Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a NationWith more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies for Indians throughout the nation. They did so against the backdrop of some of the

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The intent of What the Chickadee Knows is to create a record of the contemporary Anishinaabe worldview as it is situated between the traditions of the past and as it contributes to the innovation needed for survival into the future

His intuition and vision are unmatched

We need Scott Momaday's calm

Foreword by Wendell Berry

which sleeps but doesn't dream

this substantive book features forty-five articles from community members

these original reminiscences of elders of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe bring to life the creative genius of some of Ojibwe country's most gifted storytellers

" — Teresa Peterson

A member of the Tlicho Dene First Nation

Red Shirt became increasingly aware of the distance between her world and that of her ancestors

and her grandmother