Lumbee tribal seal

Lumbee Culture

By kerrylynne1

  • "North Carolina passes laws preventing Indians from voting, or owning or using firearms."

    The Lumbees suffered from additional abuse also. Lumbee's were racialy profiled and suffered from many injustices. White men would place animals on their land, then claim that the Indians stole them. The Indians would have to pay a fine, along with free labor or a piece of their land.
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    Henry Barry Lowry starts the "Lowry War" to help with the oppression of the Lumbee people.

    He started a war against the white men and was praised by the Lumbee people. He is known as one fo the most hunted outlaws in this states history. This image was enhanced by his mysterious (and still unknown) dissappearance.

  • North Carolina recognizes the Indians of Robeson County as Croatan and establishes a seperate school system for them.

    The Lumbee Indians went through many different trials of recognization before they got to where they are today- this is one of the many.

  • Built Croatan Indian Normal School- Now UNCP

  • The Constituion changes, giving rights back to Lumbee tribe.

  • "The Croatan school board sets up "blood committees" to determine a child's right to attend the school based on his or her blood purity."

    They did have the authority to do this-it was given to them by the NC Supreme Court.

  • NCGA changes name to "indians of Robeson County"

  • Name ws changed again from Croatan to Cherokee Indians of Robeson County.

  • "Indian Agent O. M. McPherson concludes the Lumbee to be of Cheraw descent."

  • "Following the leadership of D.F. Lowrie and other community leaders the tribe votes to adopt the name Lumbee."

    They recieved/chose this name because of the Lumber River in Robeson County.

  • "The U.S. Congress recognizes name change and recognizes the Lumbee as American Indians.

    Specific language in the Lumbee Act, however, denies the tribe the customary Indian benefits.

  • KKK Protest

    Over five hundred armed Lumbees rout a group of protesting Ku Klux Klan members led by Wizard James W. "Catfish" Cole in a confrontation near Maxton, North Carolina. The Lumbee receive national attention. Indians Rout The Klan (From the Native American Resource Center at UNC Pembroke) The event is remembered as the "Battle of Hayes Pond" and ends Klan intimidation of the Lumbee.

  • Lumbee Recognition

    January 6, 2009, US Representative Mike McIntyre introduced legislation (H.R. 31) intended to grant the Lumbee Indians federal recognition.
    June 3, 2009, the US House voted 240 to 179 for federal recognition for the Lumbee tribe, acknowledging that they are the descendants of the Cheraw tribe.
    October 22, 2009, the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs approved a bill for federal recognition of the Lumbee.