{"id":46595,"date":"2016-04-13T00:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46595"},"modified":"2016-04-13T00:02:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:02:16","slug":"lumbee-indians-seek-end-to-a-century-of-questions-about-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46595","title":{"rendered":"Lumbee Indians seek end to a century of questions about identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lumbee Indians seek end to a century of questions about identity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Baltimore Sun<\/a>
\nBaltimore, Maryland
\n1993-10-12<\/p>\n

Richard O’Mara<\/a><\/strong>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Proud people from North Carolina<\/a> find a home in Baltimore<\/em><\/p>\n

Shirley Jeffrey, an East Baltimore<\/a> resident, remembers the painful moment five years ago when two Sioux Indians<\/a> told her that “Lumbees<\/a> aren’t really Indians.”<\/p>\n

Jimmy Hunt recalls a similar experience as an Army recruit when a sergeant asked the American Indians in the group to stand up. “There were two others besides myself,” he says. “Later they said I wasn’t an Indian because I was a Lumbee.”<\/p>\n

Not really Indians? How could this be said of the largest American Indian group east of the Mississippi<\/a>? The ninth-largest in the United States, with nearly 50,000 members, according to the Bureau of the Census. About 4,300 of them are in Maryland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The question of identity has troubled the Lumbees for more than a century, but it may be resolved this year if Congress approves a bill introduced by Rep. Charles Rose III, D-N.C.<\/a>, to extend full recognition to the tribe.<\/p>\n

It’s not that Mrs. Jeffrey is uncertain about who she is. Nor is Mr. Hunt…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lumbee Indians seek end to a century of questions about identity The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Maryland 1993-10-12 Richard O’Mara, Staff Writer Proud people from North Carolina find a home in Baltimore Shirley Jeffrey, an East Baltimore resident, remembers the painful moment five years ago when two Sioux Indians told her that “Lumbees aren’t really Indians.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,3015,5113,20],"tags":[5973,11718,23542,23544,15548,5972,879,23541,23543,11717],"class_list":["post-46595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-sun","tag-charles-rose-iii","tag-jimmy-hunt","tag-lumbee-indians","tag-maryland","tag-north-carolina","tag-richard-omara","tag-shirley-jeffrey","tag-the-baltimore-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46596,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46595\/revisions\/46596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}