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Category: 7. Literature; creative writing by and/or about Lumbee people

MORR001. Morris, Charles. “The swamp outlaws: a secret of twenty years.” Saturday Evening Post 1872. In nine installments: January 6, January 13, January 20, January 27, February 3, February 10, February 17, February 24, and March 2.

CHES001. Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. Mandy Oxendine: a novel. [1897?] Ed. Charles Hackenberry. Urbana: Illinois UP, 1997. 112 pages.

285. Baily, Waldron. The Homeward Trail. New York: W. J. Watt, 1916. 313 p.

290. Buffalo Child Long Lance [Sylvester Clark Long]. Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Chief. New York: Cosmopolitan, 1928.

352. Reising, Robert W. “The literature of the Lumbee Indians: An introduction.” Pembroke Magazine 13 (1981): 48-54.

VIZE001. Vizenor, Gerald. “Blue moon ceremonial.” In: Earthdivers: tribal narratives on mixed descent. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1981. Pp. 67-76.

MCCR001. McCrumb, Sharyn. Lovely in her bones. 1985. New York: Ballantine Books, 1990.

TOBI001. Tobin, Juanita. “The woman from the Lumbee tribe.” Journal of Counseling and Development 64 (September 1985): 51. Reprinted in: Ransom Street Quartet: Poems & Stories. By Juanita Tobin. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 1995.

MCLA001. McLaurin, Tim. Keeper of the moon: a Southern boyhood. New York: Anchor Books (Doubleday), 1991.

RUSS003. Russell, Julia Lowry. “Faces.” In: Earth song, sky spirit: short stories of the contemporary Native American experience. Ed. Clifford E. Trafzer. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Pages 125-132.

LOCK006. Locklear, Amy. “The women.” Red Ink: a Native American student publication 3.1 (Spring 1994): 12-13.

WOOD002. Woods, J. Cedric. “Tears of our mother.” Red Ink; a Native American student publication 3.1 (Spring 1994): 10-11.

ORTI001. Ortiz, Simon J. “A gift to give and receive: a tribute for Indian children.” Pembroke Magazine no. 27 (1995): 43-44.

SCHM001. Schmitz, Neil. “The other man. Buffalo Child Long Lance became famous as Blackfoot chief, even though he wasn’t one.” Buffalo News (New York) 8 October 1995: M12 (Sunday).

WFYL001. [Selected poems and essays from the Write for your life project.] Pembroke Magazine 27 (1995): 7-32.

PHIL001. Phillips, Dale Ray. “At the edge of the New World.” Ploughshares 22.2-3 (Fall 1996): 46- .  (approx. 12 pages)

BLUE001. Blue, Denise. “The Lumbee: legends, lies, and lives.” Thesis. Western Carolina University, 1998. 68 pages.

CUMM002. Cummings, Wendy Moore. “Lumbee writers and artists’ works solicited for upcoming anthology.” Carolina Indian Voice 24 December 1998:1.

MOOR001. Moore, MariJo. “American Indians begin focusing on local cultural initiatives.” Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC) 10 May 1998 (Sunday): A9.

BALL002. Ball, David. The swamp outlaws: the Civil War story of Henry Berry Lowery and his North Carolina Indian raiders. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library, 1999. 345 pages. Available from 1st Books Library at <http://www.1stbooks.com>Key source Key source

BRAV003. Braveboy-Locklear, Barbara. “Keeping the circle is . . .” In: Homecoming: an anthology by Writers Ink Guild. Ed. Marie Davis Winfree. Fayetteville, NC: Old Mountain Press, 1999. Page 68. Reprinted in Pembroke Magazine 32 (2000), page 141.    

MOOR004. Moore, MariJo, ed. Feeding the ancient fires: a collection of writings by North Carolina American Indians. [Greensboro, NC]: The Crossroads Press (a project of the North Carolina Humanities Council), 1999. 78 pages

BART004.  Barton, Garry Lewis. “Ranting and raving (column): Every rose has a thorn...” Carolina Indian Voice 28 January 1999:2.

RUSS002. Russell, Julia Lowry. “To learn your language.” In: Homecoming: an anthology by Writers Ink Guild. Ed. Marie Davis Winfree. Fayetteville, NC: Old Mountain Press, 1999. Page 41. Reprinted in Pembroke Magazine 32 (2000), page 139.

CUMM003. Cummings, Wendy Moore. “Mirrors.” Pembroke Magazine 32 (2000): 140.

HUMP001. Humphreys, Josephine. Nowhere else on earth: a novel. New York: Viking, 2000. 341 pages. Paperback edition: Penguin USA, October 2001. Key source Key source

RUSS001. Russell, Julia Lowry. “Counting coup.” Pembroke Magazine 32 (2000): 134-138.  

BARTL01. Barton, Lew [Lewis Randolph]. Beside the trickling brook: a collection of poems by Lew Barton. Pembroke, NC: Barton House Publishing, 2001.

CUMM005. Cummings, Delano. River dreams: tales of a Lumbee warrior. Illus. by Eileen Harrison and Van Wilkins. Ed. by Marian Novak. Livermore, Maine: Signal Tree Publications, 2001. 146 pages. 17 illustrations.

GARD002. Gardner, Susan. “A Native American Ogun: transforming West African belief in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the dead.” In: Andrade, Susan Z., et al., eds. Atlantic Cross-Currents/Transatlantiques. Lawrenceville, NJ: Africa World Press, 2001. Pages 147-154. 

KNIC028. Knick, Stanley. “Along the Robeson Trail.” Carolina Indian Voice 21 March 2002: 3.

KNIC030. Knick, Stanley, ed. River spirits: a collection of Lumbee writings. Pembroke, NC: Native American Resource Center Publications, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, 2003. 174 pages. Key source Key source

WAAG001. Waage, Fred. “Lost Colony.” Pembroke Magazine 35 (2003): 54.

ANDE002. Anderson, Forrest. “The Night Power Came to the Reservation.” The Louisville Review: A literary magazine [Lexington, KY: Spaulding University] 59 (Spring 2006): 154-64.

LOCK039. Locklear, Chad. "Swamp Posse." Pembroke Magazine 38 (2006): 172-81.

LOCK052. Locklear, Erica Abrams. "'What are you?' Exploring racial categorization in Nowhere else on earth." Southern literary journal 39.1 (Fall 2006): 33-53.


For thorough research, please consult The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1994) which lists 22 annotated items dealing with this topic.


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