Category: 3. Comprehensive studies and overviews

    59. Sider, Gerald M. Lumbee Indian histories: Race, ethnicity and Indian identity in the Southern United States. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993. Key source Key source

Publication type: Book

Sider calls this work “both an anthropology and a history of histories,” exploring “how people have lived and still live within and against the histories they have chosen and the histories that have been imposed upon them.” He brings considerable knowledge and feeling to this work, based on scholarly research, work with the Lumbee as an activist and a Petition researcher, and numerous friendships among the tribe. He treats topics such as the various tribal names and claims of historical origin; agriculture, land ownership, and the politics of work; education; voter registration drives, and attempts to get Indian candidates elected; the Tuscarora movement; Pembroke Farms; the Henry Berry Lowry period; and Lumbee and Tuscarora attempts at federal recognition. He emphasizes events and conditions in Robeson County between 1968 and 1973 but also deals with the Colonial period and discusses developments as recent as 1991. One of many strengths of this work is that, while providing detailed descriptions of key events and periods in Lumbee history (including information not given elsewhere), Sider also places Lumbee history into a broader anthropological context (see the Preface).

Additional subjects discussed in this work: Brooks, Howard | Brooks, Martin L | Bureau of Indian Affairs Building-Documents stolen from--Legal action (1973) | Cherokee (tribal name)/Cherokee theory of tribal origin | Coalitions (Indian-Black) | Croatan (tribal name) | Desegregation (of schools) | Double-voting | Economics, employment and occupations | Education and schools | Identity/Indianness/culture (Lumbee) | Independent Americans for Progress | Ku Klux Klan routing (Maxton, 1958) | Land ownership | Leitch, Giles | Locklear, Janie Maynor | Lowry, D. F. (Doctor Fuller) | Lowry, Henry Berry | Lumbee Bank | Lumbee Homecoming | Lumbee Petition (1987) | Lumbee Regional Development Association | Maynor v. Morton | Movement, The | Name, tribal | National Congress of American Indians | Norment, Mary W. | Old Main (Pembroke State University) | Original Twenty-two | Oxendine, Henry Ward | Politics | Prospect School | Recognition, federal | Red Banks Mutual Association | Seltzer, Carl C.| Siouan Movement/Siouan theory of tribal origin | Sit-ins (at Indian Schools) | Smilings | Swamps—Drainage | Tobacco farming | Tribal roll | Tuscarora Indians of Robeson County | Tuscarora Petition | United South and Eastern Tribes | Voter registration | Wheeler-Howard Indian Reorganization Act

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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