The Fight for Recognition

THE FIGHT FOR RECOGNITION It is hard to believe now that the plain and forthright flatlands of Robeson County could have hidden an entire people for generations. Most every part of North Carolina used to be tobacco country. But many, perhaps most, of the tobacco fields are abandoned now. The generation that has gone off to work the assembly lines in the Converse plant down at Lumberton, at Kelly-Springfield in Fayetteville, or at Campbell Soup …showed first 75 words of 2060 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2060 total…Interior's building on C street, in Washington, DC. Dreams, fantasies, and frail hopes lie thick on the plain metal shelves where the Bureau of Indian Affairs decide whether or not beads and feathers make an Indian real. BIBLIOGRAPHY Mihesuah, Devon A., American Indians: Myths and Realities, Clarity Press,         Atlanta, Georgia, (1996). Ramey, Joanne Oxendine, personal account,                  www.ornl.gov/diversity/ramey.html, (1995). Sider, Gerald, Lumbee Indian History: Race, Ethnicity and Indian Identity,         Cambridge University Press, Massachusettes, (1993).