I have heard of the story of the so-called Lumbee Indians who reside mainly in Lumberton and Pembroke North Carolina. From what I am told, these "Lumbees" are a made up race of native americans, and also they are not recognized by any government agency. What do you think?
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They arent recognized by the US Government, but they are as real a Soverign Nation as it gets.  Just like the rest.  Just 'cause the US Government says it's so does not make it correct!
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Through the Ouachita Mountain Range in Eastern Oklahoma, and all along the Indian Nation Turnpike, there are miles and miles of rolling mounds as far as you can see. These are NOT burial grounds.\nI think Pathstr8t was historically correct, but that answer was quite insulting, if you ask me. ONE, you must be "studying these things" or you wouldn't be asking. TWO, "teepee" is a correct term, and THREE, what makes them so sure there weren't villages where mounds developed, because I know my father and I have found many, many arrowheads and artifacts in those mounded plowed fields.There is no need to be insulting to other askers.
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i have several times..brought some friends along for some trips. In this area we have acient colonial plantation and slave houses just scatterd every where. Some are deep in over grown forrests others are lucky they survived the paving of the new raods they are so close.\nI really enjoy the sights of those old old houses...so much history...but it feels like there are the ghosts of the previous owners watching your every move..not quite hostile yet but wary...enough to give you prickles up your neck.\nAnd how could it be illegal if no one has lived in it for ages upon ages? I mean really why waste the history lesson of how people lived.\nThen the next adventure is to wander into the family grave yards and try make out the dates and writing on the stones...
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More and more generalizations everyday! Be careful how you state questions. You'll get answers like the above and soon to come. Their so sensitive, some people.\n\nAnd, I really wish people would stop saying we sold ourselves...It's FALSE! They did it for survival because white people were going to either take one tribe or the other. They sold each other out because they were enemy tribes mostly anyway. With different customs and even languages. \n\nBy saying we sold each other out YOU are racist. You are clumping all those blacks together who were always enemies before whites came to conquer and exploit. Get YOUR facts straight!!\n\nI agree with you asker!
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To be able to help you, I wouldneed you to add to your question (so I could find it again).  You would ned to list the City and State in which they reside.  THat would be a great start.  One question I would like answered, is this on the Indian Reservation?  \n\nDid he or they apply for  Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA)?  Maybe not, if they were disable prior.  \n\nAnyway, be more specific.  Indian reservation or not?  It matters if you want good answers.\n\nIndians there suffer, however Indians here in the Great Northwest get checks every month becasue of their fortune.  Below is a story of just how bad these Indians have it.\n    Jun 30, 2002\n\n    Wildfire Leaves Apaches With Misery--and Pain\n\n    By TOM GORMAN and STEVE BERRY , LA Times Staff Writers\n\n    WHITERIVER, Ariz. -- Even in good times, this Apache Indian reservation community struggles from paycheck to paycheck. The 60- year-old homes need paint and screens, fences miss slats, hulks of old cars sit abandoned in backyards.\n\n    For hundreds of Apaches, Wednesday's paychecks will be the last for months because their forest has burned. Fire robbed the town of its main livelihood: ponderosa pines to be milled at the tribe's Fort Apache Timber Co.\n\n    "We will go broke by the end of the month," said Cindy Bennett as her husband picked up his last paycheck Wednesday at the mill.\n\n    About 70% of the 330 employees at the tribal company's two mills were laid off Monday as the Rodeo-Chediski fire, the nation's largest, raged through the White Mountains of northeastern Arizona. The remaining employees will be out of work in two weeks.\n\n    The fire's devastation is being felt throughout Navajo County at least 339 homes destroyed, 410,000 acres of forest charred.\n\n    But perhaps nowhere is the economic fallout of the fire felt more immediately than by the White Mountain Apache Tribe.