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Category: 30. Oral history
WOOD005. Woods, Ruth Dial. “Growing
up red: the Lumbee experience.” Dissertation. Chapel Hill: U of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001. 222 p.
Publication type: Dissertation (doctoral)
In this study, woods sought to “describe
and interpret the human and social realities of the Lumbee.”
She “examined the social, economic, cultural, and political phenomena
that create cultural stress and discontinuity in order to portray historical
and continuing struggles for recognition and affirmation of native culture
and identity” (p.5).
To accomplish these aims, Woods examined the video tapes
and transcripts of over sixty oral history interviews with Lumbee elders.
The elders were born in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The interviews
were conducted in 1981-1983 by Lumbee students from six Robeson County
high schools as part of the federally funded Title IV Robeson County Compensatory
Indian Education Project. Woods also conducted three additional in--depth
interviews herself. She added data from personal jounals, speeches
and papers--as well as from published research.
Woods looked for themes and patterns in the interviews
and used these-- along with her own reflections (given in italics in the
dissertation) and guided by the phenomenological method -- to organize
the results of her inquiry.
She begins with historical overview of the Lumbee people,
followed by sections on family life; herbs, medicine, and midwifery; superstitions
and the supernatural; religion and spirituality; Indian burial grounds;
traditional Indian worship; schooling; war; the Depression; the Ku Klux
Klan; the burning of Old Main; Lumbee social and political perspectives
(in historical order, ending with the LRDA-Lumbee Tribal Council lawsuit);
a chapter on Lumbee culture; and a chapter on theoretical perspectives,
outlining ways in which naterial gathered by this and other oral history
projects can be used. Appendix A reproduces the interview protocol used
as a guide in the student oral history interviews. The bibliography
of secondary sources is followed by a list of interviewees and the date
the interview was conducted.
Additional Subjects: [Page numbers may be slightly off]
| Family life, 21-38 |
Colleges-Lumbee admission to 80, 84-85 |
| Farm life, 21-38 passim. |
Military service during war 92-93 |
| Electricity 25 |
Great Depression 93-98 |
| Timber houses 26 |
Ku Klux Klan routing (1958) 98-101 |
| Fireplaces 27 |
Old Main (burning of) 101-104 |
| Children's games 27 |
Sampson, Oscar R. 101-102 |
| Children's clothing 28, 33-34 |
Race relations in Robeson County 108-116 |
| Food and cooking 28-29, 35 |
Indian identity 109-110 |
| Respect for elders 28-29, 35 |
Segregation 113-116 |
| Hog killing 29 |
Joseph J. Brooks 117-119 |
| Sugar cane 29-30 |
Siouan Lodge 117 |
| Fishing at Cherry Grove, SC 30 |
Lumbee Act (1956) 120 |
| Courting 31 |
Alcatraz Island occupation 121- |
| Roads 31 |
North Carolina Indian Cultural Center 130-131 |
| Hoover carts 31 |
Lumbee Regional Development Association 132-136 |
| Laundry 35 |
North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs 136-144 |
| Herbal medicines 38-41 |
Indian education programs 144-146 |
| Midwifery 41-42 |
Pembroke State University-name change 149-150, 153 |
| Superstitions and the supernatural 42-50 |
Lumbee students, Pembroke State University, and the UNC
system 146-149, 152, 175-177 |
| Conjurers 46-47 |
Sampson-Livermore Library (UNC Pembroke) 150-152 |
| Spirits 47-48 |
Pembroke State University-Chancellor selection 154-155 |
| Religion and Spirituality 50-55, 59-67, 173-174 |
Federal recognition (efforts to obtain) 155-158 |
| Cemeteries 56-58 |
Tribal government 158-168 |
| Schools and education 67-92, 174-175 |
Culture (Lumbee) 169-178 |
| School breaking 72-73 |
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This annotation was written on July 1, 2001; last edited
on June 21, 2002.
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