Artwork by Hatty Ruth Miller, Lumbee artist  
 

Key sources for research on the Lumbee Indians

I have selected the best sources, from The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994) and from this Web-based Annotated Bibliography, for each category.  The “key sources” listed here are the first ones that should be consulted for research on that particular topic regarding the Lumbee Indians.  The “key sources” listed under Comprehensive Overviews will also provide information on a number of the more specific topics. 
My criteria for “key sources” include comprehensiveness; quality of research and scholarship; contribution of new ideas, insights, and information; quality and/or accessibility of writing; and efficient organization of information.  Each “key source” meets one or more of the criteria. 

For key sources that appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography, I have provided the citation and item number only if the item has not yet been added to this site. Please consult the book to read my annotation.  For key sources that appear in this Annotated Bibliography Supplement, click on the item number to link to the annotation.  If you have suggestions for works that should be included as key sources, please e-mail me the work's citation at glennellen@bellsouth.net and let me know why you feel it is a key source. 


 
2. Brief overviews
3. Comprehensive overviews
4. Overviews of education; public schools
5. Higher education; UNC-Pembroke
6. Language
7. Literature; creative writing by Lumbee people
8. Drama and pageants
9. Art
10. Music and dance; pow-wows; scholarship pageants
11. Folklore
12. Other cultural expressions and institutions
13. Religion
14. Physical health, conventional medicine, folk medicine
15. Social science studies
16. Origins of the tribe
17. Tribal name and identity
17.5. Efforts to obtain federal recognition
17.8. Tribal government
19. Tuscarora Indians of Robeson County
20. Crime, criminal justice, and law
21. Business, economics, and employment
22. Politics and government
25. Sports and athletics; community service
26. MIlitary service
27. Settlements outside Robeson County
28. Biographical sources
29. Genealogical materials
30. Oral history
31. TheLumbee River; environment and environmentalism
32. Archaeological studies of Robeson County
33. The Henry Berry Lowry period
34. Red Banks Mutual Association
35. The Ku Klux Klan Routing of 1958
36. Lumbee and Tuscarora activism since the late 1980s
37. Bills; laws; hearings and reports court cases
38. Curriculum materials
39. The Robeson County context
40. Lumbee communities in Robeson County

 

2.  Brief overviews
[Johnson, Guy Benton]. “An institutional sketch of the Robeson County Indian community.” 1951? 22 p. [Included in entry 468.]  [Bibliography, item 15] 
Dial, Adolph L. “From adversity to progress.” Southern Exposure 13.6 (Nov.-Dec. 1985): 85-89. [Bibliography, item 40]

Zak, Susannah K. “A story of survival: the Lumbee Indians.” Thesis. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992. 53 p. [Bibliography, item 47]

Blu, Karen I. “Lumbee.” Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 13, The Southeast. Ed. William G. Sturtevant. Washington: Smithsonian P. Forthcoming. 25 p. [Draft at IERC]  [Noted in S.Hrg. 100-881 (entry 1380), pp. 22-24.]  [Bibliography, item 48]

Gaillard, Frye. Chapter 9, “The pride of the Lumbees.” As long as the waters flow: Native American in the South and the East. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1998.  Pp. 149-166.  [Bibliography Supplement, item GAIL001]

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3.  Comprehensive overviews

49. McPherson, O. M. Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in response to a Senate resolution of June 30, 1914. Caption Title: Report on Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina. US. 63rd Congress, 3rd Session. S. Doc. 677. Dated 5 Jan. 1915. Serial Set 6772. 252 p. Key source Key source

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. 1996.

55. Blu, Karen I. The Lumbee problem: the making of an American Indian people. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1980. Rpt. 2001.

57. Lumbee River Legal Services. The Lumbee petition. Prepared in cooperation with the Lumbee Tribal Enrollment Office. Julian T. Pierce and Cynthia Hunt-Locklear, authors. Jack Campisi and Wesley White, consultants. Pembroke: Lumbee River Legal Services, 1987. 3 vols.

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

59. Sider, Gerald M. Lumbee Indian histories: race, ethnicity and Indian identity in the Southern United States. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993. Revised, with a new introduction, as Living Indian Histories, 2003.

KNIC027. Knick, Stanley. The Lumbee in context: toward an understanding. Pembroke, NC: Native American Resource Center, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, 2000.

