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Category: 17. Tribal name and identity
MONT001. Montgomerie, Deborah.
“Coming to terms: Ngai Tahu, Robeson County Indians and the Garden
Band of Ojibwa, 1840-1940. Three studies of colonialism in action.”
Dissertation. Duke U, 1993.
Publication type: Dissertation (doctoral)
See especially Chapter 6, “The politics of
Freedom: Indians in Robeson County 1830-75,” pp. 284-334; and Chapter
7, “The Politics of Recognition: Robeson County 1875-1935,”
pp. 335-371. The three groups Montgomerie has chosen “have in common
as sense of historical grievance that bound then together over time”
(p. 388). For each group, colonialism altered some systems, such as education,
production, land ownership, and political participation. Their sense of
group distinctiveness and right to ethnic self definition were not affected.
Montgomerie, using a wide range of documentation (including
some archival sources not mentioned by other writers) provides clear, detailed
discussions of the Lumbee from colonial times through the 1940s. Her discussions
are particularly strong on 19th century state and local laws, which stripped
rights from the Lumbee; their struggles to resist classification as black;
the Henry Berry Lowery period; efforts for external recognition as Indian;
alliances with the Democratic Party; changes in outsiders' views of the
tribe after the Lowry period; and social stratification in Robeson County
and among the Lumbees in the first half of the 20th century.
Appendix Two, “Identification of Indian Families
in Robeson County,” pp. 399-402, explains that due to the nature
of census and school records, the most accurate way to identify Lumbee
people in historical records is by surname. Montgomerie has substantiated
her argument by looking at unique names in a 1900 Robeson County directory
which identifies taxpayers by race. She lists names used by Indians
only and their frequency of recurrence in the directory, as well as
names used by both Indians and whites and names used by all three races.
Additional subjects: Tribal origins | Locklear (surname)
| Lowry Road | Lumbee River (name) | Drowning Creek | Scuffletown (name)
| The Settlement | Transportation - Robeson Co. - 19th Century | Naval
stores | Deeds (Lumbee) - 18th century | Free people of color | Language
| Religion | Lumbee and interracial marriages | Hiring out (labor in exchange
for payment of court fines) | Slavery (Indians sold into) | Slaves (Indians'
trade with) | Henry Berry Lowry | Schools - American Mission Society proposed
school for freedom (1866) | Hamilton McMillan | Farmers' Alliance - Lumbee
participation in (1889) | Logging - Robeson County - 1890's | Land ownership
- Lumbees - 19th and early 20th century | Education | Committees | Federal
recognition | Pembroke, Town of--Town Officials--Election vs. appointment.
This annotation was edited on: June 14, 2002
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