Category: 15. Social sciences studies

476.  Kupferer, Harriet J., and John A. Humphrey.  “Fatal Indian violence in North Carolina.”  Anthropological quarterly 48.4 (Oct. 1975): 236-44.

Publication type: Journal article

Lumbees have a higher homicide rate than Cherokees because they value courage and its expression, when necessary, through fighting.  Lumbees do not have “a culture of violence,” but the latter themes “predispose them to violence.”

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr.

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