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The University of North Carolina at Pembroke is holding a Southeast Indian Studies Conference with theme: Tradition, Identity and Recognition, April 14 and 15, 2005
I am awaiting an email with a schedule and I will post it when I get it. In the meantime you can go to the following website for the announcement. UNCP is about an hour from home for me so I hope to be able to take a couple sick days to go to it. UNCP, by-the-way, was started to serve the education needs of the southeastern Indian tribes and is located in the midst of the current Lumbee Indian community area.
http://www.uncp.edu/ais/southeast_ indian_studies_conference_flyer.pdf
The attached file is the conference flyer and registration form. I converted it from Word to a plain text file since I didnt see .doc as a valid attachment file type at this forum. I anyone wants me to email the .doc file let me know.
I went to one day of this conference on Thursday. The topics were interesting, but did not help wth my particular research. The speakers knew they were coming to a conference hosted by a university that serves a population thick with Lumbee tribal members so presentations were a bit slanted in that direction.
There was a really interesting talk by Forest Hazel, Occaneechi Band of Saponi Nation, about the use of midwestern sources for information on southeastern tribes. He sited several court cases he had researched in Whitley Co, Indiana and in Green Co, Ohio from the mid-1800’s in which people wanted voting rights or the right to send children to attend school. They had to prove they were not black. There are records that seemingly define the blood lines of the families in question. Since these families were first generation in those areas the information could be used to prove bloodlines of eastern Indians. Myquestion about that is how many times were statements of race and bloodlines correct and not effected by the need to be politically correct to get the vote or admission to school, etc.
There was speaker, Ruth Bailey, who talked about the Morman influence on the Appalachia area and the Indians. Apparently, Indians were considered to be God’s chosen people by the Mormans and they were welcomed readily into Morman churches. It sounded as if many of the black, Indian,and mulungeon mountain people were tragets of early Morman missionaries.
There was a speaker, Dr. Teresa Lofton, who spoke on the experiences of the Lower Muskogee Creeks in Georgia.
There were two speakers who talked about Ella Deloria (1876 – 1971) who came to Robeson Co, NC and produced a pageant for the Robeson Co. Indians pre-WWI.
All-in-all it was interesting and enlightening. I bought a book about NC Indian tribe which gives general history and since I’m new to this research it will help me piece together who’s who. I also purchased some herbal hand lotion from Mary Locklear, an Indian (Lumbee?).
Cheryl
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