Notes, acknowledgements and stuff you might want to know about The Exsanguination of the Second Society

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’s state funding.

The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina's Tuscaroras serves to address the Tuscarora cover-up with entertaining characters and unexpected twists as the true history of North Carolina’s Central Eastern Natives is revealed. The storyline serves to reveal the underground civil war while the scholarly references reveal the facts. 

This book carries a plethora of annotated history and follows the storyline: The main character is desperate to help his childhood friend, whose death made headlines.

Thank you, Donnie Red Hawk McDowell, a graduate of UNCP with a Bachelor’s in Native American Indian History, a lifetime Robeson County, NC resident, and Tuscarora, for your generous time, shared knowledge and for providing the realism of a warrior.

Donnie Red Hawk McDowell. 2020.

Dr. Peter H. Wood, emeritus history professor at Duke University, shared his report with me and then agreed to allow Tuscarora Roots: An Historical Report Regarding the Relation of the Hatteras Tuscarora Tribe of Robeson County, North Carolina, to the Original Tuscarora Indian Tribe to be included in UNCP’s library’s Special Collections. It was submitted January 7, 2020 and it is now May 24, 2020 and it is still not active in their library. But the report can now be read at the larger institution unencumbered by administrative censorship, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The report contains an indigenous report, genealogical evidence and points to false narratives which have prolonged the oppressiveness suffered by these aboriginals. The Tuscarora descendants’ charts list Locklear, Lowry, Chavis, and Cumbo.

Each of Wood’s references in his report have been verified.

Narratives are evaluated by verifying the reference with its annotated narrative. When a suggestive reference includes several full-length books without page numbers, speculation to false narrative is a concern. The UNCP library has several reference books on Tuscarora history and the making of the Lumbees and their lives now which contain erroneous references.

In 2019, Dr. Peter H. Wood of Duke University wrote a testimony for the Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina. He earned a BA and PhD at Harvard University.  He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and in the early 1970s, worked for the Rockefeller Foundation.  While there, Wood oversaw grants to Native American scholars and institutions.  (One recipient was the late George Horse Capture (Gros Ventre), who later became a leader at the National Museum of the American Indian.) 

“The effort to reassert Tuscarora identity more publicly during the early 1970s was viewed by some as a manufactured pose in an activist era.  But in fact, it represented an acknowledgment of roots that were extremely deep.  These ties had been obscured by generations of speculation about how all the Indians of Robeson County might best be lumped together under one title.  The recognition of the Lumbee in 1956 should not limit or constrain any Tuscarora recognition claim,” Wood wrote in his testimony.

Thank you, Dr. Wood, for your dedication.

Dr. Peter H. Wood now.

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