MAYN019. Maynor, Malinda, and Judy Kertesz. Sounds of Faith [Web site]. 1999-2002. Available: http://www.unc.edu/~mmaynor/. Accessed February 22, 2007. Key source

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4.  Overviews of education; public schools

Barnes, Bahnson N. “A history of the Robeson County school system.” Thesis. U of North Carolina, 1931. [Bibliography, item 75]

Thompson, Vernon Ray. “A study of the Indian schools of Robeson County, North Carolina.” Thesis. Ohio State U, 1951. [Bibliography, item 88]

Egerton, John. “Six districts, three races and more things.” Southern Education Report 4 (Dec. 1968): 4-10. [Bibliography, item 102]

Thompson, Vernon Ray. “A history of the education of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, 1885-1970.” Dissertation. U of Miami, 1973. [Bibliography, item 126]

Scheirbeck, Helen Maynor. “Education: public policy and the American Indian.” Dissertation. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1980. [Bibliography, item 140]

DIAL002. Dial, Heather. "Chapter 10. Struggling for voice in a Black and White world: The Lumbee Indians' segregated educational experience in North Carolina." Transformations in schooling: Historical and comparative perspectives. Ed. Kim Tolley. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pages 225-250.Key source Key source

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5.  Higher education; UNC-Pembroke

Dial, Adolph, and David K. Eliades. “Lumbee Indians of North Carolina and Pembroke State University.” Indian Historian 4.4 (Winter 1971): 20-24. [Bibliography, item 211] 

Eliades, David K., and Linda Ellen Oxendine. Pembroke State University: a centennial history. Columbus, GA: Brentwood UP, 1986. 110 p. [Bibliography, item 264]

Knick, Stanley, and Linda E. Oxendine. “Standing in the gap: American Indian Studies at the University of North Carolina—Pembroke.” In: Native American Studies in higher education: models for collaboration between universities and indigenous nations. Ed. Duane Champagne and Jay Stauss. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira P, 2002. Chapter 11, pages 191-202. [Bibliography Supplement, item KNIC029]

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6.  Language

Brewer, Jeutonne, and Robert W. Reising. “Tokens in the Pocosin: Lumbee English in North Carolina.” Essays in Native American Speech. San Antonio: Trinity U, 1982. Also in American Speech 57.2 (1982): 108-20. [Biblography, item 355] 
Dannenberg, Clare Jacobs. “Moving toward a diachronic and synchronic definition of Lumbee English.”   Thesis. North Carolina State University, 1996. 105p.  [Bibliography Supplement, item DANN003]

Indian by birth: The Lumbee dialect. Produced by Walt Wolfram. Narrated by Linda Oxendine. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Language and Life Project, North Carolina State University; Pembroke, NC: Museum of the Native American Resource Center, and Department of American Indian Studies, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, 2000. [Bibliography Supplement, item INDI002.]

Schilling-Estes, Natalie. “Investigating intra-ethnic differentiation: /ay/ in Lumbee Native American English.” Language Variation and Change 12 (2000): 141-174. [Bibliography Supplement, item SCHI003.]

Wolfram, Walt. “From the brickhouse to the swamp.” American Language Review July/August 2001: 34-38. [Bibliography Supplement, item WOLF008]

Wolfram, Walt, Clare Dannenberg, Stanley Knick, and Linda Oxendine. Fine in the world: Lumbee language in time and place. Pembroke, NC: Museum of the Native American Resource Center, UNC-Pembroke, 2002. [Bibliography Supplement, item WOLF010.]

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7.  Literature; creative writing by Lumbee people

Owen, Guy. Journey for Joedel. New York: Crown, 1970. [Bibliography, item 323]
Fields, Jeff. A Cry of Angels. New York: Atheneum, 1974. [Bibliography, item 334]

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

Vizenor, Gerald. “Blue Moon Ceremonial.” In: Earthdivers: tribal narratives on mixed descent. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1981. Pp. 67-76.  [Bibliography Supplement, item VIZE001]

Williams, Bronwyn [pseud. for Dixie Browning and Mary Williams]. Stormwalker. Harlequin Historical, vol. 47. Toronto: Harlequin Books, 1990. [Bibliography, item 370]

Reising, R. W. “Literary depictions of Henry Berry Lowry: mythic, romantic, and tragic.” MELUS 17.1 (Spring 1991-1992): 87-103. [Bibliography, item 384]

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. [Bibliography Supplement, item RUSS003.]

Humphreys, Josephine. Nowhere else on earth: a novel. New York: Viking, 2000. [Bibliography Supplement, item HUMP001.]

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. [Bibliography Supplement, item KNIC030]

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8.  Drama and pageants

Green, Paul. The last of the Lowries: a play of the Croatan outlaws of Robeson County, North Carolina.  New York: Samuel French, 1922. [Bibliography, item 287]
Deloria, Ella. Life story of a people. [Pageant.] Pembroke: Pembroke State College for Indians, 1940. [Not seen.]  [Bibliography, item 301]

Deloria, Ella Cara. “Rough draft of pageant--Robeson County Indians, Pembroke, North Carolina. 'The life-story of a people.' Written and directed by Ella Cara Deloria, 1940-1941.” “The Modern Questor.” [approximately 31 pages] [Bibliography Supplement, item DELO001.]

