People and Place: Croatan Indians in Jim Crow Georgia, 1890-1920.
The writer investigates the migration in 1890 of a group of Croatan Indians, now called Lumbees, from their home in Robeson County, North Carolina, to Bulloch County, Georgia. She argues that instead of claiming a continuous connection to a specific place in order to sustain their Indian identity,...
| Publicado en: | American Indian Culture & Research Journal Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 37 - 64 |
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UCLA American Indian Studies Center
2005
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| Sumario: | The writer investigates the migration in 1890 of a group of Croatan Indians, now called Lumbees, from their home in Robeson County, North Carolina, to Bulloch County, Georgia. She argues that instead of claiming a continuous connection to a specific place in order to sustain their Indian identity, this group of Croatans used the segregation of the Jim Crow South to construct such social institutions as a school and church to distinguish themselves from non-Indians and reinforce their community ties. |
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