The SCOOP: Historic video reveals NC Tuscarora struggle - Trail of Broken Treaties, BIA Invasion, Lumbee, AIM

North Carolina Tuscarora press conference April 28, 2007 at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke with honored guests, elders Vernon Bellecourt and Floyd Red Crow Westerman, is inspiring.

This video shows that the same issues in 2007 are the same issues as today in 2020. Worse than that, the video reveals that in 2007, there was real hope for the Lumbees and NC Tuscaroras to unite and in 2020, that hope is greatly diminished. 

The elders in this video are the voices of the past who reflect the heart of the Nation and need remembrance. 

Tuscarora Rising of the Tuscarora Nation FB video

The irony of this video being taped at UNCP's Old Main building is that the Museum of the Southeast American Indian is right behind the speakers. The museum features Lumbee exhibits and even after scholarly research with Tuscarora lineage charts that correctly identify founder of UNCP Preston Locklear, and local hero Henry Berry Lowrie as Tuscarora, were provided in Jan. 2019, they are still labeled as Lumbee.  

There needs to be more press conferences, sit-ins and drum-ins to bring awareness to the continued oppression of North Carolina's Mighty Tuscaroras before they are, like the speaker Elder Vernon says, "invisible."

The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina's Tuscaroras follows a fictional storyline that shows how the sociolinguistics binds the Lumbee and Tuscaroras as community. It also shows the underground civil war that has been brewing for generations and is about to explode. Enjoy the 75 annotated references proving the evidence that there are 4 to 5 thousand NC Tuscaroras in the area today in 2020.

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