Umberger, Randolph. [“Strike at the Wind!”  Script.] Pembroke: N.p., 197?. [The Henry Berry Lowry story.]  [Bibliography, item 340]

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9.  Art

Warren, Gene. “Gene Locklear: Lumbee Indian artist who made it to big leagues.” Robesonian 29 April 1972. [Bibliography, item 329] 
Hamilton, Lee. “Pembroke artist's work to be sold at SATW auction.” Robesonian 25 June 1990: 5A. [Delora Cummings; see also 27 June 1990: 1A.]  [Bibliography, item 372]

Warren, Gene. “[Mike] Wilkins to exhibit carving skills during heritage celebration.” Robesonian 14 Sept. 1990: 1A. [Bibliography, item 373]

Guyton, Nanette. “Successful Pembroke native encourages students.” Robesonian 16 Dec. 1990: 1A. [Bibliography, item 376]

Chamberlain, Knight. “Lela Brooks: an example of the power of folk art.” Robesonian 3 May 1991: 6A. [Bibliography, item 379]

Braveboy-Locklear, Barbara. “Real Indian art.” N.C. Arts 8.3 (Fall 1992). Reprinted in Shared heritage (Heritage Arts, 1993) and in Pembroke Magazine 27 (1995): 10-11. [Bibliography Supplement, item LOCK007. ]

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10.  Music and dance; pow-wows; scholarship pageants

Lowry, Ira Pate. “The instrumental music of the Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina.” Thesis. Ohio State U, 1942. [Bibliography, item 311]
Lowery, Willie French. “Proud to Be a Lumbee.” With Miriam Oxendine and Lumbee Children. 33 1/2 rpm sound disc. Lowery Pub. Co., 812011B-2077, [197?]  [Bibliography, item 338]

Munger, Guy. “An Indian whose heart is filled with music.” News and Observer 11 Nov. 1979: Sec. 4 p 3. [Bibliography, item 349]

The Pierces. Thinkin' bout home. Produced by Milton Smith. Living Waters Records [Hope Mills, NC], 8823, [1989?]  [Bibliography, item 360]

Guyton, Nanette. “The Pierce Family...gospel music is their ministry.” Robesonian 10 Sept. 1989: C1. [Bibliography, item 368]

Scipio, Sylvester. “D & L Gospel Singers mark 25th year Saturday.” Robesonian 23 Nov. 1990: 6A. [Bibliography, item 375]

Sounds of faith. Dir. and prod. by Malinda M. Maynor. Videocassette. Dept. of Communication, Stanford U, 1997. 14 min.  [Bibliography Supplement, item MAYN009]

Maynor, Malinda. “Indians got rhythm: Lumbee and African American church song.” North Dakota Quarterly 67.3-4 (2000): 72-91. [Bibliography Supplement, item MAYN010]

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11.  Folklore

Parsons, Elsie Clews. “Folk-lore of the Cherokee of Robeson County, North Carolina.” Journal of American Folklore 32.125 (July-Sept. 1919): 384-93.  [Bibliography, item 286] 
Barton, Lew. “Me-told tales along the Lumbee.” North Carolina Folklore 19.4 (Nov. 1971): 173-76. Rpt. in CIV 21 April 1977:3.  [Bibliography, item 328]
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12. Other cultural expressions and institutions

No key sources.
13.  Religion
[Johnson, Guy B.?] “A survey of the churches of Robeson County, North Carolina, 1948-1949.” Tentative compilation: 3 Oct. 1948. Revised introductory remarks: 20 Jan. 1950. 12 p. [Included in entry 468].  [Bibliography, item 398]
Barton, Bruce. Religious experience an important part of Lumbee heritage. Pembroke: Lumbee Regional Development Association, June 1984. 197 p.  [Bibliography, item 415]

Smith, Joseph Michael, and Lula Jane Smith. The Lumbee Methodists: getting to know them. A folk history. Raleigh: Commission of Archives and History, North Carolina Methodist Conference, 1990.  [Bibliography, item 422]

Gustafson, Robert K. “The religion of the Lumbee Indians.” Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion conference, New Orleans, 14 Nov. 1990.  [Bibliography, item 424]

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14.  Physical health, conventional medicine, and folk medicine

Steedly, Mary Margaret. “'The evidence of things not seen': faith and tradition in a Lumbee healing practice.” Thesis. U of North Carolina, 1979.  [Bibliography, item 441] 
Croom, Edward Mortimer, Jr. “Medicinal plants of the Lumbee Indians.” Dissertation. North Carolina State U, 1982.  [Bibliography, item 446]

Knick, Stanley G. “Growing up down home: health and growth in the Lumbee Nation.” Dissertation. Indiana U, 1986.  [Bibliography, item 449]

Croom, Edward M., Jr. “Herbal medicine among the Lumbee Indians.” Herbal and magical medicine: traditional healing today. Ed. James Kirkland. Durham: Duke UP, 1992.  [Bibliography, item 452]

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15.  Social science studies

Johnson, Guy B. “Personality in a White-Indian-Negro community.” American Sociological Review 4.4 (Aug. 1939): 516-23. Excerpted in: When peopes meet. New York: Hinds, Hayden, and Eldredge, 1946. Pp. 576-82. [Bibliography, item 460] 
Kupferer, Harriet J., and John A. Humphrey. “Fatal Indian violence in North Carolina.” Anthropological Quarterly 48.4 (Oct. 1975): 236-44. [Bibliography, item 476]

