Category: 3. Comprehensive overviews

        50.  Oxendine, Clifton. A Social and Economic History of the Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina. Thesis. George Peabody College for Teachers, 1934.

Publication type: Thesis

Library locations: California State University, Northridge; Vanderbilt University

This frequently cited work covers much ground in Lumbee history.  Chapter 1 reviews the Cherokee and Lost Colony origin theories.  Chapter 2 is on Henry Berry Lowry.  Chapter 3 discusses problems faced after suffrage was restored in 1868.  Chapter 4, “Present-Day Progress,” discusses land ownership, education, and religion.

Additional subjects discussed in this work: Cherokee theory of tribal origin | Education and schools | Land ownership | Lost Colony theory of tribal origin | Lowry, Henry Berry | Religion

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr. Edited on March 21, 2007.

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