees," a designation that went largely unnoticed by the Federal Government. When the same Indians petitioned for Federal recognition and assistance in 1915, the Senate tasked the Office of Indian Affairs to report on the "tribal rights and conditions" of those Robeson County Indians. Special Indian Agent Orlando McPherson, a Midwesterner who was in the final stages of a long career as a civil servant, was commissioned to investigate. The resulting federal report is essentially literature review in the guise of fact-finding. It relies heavily on Robeson county legislator Hamilton McMillan's musings on the relationship between Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony and the Indians around Robeson County. The report reaches many erroneous conclusions, in part because it was based in an anthropological framework of white supremacy, segregation-era politics, and assumptions about racial "purity." In fact, later researchers would establish that the Lumbees, as Malinda Lowery writes, "are survivors from the dozens of tribes in that territory who established homes with the Native people, as well as free European and enslaved African settlers, who lived in what became their core homeland: the low-lying swamplands along the border of North and South Carolina." Excavations would later establish the presence of Native people in that homeland since at least 1000 A.D. Ironically, McPherson's murky colonial history connecting Lumbees to early colonial settlers was used to legitimize them and to deflect their categorization as African-Americans. The McPherson report documents one important phase of an Indian people's long path to self-determination and political recognition, a path that would designate them variously as Croatan, Cherokee Indians of Robeson County, Siouan Indians of the Lumber River, and finally, Lumbee--the title of their own choosing and the one we use today. A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.

The Lumbee Problem

The Lumbee Problem
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 0803261977
ISBN-13 : 9780803261976
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lumbee Problem by :

How does a group of people who have American Indian ancestry but no records of treaties, reservations, Native language, or peculiarly "Indian" customs come to be accepted?socially and legally?as Indians? Originally published in 1980, The Lumbee Problem traces the political and legal history of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, arguing that Lumbee political activities have been powerfully affected by the interplay between their own and others' conceptions of who they are. The book offers insights into the workings of racial ideology and practice in both the past and the present South?and particularly into the nature of Indianness as it is widely experienced among nonreservation Southeastern Indians. Race and ethnicity, as concepts and as elements guiding action, are seen to be at the heart of the matter. By exploring these issues and their implications as they are worked out in the United States, Blu brings much-needed clarity to the question of how such concepts are?or should be?applied across real and perceived cultural borders.

The Lumbee

The Lumbee
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Publisher : Chelsea House
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 155546713X
ISBN-13 : 9781555467135
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis The Lumbee by : Adolf L. Dial

Examines the history, culture, and current situation of the Lumbee Indians of the southeastern United States.