Sider, Gerald. “Against experience: the struggles for history, tradition, and hope among Native American people.” Between history and histories: the making of silences and commemorations. Ed. Gerald Sider and Gavin Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 62-77. [Bibliography Supplement, item SIDE001]

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16.  Origins of the tribe

McMillan, Hamilton. Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony: an historical sketch of the attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to establish a colony in Virginia,  with the traditions of an Indian tribe in North Carolina. Indicating the fate of the colony of Englishmen left on Roanoke Island in 1587. Wilson, NC: Advance Presses, 1888. 29 p. Rev. ed. Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1907. 46 p. Rpt. in McPherson (entry 49), Exhibit C. Microfilmed by the Library of Congress. [Bibliography, item 506] 
Weeks, Stephen B. “The Lost Colony of Roanoke: its fate and survival.” Papers of the American Historical Association 5.4 (1891): 107-46. Summarized in Annual Report of the American Historical Association 1890: 97-98. Published as a separate; New York: Knickerbocker, 1891. Rpt. in McPherson (entry 49), Exhibit CC. [Bibliography, item 508]

Swanton, John R. “Probable identity of the Croatan Indians.” U. S. Dept. of Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Washington, DC, 1933. 5p. Rpt. in Senate Report 73-204 (entry 1347) and House Report 73-1752 (entry 1348). Excerpted in The Lumbee Petition (entry 57), 83.7 HN pp. 68-70. [Bibliography, item 535]

Lowry, D. F. “No mystery.” The State 20.29 (20 Dec. 1952): 24. [Bibliography, item 549]

White, Wes. “A report on the origins of the Lumbee Indians: a somewhat revised and proofread version.” Unpub. typescript. 1 April 1978. [Bibliography, item 564]

Knick, Stan. “How long have the Lumbees been here?” Robesonian 16 Jan. 1992: 4A. [Bibliography, item 579]

Thomas, Robert K. A report on Lumbee origins. Unpublished manuscript, 1976?  71 pages. [Bibliography Supplement, item THOM001]

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17.  Tribal name and identity

Johnson, Guy B. “What's in a name: the case of the Lumbee Indians.” Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Athens, GA. 9 April 1970. 8 p. [Bibliography, item 630]

Blu, Karen I. “'We people': understanding Lumbee Indian identity in a tri-racial situation.” Dissertation. U of Chicago, 1972. [Bibliography, item 634]

Blu, Karen I. “The uses of history for ethnic identity: the Lumbee case.” Currents in anthropology: essays in honor of Sol tax. Ed. Robert Hinshaw. The Hague: Mouton, 1979. Pp. [271]-85. [Bibliography, item 655]

Chavis, Ben. “What is Lumbee Indian culture? Does it exist?” A good Cherokee, a good anthropologist: papers in honor of Robert K. Thomas.  Ed. Steve Pavlik. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998.  Pp. 177-188. [Bibliography Supplement, item CHAV002]

Knick, Stanley. “Because it is right: an essay about Lumbees and federal recognition.” Updated 16 Jan. 1998. [Bibliography Supplement, item KNIC001]

Maynor, Malinda. Real Indian. Videocassette (1/2 in, sound, color). 7 min. New York: Women Make Movies, 1996. [Bibliography Supplement, item MAYN005]

Paredes, J. Anthony. “Paradoxes of modernism and Indianness in the Southeast.” American Indian Quarterly 19.3 (Summer 1995): 341-60. [Bibliography Supplement, item PARE001]

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17.5 Efforts to obtain true federal acknowledgment

101st Cong. 1st Session. To provide federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Hearing, House Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs [on H. R. 2335]. Serial no. 101-57. 235 p. Dated 26 Sept. 1989. Y4.In8/14: 101-57. Washington: GPO, 1992. [Bibliography, item 1383]

102nd Cong. 1st Session. Provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of Cheraw Indians of North Carolina. Joint Hearing, House Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs and Senate Select Comm. on Indian Affairs, on H.R. 1426 and S. 1036. Dated 1 Aug. 1991. Serial no. 102-JH 1. 274 p. Y4.In8/14:102-JH 1. Washingtion: GPO, 1993. [Bibliography, item 1386]

Bordewich, Fergus M. Killing the white man's Indian: reinventing Native Americnas at the end of the twentieth century  New York: Doubleday, 1996. [See Chapter 2, “We ain't got feathers and beads,” pp.60-92.]  [Bibliography Supplement, item BORD001]

Knick, Stanley. “Because it is right: an essay about Lumbees and federal recognition.” Updated 16 Jan. 1998. [Bibliography Supplement, item KNIC001]

103rd Cong. Lumbee Recognition Act. Report together with dissenting views to accompany H.R. 334. House Report no. 130-290. House Committee on Natural Resources. Dated 14 Oct. 1993. [Bibliography Supplement, item LUMB002]

