The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians
- ISBN-10
- 0815603606
- ISBN-13
- 9780815603603
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-02-01
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Authors
- Adolph L. Dial, David K. Eliades
Description
This is the standard history of the Lumbee Indian people of southwestern North Carolina, the largest Indian community in population east of the Mississippi. Dial and Eliades trace the history of this group through 1974. Among the subjects covered are the Lumbee during the colonial period and the revolutionary War; the Lowrie war; the infamous Lowrie Band of the Civil War; the development of the Lumbee educational system; Lumbee folklore; and the modern Lumbee
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