Blog Post at First Peoples/New Directions Publishing Initiative

Troubles Decolonizing a Colonial History now on the First Peoples/New Directions Publishing Initiative Website! Thank you Abby Mogollon! ************************* Much work in the the field of Native American history has centered on Indians’ relationships with European colonizers and the U.S. government, perhaps rightly so. As historians, we are trained to analyze primarily the written word, [...]

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You’re Invited: Lumbee History Roundtable, June 26

You are invited to come to a lunchtime roundtable exploring Lumbee history in the Jim Crow era featuring a panel of distinguished community members, including: Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs, Department of American Indian Studies, UNC-Pembroke Mr. Blake Tyner, Robeson County History Museum Mr. Garth Locklear, Lumbee Veteran and Historian Mr. Elisha Locklear, Tuscarora Veteran and [...]

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Who Pulls the Strings?

I’m very pleased and honored to be a guest blogger for First Peoples Publishing Initiative! Today they’ve posted reflections and reporting on the Lumbee tribal council’s recent shift in their federal recognition strategy. There are many parallels with the past…and as William Faulkner may have said, “the past is not dead, it’s not even past.”

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