McCulloch, Anne Merline, and David E Wilkins. “'Constructing' nations within states: the quest for federal recognition by the Catawba and Lumbee Tribes.” American Indian Quarterly 19.3 (Summer 1995): 361-88. [Bibliography Supplement, item MCCU001]

Paredes, J. Anthony. “Paradoxes of modernism and Indianness in the Southeast.” American Indian Quarterly 19.3 (Summer 1995): 341-60. [Bibliography Supplement, item PARE001]

Quinn, William W., Jr. “Southeastern Indians: the quest for federal acknowledgment and a new legal status.” From big game to bingo: native peoples of the Southeastern United States: a retrospective occasioned by the Sesquicentennial of the Great Removal. Proceedings of a Conference Conducted at the Florida State University during March 5-7, 1987. Ed. J. Anthony Paredes and J. Leitch Wright, Jr. Pp. 255-274. [Bibliography Supplement, item QUIN001]

WILK007. Wilkins, David E. "Breaking into the intergovernmental matrix: the Lumbee Tribe's efforts to secure federal acknowledgment." Publius: The journal of federalism 23. 4 (Fall 1993): 123-142.  

Wilkins, David E. “The Lumbee Tribe and its quest for federal recognition: Lumbee centurions on the trail of many years.” In: A good Cherokee, a good anthropologist. Ed. Steve Pavlik. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998. Pp. 149-75. [Bibliography Supplement, item WILK002]

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17.8. Tribal government

No key sources.
19.  Tuscarora Indians of Robeson County
“Lumbee unit forms plan for state organization.” News and Observer 31 Dec. 1971:5. [Bibliography, item 724]

Poole, Bob. “Papers reveal cause of Indian ire: Tuscaroras didn't get federal  funds.” Winston-Salem Twin City Sentinel 17 March 1973: 1. [Bibliography, item 730]

The Tuscarora Tribe of North Carolina. Petition for federal recognition. Unpublished typescript. Approx. 180 p. Dec. 1989. [Bibliography, item 755]

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20.  Crime, criminal justice, and law

“Official to eye charges of brutality to Indians.” News and Observer 29 June 1978: 18. [Bibliography, item 826]

Bigelow, Scott. “Violence seldom crosses racial lines.” Robesonian 16 April 1979: 1. [Bibliography, item 830]

N.C. Dept. of Admin. A preliminary review of arrest and incarceration rates of Indians vs. Whites in the N.C. judicial system. By Darlene Jacobs. Raleigh: The Department, 1982. Rpt. in Anti-Indian Violence (entry 859), pp. 92-106. [Bibliography, item 834]

Patterson, Dennis. “Pembroke editor fights odds to fulfill dream.” Robesonian 8 March 1984: 2A. [Bibliography, item 838]

N.C. Dept. of Admin. N.C. Comm. of Indian Affairs. Ad Hoc Comm. on Indians and the criminal justice system. A Report on the treatment of Indians by the criminal justice system. Oct. 1987. Rpt. in entry 859, pp. 31-91. [Bibliography, item 845]

U.S. Cong. House. Comm. on the Judiciary. Subcomm. on Civil and Constitutional Rights. Anti-Indian Violence. Hearings ... May 4 and 18, 1988. 100th Cong., 2nd Sess. Washington: GOP, 1989. Y4.J89/1: 100/119. Serial Set, Serial no. 119. Pp. 20-44, 432-40. [Bibliography, item 859]

“Murder rate may be tied to culture.” News and Observer 3 Feb. 1992: 3B. [Bibliography, item 879]

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21.  Business, economics, and employment

Davis, Owen. “Robeson Indian takes Helm at Lumbee Bank.” Raleigh News and Observer 18 Sept. 1977: Sec. 4 p. 3. [Bibliography, item 821]
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22.  Politics and government

Sider, Gerald Marc. “Political history of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina: a case study of ethnic political affiliations.” Dissertation. New School for Social Research, 1971. [Bibliography, item 801] 
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. North Carolina Advisory Committee. Economic and political problems of Indians in Robeson County: a report. Washington: The Commission, July 1974. [Bibliography, item 813]

Evans, W. McKee. “The North Carolina Lumbees: from assimilation to revitalization.” Southeastern Indians since the removal era. Ed. Walter L. Williams. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1979. Pp. 49-71. [Bibliography, item 828]

Wurth-Hough, Sandra J. “The dialectic of the Lumbee People and their polity.” Paper presented at the Western Social Science Annual Convention, 1990? 17 p. [Bibliography, item 868]

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25.  Sports and athletics; community service

“Slow, fascinating growth of Odum home.” Charity and Children 72.33 (3 Mar. 1960): 1, 4. Rpt. in CIV 27 Oct. 1977: 11. [Bibliography, item 896] 

Oxendine, Joseph B. American Indian sports heritage. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Books, 1987. Pp. 275, 299-303. [Bibliography, item 905]

Brayboy, Tim, and Bruce Barton. Playing before an overflow crowd: the story of Indian basketball in Robeson, North Carolina, and adjoining counties. Chapel Hill, NC: Chapel Hill P, 2003. 201 pages. [Bibliography Supplement, item BRAY009.]

