The Lumbee Indians : an American struggle Malinda Maynor Lowery

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowery, Malinda Maynor, author.

Series:

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lumbee Indians--North Carolina--History.

Lumbee Indians.

Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

Indians of North America--North Carolina.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

xix, 304 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

"As the largest tribe east of the Mississippi and the ninth largest in the country, the Lumbees have survived in their original homelands, maintaining a distinct identity as Indians in a bi-racial South. In a work both concise and expansive, Lumbee historian Malinda Maynor Lowery tells this story of survival with a breakthrough approach to rigorous scholarship and personal storytelling. The Lumbees' journey sheds new light on America's defining moments, from the first encounters with Europeans to the present day. How and why did the Lumbees fight to establish and resist the United States? 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 determination continues to transform our view of the American experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

A genealogy

Interlude : Watts Street Elementary School, Durham, North Carolina, 1978

Introduction

Interlude : what are you?

We have always been a free people : encountering Europeans

Interlude : homecoming

Disposed to fight to their death : independence

Interlude : family outlaws and family bibles

In defiance of all laws : removal and insurrection

Interlude : whole and pure

The justice to which we are entitled : segregation and assimilation

Interlude : Pembroke, North Carolina, 1960

Integration or disintegration : civil rights and red power

Interlude : journeys, 1972-1988

They can kill me, but they can't eat me : the drug war

Interlude : Cherokee Chapel Holiness Methodist Church, Wakulla, North Carolina, January 2010

A creative state, not a welfare state : creating a constitution

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-286) and index.

Local Notes:

The Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection.

The William Lanier North Carolina Collection.

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

9781469646374

1469646374

OCLC:

1025358335