| Contents |
Prologue / Linda E. Oxendine -- The meaning of context, the context of meaning : toward understanding the Lumbee -- Forward into the past : Lumbee ancestors before European conquest -- Reconstructing the past : population, trade and village life -- The time the world changed : epidemics, isolation and a new way of living -- Traditional culture : living in the new, keeping the old alive -- A manner of speaking : Lumbee language as an ethnic signpost -- A government question : playing the old familiar games -- A health connection : Lumbee child health in the late twentieth century -- The real Henry Berry : the Henry of fact, the Henry of fiction -- Facing the issues : some contemporary challenges for the Lumbee -- Because it's right : the Lumbee and federal recognition -- The Lumbee in context : understanding the patterns in the weave -- Epilogue / by Barbara Braveboy-Locklear -- References cited. |