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26.  Military service

Cummings, Delano. Moon Dash Warrior: the story of an American Indian in Vietnam, a Marine from the land of the Lumbee. Livermore, ME: Signal Tree Publications, 1998. 266p. [Bibiography Supplement, item CUMM001.]
27.  Settlements outside Robeson County
Peck, John Gregory. Education of urban Indians: Lumbee Indians in Baltimore. (National Study of American Indian Education, Series II, no 3.) Washington: Office of Educaton, Bureau of Research, Aug. 1969. ERIC ED 039 977  [Bibliography, item 933] 
Makofsky, Abraham. “Tradition and change in the Lumbee Indian community of Baltimore.” Dissertation. Catholic U of America, 1971. [Bibliography, item 940]

Peck, John Gregory. “Urban station-migration of the Lumbee Indians.” Dissertation. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972. [Bibliography, item 944]

Makofsky, Abraham, and David Makofsky. “Class consciousness and culture: class identifications in the Lumbee Indian community of Baltimore.” Anthropological Quarterly 46.4 (1973): 261-77. [Bibliography, item 947]

Makofsky, Abraham. “Tradition and change in the Lumbee Indian community of Baltimore.” Maryland Historical Magazine 75.1 (1980): 55-71. [Bibliography, item 957]

McIrvin, Ronald. “The urban Indian: a profile of the Greensboro Native American population.” Urban growth and urban life: proceedings of the 3rd Urban Affairs Conference of N.C. Charlotte, 1981. Pp. 419-29. [Bibliography, item 986]

Barton, Bruce. “Robeson County Indian migration to the Claxton, Georgia area.” Unpublished typescript. Dec. 1985. 300p. [Bibliography, item 994]

Clark, Kenneth D. “Lumbee Indian migration to Detroit and their success in adjustment.” Thesis. Bowling Green State U, 1988. 69 p. [Bibliography, item 1003]

MAYN014. Maynor, Malinda M. People and place: Croatan Indians in Jim Crow Georgia, 1890-1920. Thesis. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. 43 p. 100 references (primary and secondary).

 MAYN008. Maynor, Malinda. "Finding wisdom in places: Lumbee family history." Indigenous diasporas and dislocations. Eds. Graham Harvey and Charles D. Thompson, Jr. Vitality of indigenous religions. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. 153-67.

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28. Biographical sources

No key sources. See Notable Lumbees page.
29.  Genealogical materials
Where our people lie: inventory of Native American burial sites in Robeson County. Lumberton: Robeson County Compensatory Indian Education Project, Robeson County Board of Education, 1986. [Bibliography, item 1025] 
Britt, Morris. “Indian names in Robeson County.” Robeson County Register 1.3 (Aug. 1986): 113. [Bibliography, item 1027]

Locklear, Grady. Genealogy: a perspective. Unpublished typescript. Feb. 1989. 394 p. [Bibliography, item 1032]

Britt, Morris F. “Robeson County Indian names: an analysis based upon the census of 1910.” Robeson County Register 6.3 (August 1991): 120-22. [Bibliography, item 1039]

Byrd, William L., III, and Sheila Spencer Stover. “In search of cultural identity. Part 2.” North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal February 1992: 48-54. [Bibliography, item 1041]

Robeson County, North Carolina Genealogy Page (part of The U.S. GenWeb Project).  Maintained by Victoria Proctor. [Bibliography Supplement, item ROBE001]

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29.5  Photography and film

Barreiro, Jose, and Steve Wall. “Lumbee Country: portraits of elders.” Northeast Indian Quarterly 5.2 (Summer 1988): 13-33. [Biblioigraphy, item 1030]
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30.  Oral history

University of Florida. Southeastern Indian Oral History Project. 126 Florida State Museum, Gainesville, FL, 32611. 904-392-1721 Item NewUFLA001
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31.  The Lumbee River; environment & environmentalism

McNeill, John Charles. “Lumber River.” 1905. Robesonian Feb. 1951 (Robeson County Historical Edition): Sec. 2 p. 1. [Bibliography, item 1052] 
Bauer, Ursula. “The River that wouldn't die.” Environmental Politics: Lessons from the Grassroots. Ed. Bob Hall. Durham: Institute for Southern Studies, 1988. Pp. 70-79. [Bibliography, item 1058]

Regan, Richard, and Mac Legerton. “Economic slavery or hazardous wastes? Robeson County's economic menu.” Commuities in economic crisis: Appalachia and the South. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990. Pp. 146-57. [Bibliography, item1061]

Ash, Andrew N. A preliminary natural areas inventory of the Lumber River floodplain. A report submitted to the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program [and] North Carolina Nature Conservancy. [Raleigh]: NC Dept. of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, 14 Nov. 1990. [Bibliography, item 1063]

