Lumbee
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The Lumbee, also known as People of the Dark Water, are a mixed-race people group of the Americas, some of whom comprise the federally recognized Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Primarily located in R
Kelvin Sampson, a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
Angus Chavis, a Confederate volunteer in North Carolina at the age of 15
Preston Locklear with Rosetta Brooks, photographed in 1908.
The Croatan Normal School in Pembroke, N.C.
Melungeon
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Melungeon was a slur historically applied to individuals and families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina who were primarily descended from
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…peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands who once inhabited the region and have been shown to have connections with other racial isolate groups, such as the Melungeons and Louisiana Redbones. The Lumbee take their name from the Lumber River, which winds through Robeson County. Pembroke, North Carolina, in Robeson…
Goins family, Melungeons from Graysville, Tennessee, c. 1920s
"A Typical Malungeon" (1890) by Will Allen Dromgoole