Category: 3. Comprehensive overviews

         58. Dial, Adolph L. The Lumbee. Indians of North America. New York : Chelsea House, 1993. 112 p.   Key source

Publication type: Book

Library location: UNC-Pembroke. Search the WorldCat database for numerous additional library locations.

This lucidly written, copiously illustrated work, meant for ages 12-16, also serves well as an up-to-date introduction for college students and general readers. Topics covered include tribal name and origin (emphasizing the Lost Colony theory), efforts to gain true federal acknowledgment, history of their relations with Whites in Robeson County, Henry Berry Lowry, struggle for education (especially the history of UNC-Pembroke), religion, agriculture, art, politics, civil rights, and recent accomplishments.

Additional subjects discussed in this work: Brayboy, Nepsie | Carter, Aaron | Conjuring | Cup readers | Education and schools | Ku Klux Klan Routing (Maxton, 1958) | Lost Colony theory of tribal origin | Lowry, Henry Berry | Name, tribal | Oxendine, Lloyd | UNC-Pembroke | Pembroke (town) | Pierce, Julian T. | Recognition, Federal | Religion | School breaking | Tied mule incidents | Turpentine |

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

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