The Lumbee Indians : an American struggle / Malinda Maynor Lowery.
"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 sto...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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Table of 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.