The Lumbee Indians: an American struggle

1. We Have Always Been a Free People ; Interlude: Homecoming

2. Disposed to Fight to Their Death ; Interlude: Family Outlaws and Family Bibles

3. In Defiance of All Laws ; Interlude: Whole and Pure

4. The Justice to Which We Are Entitled ; Interlude: Pembroke, North Carolina, 1960

5. Integration or Disintegration ; Interlude: Journeys, 1972–1988

6. They Can Kill Me, but They Can’t Eat Me ; Interlude: Cherokee Chapel Holiness Methodist

Church, Wakulla, North Carolina, January 2010

7. A Creative State, Not a Welfare State

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; PREFACE; A GENEALOGY; Interlude: Watts Street Elementary School, Durham, North Carolina, 1978; INTRODUCTION; Interlude: What Are You?; 1. We Have Always Been a Free People: Encountering Europeans; Interlude: Homecoming; 2. Disposed to Fight to Their Death: Independence; Interlude: Family Outlaws and Family Bibles; 3. In Defiance of All Laws: Removal and Insurrection; Interlude: Whole and Pure; 4. The Justice to Which We Are Entitled: Segregation and Assimilation; Interlude: Pembroke, North Carolina, 1960

5. Integration or Disintegration: Civil Rights and Red PowerInterlude: Journeys, 1972-1988; 6. They Can Kill Me, but They Can't Eat Me: The Drug War; Interlude: Cherokee Chapel Holiness Methodist Church, Wakulla, North Carolina, January 2010; 7. A Creative State, Not a Welfare State: Creating a Constitution; EPILOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z