The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle

by Malinda Maynor Lowery
The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle

by Malinda Maynor Lowery

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Overview

Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters—the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers—disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different story. As the largest tribe east of the Mississippi and one of the largest in the country, the Lumbees have survived in their original homelands, maintaining a distinct identity as Indians in a biracial South. In this passionately written, sweeping work of history, Malinda Maynor Lowery narrates the Lumbees' extraordinary story as never before. The Lumbees' journey as a people sheds new light on America's defining moments, from the first encounters with Europeans to the present day. How and why did the Lumbees both fight to establish the United States and resist the encroachments of its government? How have they not just survived, but thrived, through Civil War, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and the war on drugs, to ultimately establish their own constitutional government in the twenty-first century? Their fight for full federal acknowledgment continues to this day, while the Lumbee people's struggle for justice and self-determination continues to transform our view of the American experience. Readers of this book will never see Native American history the same way.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781469666105
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 08/01/2021
Pages: 328
Sales rank: 215,604
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Malinda Maynor Lowery (Lumbee) is Cahoon Family Professor in American History at Emory College. She is the author of Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South.

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A compelling blend of personal recollection and rigorous research and writing that will captivate readers.—Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie



This book is nothing less than a retelling of American history itself, a story marked not just by violence and betrayal but also by kindness, tenacity, and a deep sense of belonging. Lowery is a fine writer with a splendid narrative flair.—Elizabeth Fenn, author of Encounters at the Heart of the World



I have been waiting a long, long time for just this book, a comprehensive history of the Lumbee people by a distinguished historian who is also a Lumbee Indian. Lowery's voice is one that can speak powerfully not simply about the history but from within the history and her own family. It's an eloquent voice, an important history, an extraordinary people.—Josephine Humphreys, author of Nowhere Else on Earth



The compelling saga of the Lumbee nation demands to be heard, and Malinda Maynor Lowery's transcendent historical and cultural mastery of the Lumbee past make her the paramount historian to write it. This profound and lyrical work, in both its impeccable scholarship and its dazzling and seductive storytelling, reveals anew that the complexities of American history remain impenetrable without the foundational prism of Native American experience. And yet the Lumbee story illuminates that larger history better than any that spring to mind. Lowery's radiant narrative unveils the Lumbee nation from distinctive angles of vision with which we all must reckon to understand even our own histories.—Timothy B. Tyson, author of The Blood of Emmett Till

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