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A snippet from  The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina's Tuscaroras   Chapter 5 The Good-Old-Boys Club Sucks Now   Miss Lucy found eggs and canned biscuits in the refrigerator and had breakfast on the table at 6:30. As Jake sat in front of his scrambled eggs across from his roomie, he said, “Bes a gaumed up mess. Sorry I got you into this.” “No,” her gentle smile warmed the cool kitchen, “I haven’t felt this alive since, since, a long time.” They returned kind expressions and drank a pot of coffee as Jake read through her clippings and stopped when a headline revealed that in 1973 several thousand pounds of stolen Bureau of Indian Affairs reports had been found in Maxton, NC. “Appalachian State’s website has a chronological list of events on the Robeson Peoples, but fails to include pertinent details, so I found the newspaper clipping from a library database and made a copy.” “And thi...

Synopsis of Chapters for  The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina’s Tuscarora Natives Tuscarora sisters hug at the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina's tribal grounds. The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina's Tuscaroras Chapter 1 , The Vexing Now , provides an enticing lecture on the Mighty Tuscarora and colonial period. This section is heavily annotated. Chapter 1 asks serious questions of the reader on how to best preserve one’s culture and introduces the local vernacular and identifies 21st century issues facing Robeson County, NC Natives and citizens. Chapter 2, Cut of His Jib Now , demonstrates how difficult it is to break cycles of behavior while it also exposes prejudice in belief systems. Children taught that Robeson County, NC people are Lumbee and not Tuscarora will struggle as adults when they attempt to explain the...

The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina's Tuscaroras  is thick with the region's vernacular. Here is a guide for you to chew on. Enjoy. It is collard sandwich flavored and goes best with sweet tea. Guide to Robeson County, NC’s Vernacular This vernacular is an endangered language. A-prefixing is no longer common. Example: He was a-looking for the cooter. A-prefixing is more common with older residents as well as the pronunciation of ‘i’ to ‘oy’ such as, high sounding hoy, which is a Portuguese language tradition. To hear the elders talk is to hear their history sung.   Dropping ‘g’s from plurals is a Portuguese tradition. Mon means man and is used at beginning of greetings and is from Elizabethan era. Juvember means sling shot or forked stick and is from Portugal. Is Elizabethan era. Mommuck means wild mess or treat something badly and is from the Elizabethan era. Toten means omen and is si...

In 2020, North Carolina’s Lumbee Tribe was a state recognized group of 60,000 members, according to the Dec. 5, 2019 federal recognition hearing. In April 2020, the tribe increased to 65,000, as citizens hoped for recognition. In 1885, citizens “voted” on the Lumbee name under the guise of a lawyer, Hamilton McMillan. This historical fiction shares the details of how this choice was actually made. The Lumbee receive financial assistance based on economic disparity rates. More members means more money. The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) hosts The Southeast Museum of Native American Indians. Tuscarora names, films, artifacts and their legendary heroes are choked to death with Lumbee ideology. The Lumbee Tribe claims the NC Tuscarora are a “splinter group” of the Lumbee in order to prevent the Tuscarora from attaining their own government recognition, and in hopes that the Tuscarora will submit to becoming members of the Lumbee Tribe, thus increasing the association’...

The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina's Tuscaroras  is a book within a book, set in rural North Carolina in the year 2020. Each chapter has a shadow chapter, i.e., Chapter 1, The Vexing Now , Jake’s present life, is shadowed by Chapter 1, The Vexing Then , Jake’s past life, which is a draft of a collaborated book with a librarian written out of desperation. Psychohistory binds the chapter versions while a love story propels the reader to learn if Jake Wilkes “bakes an apple pie” for his proposal as a love triangle’s roots are exposed and a tribe is threatened with extinction. The Lumbee Tribe recently “shadowed in” NC’s Tuscaroras as a “splinter tribe,” without their consent, thusly oppressing their heritage and efforts for reparations. This shadow-chapter method works to serve as a demonstration of human behavior in how political decisions are made. It demonstrates how time has changed the region’s cul...

Events leading to the construction of  The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina's Tuscaroras Photo of Preston Locklear is erroneously labeled as Lumbee in the Museum of the Southeast American Indian.   Preston Locklear has been identified as Tuscarora by Dr. Wood in his descendants' charts in "Tuscarora Roots." Preston Locklear's descendant, Donnie Red Hawk McDowell and others have notified the museum and the curator has a copy of the descendants' charts. The hope is that the museum will correct this soon, as well as other mislabeled exhibits.  During the research phase, I found Dr. Wood's report and asked for use of his report and he agreed and also agreed to share it in libraries.  To read Dr. Peter H. Wood's  Tuscarora Roots: An Historical Report Regarding the Relation of the Hatteras Tuscarora Tribe of Robeson County, North Carolina, to the Original Tuscarora Indian Tribe, se ...