I previously wrote this post before the website crashed, and I can’t find the original post. Gerald Sider’s Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina focuses on the creation of Lumbee and Tuscarora communities in the state, … Continued

Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity: Indian-Black Intermarriage in Southern New England, 1760-1880 by Daniel R. Mandell is an elaborate look into the lives of Indians in southern New England during the 18th century. As Mandell cultivates this insight he … Continued

Chapter 2 of Karen Blu’s book “The Lumbee Problem” focuses on two important aspects regarding the history of the Lumbee people: Where did they come from? And what were they like before. Blu presumes to answer these two questions by … Continued

This week’s reading was from Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery’s (newly released!) Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South.  In the preface, she introduces the book as a look at how Lumbee Identity has been formed over time.  This formation of … Continued

Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South By Malinda Maynor Lowery In her book Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South, Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery explores how the identities of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County were shaped in Robeson … Continued

            James Taylor Carson frames his article, “The Obituary of Nations’: Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South,” around the 1830 Indian Removal Bill.  He begins by quoting Richard H. Wilde of Georgia who believed that progress … Continued

The Obituary of Nations: Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and Origins of the Old South” by James Taylor Carson and “Croatan Indians in Jim Crow Georgia, 1890-1920” by Malinda Maynor Carson’s “The Obituary of Nations” uses a theme of a death notice … Continued

James Taylor Carson.  “’The Obituary of Nations’:  Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South.”  Southern Culture  Winter 2008, 6-29. Malinda Maynor.  “People and Place:  Croatan Indians in Jim Crow Georgia, 1890-1920.”  American Indian Culture and Research Journal, … Continued