Regan, Richard. “A river too good to waste.” Christian Social Action 2 (March 1989): 14-15. [Bibliography Supplement, item REGA001]

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32.  Archaeology of the Robeson County area

Knick, Stanley. Robeson Trails Archaeological Survey: reconnaissance in Robeson County. Pembroke: Native American Resource Center, Pembroke State U, 1988. NC Docs. Depository: microfiche G85 2: R654 [Bibliography, item 1071] 
“Study reveals Indians inhabited Robeson County 14,000 years ago.” Robesonian 7 Nov. 1988: B1. [Bibliography, item 1072]

Knick, Stanley. Robeson Crossroads Archaeological Survey: Phase II Testing in Robeson County. Pembroke, NC: Native American Resource Center, Pembroke State University, 1993. [Bibliography Supplement, item KNIC002]

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33.  The Henry Berry Lowry period

Townsend, George Alfred, comp. The Swamp Outlaws: or, the North Carolina Bandits; being a complete history of the modern Rob Roys and Robin Hoods. The Red Wolf Series. New York: Robert M. DeWitt, 1872. Another edition: The Swamp Outlaws of North Carolina. Philadelphia: Old Franklin Publishing House, 1872. [Bibliography, item 1078] 
“The North Carolina Bandits.” Harper's Weekly 16 (30 March 1872): 249, 251-2. [Bibliography, item 1081]

Norment, Mary C. The Lowrie history, as acted in part by Henry Berry Lowrie, the great North Carolina bandit. With biographical sketches of his associates. Being a complete history of the modern robber band in the county of Robeson and state of North Carolina. Wilmington: Daily Journal Printer, 1875. [Bibliography, item 1083]

Farris, James J. “The Lowrie Gang: an episode in the history of Robeson County, NC: 1864-1874.” Historical Papers Published by the Trinity College Historical Society. Ser. XV. Durham: Duke UP, 1925. Pp. 55-93. [Bibliography, item 1099]

1118. Evans, W. McKee. To die game: the story of the Lowry Band, Indian guerillas of Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1971. Reprinted, with a new foreword by James M. McPherson. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1995.

Barton, Garry Lewis. The life and times of Henry Berry Lowry. Pembroke: Lumbee Pub. Co., 1979. New edition. N.p.: Published and printed by Garry Lewis Barton, Feb. 1992. [Bibliography, item 1124]

Evans, W. McKee. “Henry Berry Lowry.” Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Ed. William S. Powell. Vol. 4. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1991. Pp. 104-05. [Bibliography, item 1134]

Maynor, Malinda. “Violence and the racial boundary: fact and fiction in the swamps of Robeson County, 1831-1871.” Honors Thesis (History and Literature), Harvard College, 1995. [Bibliography Supplement, item MAYN001]

Through Native Eyes: The Henry Berry Lowry Story. Videotape. Production, direction, and story by D. Van Coleman. “A NoDoze Production of a D. Van Coleman Film,” 1999. 52 min., 22 sec. [Bibliography Supplement, item THRO001]

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34.  Red Banks Mutual Association; farming

Baker, Fred A. Report on Siouan Tribe of Indians in Robeson County, North Carolina. Washington: Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Dept. of Interior, 9 July 1935. [National Archives and Records Admin., Washington, DC. File 37889-1935-(?) Cherokee, filed with 36208-1935-310-General Services, Central Classified Files, 1907-1939, RG 75.]  [Bibliography, item 1138] 
“Dr. Eaton makes report on Red Banks survey.” Pembroke Progress 8 July 1948: 1. [Bibliography, item 1152]

Brown, D. “'Radical' farm venture for Indians nears end.” News and Observer 15 Jan. 1967: III-12. [Bibliography, item 1156]

Brown, Dick. “U.S. stakes Lumbees to new future.” News and Observer 7 July 1968: Sec. 3 p. 8. [Bibliography, item 1158]

Anderson, Ryan K. “Lumbee kinship, commentary, and the success of the Red Banks Mutual Association.” American Indian Quarterly 23.2 (Spring 1999): 39-58.  [Bibliography Supplement, item ANDE001]

Okuda-Jacobs, Angelina. “Planting health, culture and sovereignty: traditional horticulture of the Lumbee Nation of North Carolina.” Thesis (M.S., Land Resources). U of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000. 90 pages. [Bibliography Supplement, item OKUD001]

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35.  The Ku Klux Klan routing

“Bad medicine for the Klan: North Carolina Indians break up Kluxers' anti-Indian meeting.” Life 44 (27 Jan. 1958): 26-28. [Bibliography, item 1175] 
“Indians back at peace and the Klan at bay.” Life 44 (3 Feb. 1958): 36-36A. [Bibliography, item 1182]

Craven, Charles. “The Robeson County Indian uprising against the Ku Klux Klan.” South Atlantic Quarterly 57 (Autumn 1958): 433-42. [Bibliography, item 1190]

