Hamilton McMillan at UNCP: The controversial statue

 

The Hamilton McMillan (grave mound digger) statue at UNC Pembroke is a grim reminder of McMillan's scandalous deeds. 
The red paint was sprayed during the 2020 summer BLM riots and the paint was removed the next day.

 The University of North Carolina at Pembroke touts itself as both one of the most diverse campuses and a Lumbee Indian campus. But there are no significant dedications to North Carolina Tuscaroras on the campus, or in the museum where some displays are misrepresented and administration refuses to discuss North Carolina Tuscarora interests.

There is however, a statue of Hamilton McMillan who swindled the North Carolina Tuscarora natives out of their heritage. It lingers at Old Main’s entrance where the Native American Indian Studies program is offered.

McMillan’s devastating acts haunt North Carolina’s Tuscaroras and UNCP has not amended their statue with a plaque for clarifications to bring about reparations.

Just this week, the North Carolina Tuscarora history was highlighted in the North Carolina Arrowheads & Artifacts Facebook page when a member was disgusted by McMillan’s act of digging up grave mounds.


 

North Carolina Tuscaroras have been documented as the indigenous people in Robeson County, North Carolina by Emeritus Duke History Professor Dr. Peter H. Wood and others.

Wood and his associates gathered genealogical evidence that there are approximately 4,000 North Carolina Tuscaroras. The evidence is held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Special Collections Department (UNCSCD).

UNCSCD also holds a work with 75 scholarly references and shares some of Wood’s new evidence along with other newly released evidence, “The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina's Tuscaroras.”

There is a map in “The Exsanguination of the Second Society” indicating Tuscarora territories and the entire Hamilton McMillan saga is revealed along with rare facts about the exciting 1972 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) invasion.

Both Wood’s report and the scholarly fiction may be read at no cost within UNCSCD’s building.


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