\n\n    In coming days, hundreds of Apaches will run out of money to buy food and medicine. The tribe already has lost millions of dollars in revenue that goes toward a variety of social services and the cost of running its government. There are no trees to cut for the mills, no elk to attract hunters, no tourists to gamble in its casino or fill its motels and restaurants all revenue that feeds the tribe's general coffers.\n\n    The pain is felt in other ways too: Apaches are frequently targeted with icy stares when they shop off the reservation, blamed for the fire because it started on their reservation. There is resentment, too, that the Apaches' suffering is going unnoticed, with so much attention being paid to the plight of the other mountain residents.\n\n    "It was all Show Low this and Show Low that," said Sandra DeClay, referring to the city north of here that was besieged by the blaze.\n\n    "We are suffering," said Dallas Massey Sr., chairman of the tribe, which has 12,000 adult members. "Even before this, we had so many unmet needs, in infrastructure, in housing."\n\n    Indeed, this tribe was already in a world of hurt. Before this week's layoffs, unemployment stood at a staggering 60%. Household income for a full half of the families is below poverty level.\n\n    The reservation's beauty belies the economic hardships of those living here; most of its 1.6 million acres are carpeted in ponderosa pines; streams and lakes attract anglers, elk attract the hunters.\n\n    But in Whiteriver, where tribal government is headquartered in two, one-story brick buildings, there are only a handful of businesses a band, a gas station, a restaurant and small motel among others.\n\n    For the last seven years, Nelson Bennett Jr., 37, made a living sorting and stacking freshly cut lumber. He earned about $800 a month; most of it went for groceries and the $235 car payment for his '93 Chevrolet, chronically in need of repair.\n\n    And then there's the utilities, and medicine, and the occ
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They are a mix of black former slaves and french settlers, as well as native american in the Louisana low country.  They have a full range of complextions just with any mixed culture, but most look like "tan causians".  As far and personality there is a strong community that speaks the language and keeps cultural traditions, but the younger generations are americanized.
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Who lives like they used to?  How many grandmothers still go to a creek to fetch the day's water here in America?\n\nSome Native Americans live on reservations and many don't; others have chosen varying degrees of assimilation. \n\nIt's unlikely that any entire group speaks with one voice,  except that they may be unified in wanting non-indigenous people to leave the Americas.  Then perhaps the first of them that arrived across the land bridge will want the second group that arrived that way to leave, too.\n\nProbably there is enough reservation land to accommodate those who would like to live like they used to; they could choose environmental policies to foster herds of bison, and streams full of fish and assume the ways of their ancestors.\n\nI am 1/8 Indian, my children are 1/4.  We only found out after the deaths of our parents on both sides. Obviously, assimilation took place many years ago, and while we might like to experience some of what our ancestors did to live, it would not be forever.
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I resent you saying that I have the same mind set as my ancestors whom you claim owned slaves.  All white people did not own slaves, in fact, a lot of them were against it and fought for the freedom of the slaves.  I have always been on the slaves side when I have read or seen anything about slavery.  Just because I am white does not mean I think slavery is acceptable.  I think it was deplorable!  However, a lot of other people have been wronged in history too, mainly, the indians whom we stole this very land from.  Are you going to make repairations to the indians for the fact that YOUR ancestors stole THEIR land????!!!!!
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My grandfather told me about a cousin who did this back in the forties. The cousin went up North to live and didn't contact anyone.  My grandpa went to visit him one time; the cousin made him come at night and he had to enter the house through the back.  After that no one ever saw the cousin again.  My mother told me about some Blacks who "passed" for a time in order to get a better education, but then returned to their families once they were done.  I can see why some Blacks would pass in earlier times, but not now.  I don't agree with what they did, but to some extent I understand why.  Personally even if I could "pass" I wouldn't; I love my family, my people and my culture too much.  People who "pass" had to stay away from all Black people.  Can't take a chance on someone's "Blackdar" finding you out!
