Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South : race, identity, and the making of a nation /
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...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | First peoples (2010)
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Table of Contents:
- Adapting to segregation
- Making home and making leaders
- Taking sides
- Confronting the New Deal
- Pembroke Farms : gaining economic autonomy
- Measuring identity
- Recognizing the Lumbee
- Conclusion : creating a Lumbee and Tuscarora future.