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Title

Living Indian histories : Lumbee and Tuscarora people in North Carolina / Gerald Sider ; with a new preface by the author.

Author

Sider, Gerald M.

Publication

Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]

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Sider, Gerald M.

Description

lxxii, 309 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• "With more than 40,000 registered members, the Lumbee Indians are the ninth largest tribe in the country and the largest east of the Mississippi River. Despite the tribe's size, the Lumbee lack full federal recognition and their history has been marked by a struggle to articulate an Indian identity against the imposition of non-native definitions of Indianness. Gerald Sider explores the complexities of Lumbee tribal identity, focusing on the tribe's socioeconomic and political history from the 1960s through the 1980s and working back to the colonial roots of present issues and questions, including the relationship between the Lumbee and Tuscarora people of Robeson County, North Carolina."
• "In an extensive preface to this new edition, Sider carries the story forward from the 1980s to the present. Today, both the Lumbee and the reinvigorated Tuscarora are witnessing a major cultural resurgence. At the same time, they are becoming much more dependent upon government programs for their well-being, and socioeconomic inequality among native people is deepening. This new edition explores changing patterns of daily life for native people, their changing relations to social and governmental institutions, and the new tribal institutions that are taking shape in the face of current challenges."--Jacket.

Subject

• Lumbee Indians > Ethnic identity
• Lumbee Indians > History
• Lumbee Indians > Government relations

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Lumbee Indian histories. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-306) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Introductions -- 1. Within and against history -- 2. Toward and past recognition -- 3. Elements of the known: Human dignity, the politics of accommodation, and the landscape of confrontation -- pt. 2. The embers of hope -- 4. Challenges to respect -- 5. The fires of race -- 6. The embers of Hope, Inc -- pt. 3. "Root hog or die" -- 7. Prospect and loss -- 8. The original 22 -- 9. Henry Berry Lowery lives forever -- pt. 4. "Now our inmates": Colonial formations and formation's heritage Prologue -- 10. Six pounds of paint to encourage the Indians: The origins of native vulnerability -- 11. Distinguishing the headmen: The history of local histories.

ISBN

0807855065 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003016688

OCLC

52766164

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Harvard Library