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  1. Dark water

    Lumbee (pronounced LUM-bee). The name came from the Lumber River

    Lumber River

    The Lumber River is a 133-mile-long river in south-central North Carolina in the flat Coastal Plain. European settlers first called the river Drowning Creek, which still is the name of its headwater. The waterway known as the Lumber River extends downstream from the Scotland County-Hoke Cou…

    , sometimes called the “Lumbee,” that runs through the area of North Carolina where most of the tribe live. Lumbee means “dark water” in Algonquian

    Algonquian languages

    The Algonquian languages are a subfamily of American indigenous languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the indigenous Ojibwe langu…

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    What happened to the Lumbee language?
    English was used extensively among the Lumbee tribe, both as a practical lingua franca and also as a first language (due to intermarriage with English speakers), and the original Lumbee languages fell into disuse and finally extinction.
    What is Lumbee Vernacular English?
    Linguistic features of Lumbee Vernacular English include perfective “I’m” (“I’m got to do it”), finite “bes” (“sometimes it bes that way”), and consonant cluster reduction (“ol’” for “old,” for example). Some of the ways in which Lumbee speakers combine and pronounce words distinguish them from African American or white speakers in Robeson County.
    dsi.appstate.edu/projects/lumbee/about-the-lumbee/intro…
    Who are the Lumbee Indians?
    The Lumbees are recognized by the state of North Carolina if not the federal government, and they are 40,000 people strong, making them one of the largest Native American tribes remaining in the eastern US. History: The Croatan (or Croatoan) Indians first made history when the Roanoke colony left their name carved on a tree.
    What is the Lumbee Act?
    The Lumbee Act, also known as H.R. 4656 (Pub.L. 84–570, 70 Stat. 254), passed by Congress in late May 1956 as a concession to political lobbying and signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, designated the Lumbee as an Indian people.
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    The Lumbee are a Native American people primarily centered in Robeson, Hoke, Cumberland and Scotland counties in North Carolina. They also live in surrounding states and Baltimore, Maryland. The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is a state-recognized tribe in North Carolina numbering approximately … See more

    Early historical references
    Archaeological evidence reveals that the area now known as Robeson County (central to modern Lumbee territory) has been continuously occupied by Native people for at least … See more

    Lost Colony of Roanoke
    In 1885, the Democratic politician Hamilton MacMillan proposed the theory that the Native inhabitants of Robeson County were descendants of England's "Lost Colony of Roanoke", who intermarried with what he described … See more

    Surnames
    Locklear, Oxendine, Lowry, Hunt, Chavis, Brayboy, and Bullard are common Lumbee surnames.
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    Some unrecognized organizations identify as being Lumbee. One, the United Lumbee Nation of North Carolina and America, based in Exeter, California, petitioned for federal recognition in 1980. The final determination was that the group "does not exist as … See more

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    The Lumbee are heavily concentrated in Robeson County on the southern border of the state. Over the years, the Lumbee have migrated to other areas primarily for employment. Sizeable Lumbee settlements are in Cumberland, Sampson, Hoke See more

    The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is one of eight state-recognized Native American tribes in North Carolina. They participate at the state level in many ways, including in the North … See more

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  4. Language: Lumbee English | Digital Scholarship and Initiatives

    https://dsi.appstate.edu/projects/lumbee/topic/language-lumbee-english

    WebLumbee English: Tar Heel American Indian Dialect." In: Talkin’ Tar Heel: How our voices tell the story of North Carolina . Chapel Hill: UNC P, 2014. Pp. 216-242.

  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cVnhWSMLn4

    WebSep 11, 2008 · Lumbee English: Part 1 84,567 views Sep 11, 2008 424 Dislike Share Save The Language & Life Project 55.3K subscribers Part 1 of an excerpt from "Indian by Birth: …

  6. Introduction to the Lumbee | Digital Scholarship and Initiatives

    https://dsi.appstate.edu/projects/lumbee/about-the-lumbee/introduction

    WebLinguistic features of Lumbee Vernacular English include perfective “I’m” (“I’m got to do it”), finite “bes” (“sometimes it bes that way”), and consonant cluster reduction (“ol’” for “old,” …

  7. https://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/lumbee

    WebLumbee English bears the imprint of British English, Highland Scots, and Scots-Irish. This dialect of North Carolina native Americans is distinctly different from their Anglo-American …

  8. www.native-languages.org/lumbee.htm

    WebLanguage: The language most commonly referred to as 'Lumbee' was an Algonkian language also known as Croatan or Pamlico, but the ancestors of the modern-day

  9. www.native-languages.org/lumbee_words.htm

    WebLumbee, also known as Croatan or Croatoan, is an Algonquian language, related to other languages like Powhatan and Wampanoag . We have included twenty basic Lumbee …

  10. https://indyweek.com/news/examples-lumbee-dialect

    WebDec 06, 2000 · pocosin: (noun) big swamp since the shake: (prep. phrase) in a long time sow cat: (noun) term of endearment for a child yurker: (noun) mischievous child From A …

  11. https://www.jstor.org/stable/455737

    WebBE(S) IN LUMBEE ENGLISH vide some insight into the kinds of English language contact situations that have framed and continue to frame the Lumbee sociolinguistic context. In …

  12. Lumbee Vernacular English | The Lumbee Indians

    https://lumbee.library.appstate.edu/additional...

    WebLumbee Vernacular English. On the construction of vernacular dialect norms. Wolfram, Walt. “On the construction of vernacular dialect norms.” CLS 36: The panels. The …

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