Category: 3. Comprehensive overviews

         54.  Dial, Adolph L., and David K. Eliades. The only land I know: A history of the Lumbee Indians. San Francisco: Indian Historian P, 1975.  Rpt. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1996.   Key source

Publication type: Book

Library locations: Robeson County Public Library; UNC-Pembroke. Search the WorldCat database for numerous additional library locations.

This readable work has become the standard overview and the first source consulted for most topics. It discusses origin theories, the Siouan movement, Henry Berry Lowry, public schools, UNC-Pembroke, Old Main, Red Banks, migration to Baltimore and Georgia, the Tuscarora movement, religion, folklore, economics, politics, military service, the Ku Klux Klan routing, and the Carolina Indian Voice. Many illustrations. Appendices list the Lost Colonists and reprint major Lumbee legislation. Bibliography.

[I am sad to announce the death of David K. Eliades on Sunday, April 22, 2007. See also this tribute by Dr. Raymond J. Rundus. —GESS]

Additional subjects discussed in this work: Carolina Indian Voice (Newspaper) | Economics, employment and occupations | Folklore | Ku Klux Klan routing (Maxton, 1958) | Lowry, Henry Berry | Military service | Old Main (UNC-Pembroke) | Origin, tribal | Politics | Red Banks Mutual Association | Religion | Siouan Movement/Siouan theory of tribal origin | Tied mule incidents | Tuscarora Indians of Robeson County | UNC-Pembroke

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr.  Annotation edited on April 24, 2007.

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