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"Native" Americans (Indians) are everywhere. They don't all live on reservations. They mix and mingle with other 'native' Americans. They aren't all poor either. So get off the pity train. My family is of Native American descent and we don't consider ourselves 'poor'. We have average to above average incomes, own our own homes and have college degrees (we have attorneys,doctors and business owners in our immediate family). Open your eyes, we're everwhere.\n\nIf you are talking about Americans who are 'native', meaning born here, not immigrants. We are everywhere, too. Are you blind?
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That is so sad.  I had an Uncle who was a member of the KKK for awhile.  Don't know how he ended up there, the rest of the family is not racist whatsoever.  I can't believe that people are still like that in this day and age.  Narrow mindedness is right!!!!
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Is there a document from America apologizing for what they did to the native American Indians?  Is there a document from America apologizing for what they did to all the immigrants who first came to this country and were stuck on Ellis Island?  Is there any documentation from America apologizing for ANY of the crap they've done?  \n\nEven if there is, who really cares?  \n\nThese kind of questions will not make that happen and do nothing but increase the ignorant fury of others who never knew the hardships of anybody from that time period - white or black.  There is no reason to understand why ANYBODY did not or will not say they are sorry for any indignation anyone was put through back then and now.  So stop expecting a miracle!  It just isn't going to happen!\n\nLet's move on in life and stop acting as if racism is the most important issue we have to deal with today.  Questions like these simply spur up that kind of nasty attitude from people who don't even know WHY they dislike a certain culture.  \n\nGood grief!
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As a person who grew up and lives "down south" and who has lived in New England as well, I'd like to respond to this one...\n\nIt depends on how they're raised. In my family people are people, we're part Cherokee, my daughter is multi racial and even my relatives that most people would consider "rednecks" have no problem with that. I dated who I wanted... Native, black, white... I dated guys I liked because of who they were, not what they were...\n\nPeople hate what they fear, and fear what they don't know... If the only people they have met from a different race treated them badly they will tend to lump all together...\n\nThere is a big difference between "southern" and "bigot" and tbh I met just as many bigots in New England as here... it is just more hidden, people tend to "stick to their own" and not socialize outside their race much, I noticed. \n\nAlmost as bad as racism was this hypersensitivity to anything that might possibly construed as a racial issue (this was mostly white people) and being constantly aware of it like that is a sign that you are racist I think... If you never really think about what color someone is, then you are color blind, if you're constantly aware of everyone's race then you aren't...\n\nIgnorant, intolerant and judgmental people live all over the place... north, south, USA, Mexico, Europe... no one country or area has a monopoly on it.
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i think you dont know what your talking about, and your critizing a race, because of a few people you have ran into who did it to you. your doing exactly what you seem to be trying to say your against, all im going to say to you is, you obviously dont get it and never will. and do some research maybe you'll learn something and see the diffrences in what your talking about! do you know anything about slavery? i dont think you are getting the big picture! i can suggest some books for you if you need it! and i think you do, you ever seen roots? try watching that! oh one more thing slavery is diffrent everywhere, just because they all have history of slavery doesnt mean it was the same, or they went through the same things! you need to learn something, before you try and preach to the world! have a great day, BYE!
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how about Native American's wating to build casinos but dealing with the red tape of zoning and town councils?  Of what about the conflict in RI about the Narragansett Indian Tribe's smoke shop on tribal land getting raided by the state police?
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Never heard of such a thing. Are you sure? Where is information on it. That's like Jewish nazis, or a Native American republican.
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I think Native Americans are sooo nice!  I knew several full-blooded NA's from the Menominee tribe.  Very friendly folks. I think everyone believes NA's are still one with nature, even today.  I watched a lot of the Native American Grammy's (Nammy's?), and thought it was cool how the music ranged from folk music, pop, a reggaeton sound, and even almost hip-hop. I also liked how their dress, onstage, was from native attire to waaay more up-to-date than what I wear. I thought it proved that NA's don't just wear leather & feathers and play drums.  I think everyone feels guilty about the land that was taken away from people who initially welcomed the new visitors.  I have Shawnee blood in me from the Algonquian tribe.