Lumbee pipelines : American Indian movement in the residue of settler colonialism / David Shane Lowry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowry, David Shane, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lumbee Indians--Ethnic identity.

Lumbee Indians.

Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

Lumbee Indians--Government relations.

Lumbee Indians--Tribal citizenship.

Settler colonialism--North Carolina.

Settler colonialism.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]

Summary:

"David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or "pipelines," through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina engineer settler-colonial conditions to maintain their national identity, community practices, and tribal sovereignty"-- Provided by publisher.

"In Lumbee Pipelines David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or "pipelines," through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina maintain Lumbee national identity, community practices, and tribal sovereignty. Through extensive ethnographic research and contextualization, Lowry explores these pipelines: the programs and traditions through which the Lumbee people engineer the settler-colonial conditions that define life in North Carolina and the United States as a whole. Even as the Lumbee community depends on the economics, politics, and histories of settler colonialism, those realities at once threaten Lumbee life, freedom, and community. Despite that conflict, Lumbee people use these pipelines to protect their interests and to influence the world in the realms of public infrastructure and education, healthcare services, humanitarian networks, fossil fuel pipelines, environmental degradation, and artificial intelligence. Lowry paints an intimate portrait of how individual Lumbees define their identities and sense of being, revealing the disputes and affinities between Lumbee community members in various states of accepting and rejecting settler-colonial circumstances.Lumbee Pipelines engages conversations about how, even as American Indian identities and communities are often erased amid the business of contemporary American life, Lumbee people have devised ways to empower and enrich themselves and other peoples by repurposing and evading the genocidal pressures that define settler-colonial society. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations

Theme Music

A Presidential Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Traffic(k)

2. Relief

3. Lumbee Pedagogy

4. Clinical Vignette

5. Dark Water

6. Artificially Indigenous

Pipeline Is Not a Metaphor (A Conclusion)

Appendix: Letter to Tribal Council

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496232793

1496232798

OCLC:

1450350213