Lumbee Problem The Making of an American Indian People

Name: Lumbee Problem The Making of an American Indian People
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ISBN: 9780803261976

ISBN-10: 0803261977

ISBN-13: 9780803261976

Edition: 2001

Authors: Karen I. Blu, Karen I. Blu, Karen Blu

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The Lumbee Problem traces the political and legal history of the Indians of Robeson County, arguing that Lumbee political activities have been powerfully affected by the interplay between their own and others conceptions of who they are.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Why the Lumbee?


Why should the Lumbee be of any general interest?


What kind of evidence is cited?


Robeson County today



Where did they come from and what were they like before?


Where did they come from?


What were they like before?



What changed and how?


Underlying conditions


Leaders and tactics


Identity conflict and change



What are they trying to do now?


County politics


The coalition



Who do they say they are?


How do Indians talk about themselves?


Traditions expressive of Indianness


Other behavioral qualities of Indianness



What difference does who they say they are make?


Membership in the Lumbee community


Black, White, and Indian identity concepts



Where does the Lumbee problem lead?


The "Lumbee problem" and American ethnicity


Ideas of "race" and "ethnic group" in America


How useful is the concept of "ethnicity"?


Toward understanding


Afterword



Events in Lumbee political history


Notes


Bibliography


Index