Fox, Cynthia Gregory. “The Battle of Hayes Pond: The Ku Klux Klan versus the Lumbee Indians, Robeson County, North Carolina, 1958.” Thesis. East Carolina U, 1979. [Bibliographyitem 1198]

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36.  Lumbee and Tuscarora activism since the late 1980s

Brower, Montgomery, and Bill Shaw. “The murder of Julian Pierce provokes grief and grievances in troubled Robeson County.” People Weekly 29.15 (18 April 1988): 60-62, 65. [Bibliography, item 1227] 
Segrest, Mab. “Robeson County's 'third world ills'.” Christian Century 11 May 1988: 468-69. Rpt. (with modifications) in: Southern Changes [Atlanta: Southern Regional Council] 10.4 (July/Aug. 1988): 14-16. [Bibliography, item 1233]

A County on the Brink. Videotape. “Stateline.” University of North Carolina Center for Public Television and WTVD, Raleigh. Broadcast: 3 Nov. 1988. [Bibliography, item 1259]

Hold on! Robeson County's fight for justice. Videotape. Written and narrated by Mab Segrest. Durham: North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence, 1988. 35 min. [Bibliography, item 1261]

Menges, Jerri. “Feb. 1, 1998: Impact of hostage incident debated.” Robesonian 1 Feb. 1989: 1A. [Reflections from ten community leaders.]  [Bibliography, item 1268]

Patterson, Oscar, III. “The press held hostage: terrorism in a small North Carolina town.” American Journalism 15.4 (Fall 1998): 125-39. [Bibliography Supplement, item PATT001]

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37.  Federal bills; state and federal laws; federal hearings and  reports; court cases

1885 Laws of North Carolina ch. 51, “An act to provide for separate schools for Croatan Indians in Robeson County.” 10 Feb. 1885. Rpt. in Dial and Eliades (entry 54), Appendix B, and in McPherson (entry 49), Exhibit L 5 1/2. [Bibliography, item 1306] 
1911 Public Laws of North Carolina ch. 215, “An act the change the name of the Indians in Robeson County and to provide for said Indians separate apartments in  the state hospital.” 8 March 1911. Rpt. in McPherson (entry 49), Exibit L 12 and Dial and Eliades (entry 54), Appendix B. [Bibliography, item 1322]

1913 Public Laws of North Carolina ch. 123, “An act to restore to the Indians residing in Robeson and adjoining counties their rightful and ancient name.” 11 March 1913. Rpt. in McPherson (entry 49), Exhibit L 13 and Dial and Eliades (entry 54), Appendix B. [Bibliography, item 1327]

1953 North Carolina Session Laws ch. 874, “An act relating to the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina.” 20 April 1953. [Bibliography, item 1359]

84th Cong. 2nd Session. P.L. 84-570. “An act relating to the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina.” 70 Stat. 254. Dated 7 June 1956. Rpt. in U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News, 84th Cong., 2nd Session (1956), vol. 1, Laws; Dial and Eliades (entry 54), Appendix B. [Bibliography, item 1363]

Janie Maynor Locklear v. N.C. State Board of Elections, 379 F.Supp. 2 (20 June 1974). Reversed, 514 F.2d 1152 (23 April 1975). Affirmed, 529 F.2d 515 (26 Sept. 1975). [Bibliography, item 1370]

Lawrence Maynor, Appellant, v. Rogers C.B. Morton, Secretary, Dept. of the Interior, 510 F.2d 1254 (4 April 1975). Rpt. in S.Hrg. 100-881 (entry 1380). [Bibliography item 1372]

1987 North Carolina Session Laws ch. 605, “An act to merge all of the school administrative units in Robeson County, subject to a referendum.” 13 July 1987. [Bibliography, item 1378]
 
 

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38.  Curriculum materials

United native instruction to youth: an Indian studies curriculum for grades K-5 and 8-9. Developed by Title IV Part A, Robeson County Compensatory Indian Eduction Project and Robeson County Board of  Education. 1979. Also ERIC ED 219 2144. [Bibliography, item 1399] 
Knick, Stanley. Along the trail: a reader about Native Americans. Pembroke: Native American Resource Center, Pembroke State U, 1992. [Bibliography, item 1402]
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39.  The Robeson County context

Tyner, K. Blake. Robeson County. Images of America series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003. 128 pages. [Bibliography Supplement, item TYNE001]

40.  Lumbee communities in Robeson County
Blu, Karen I. “'Where do you stay at?' Home place and community among the Lumbee.” Senses of Place. Ed. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1996. Pp. 197-227.  [Bibliography Supplement, item BLU0002] 
Blu, Karen I. “'Reading back' to find community: Lumbee ethnohistory.” In North American Indian anthropology: essays on society and culture. Ed. Raymond J. DeMallie and Alfonso Ortig. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Pp. 278-95.   [Bibliography Supplement, item BLU0001.] 
Brayboy, Connee. Pembroke in the Twentieth Century. (The American Century Series.) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999. 96p. [Bibliography Supplement, item BRAY002]
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