Lumbee Vocabulary

Vocabulary segment from the documentary Indian By Birth: The Lumbee Dialect by NCLLP films.
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[MariposaMorena1908]

Indians come in all shades due to admixture. There are white and black-looking mixed bloods in other tribes but it doesn't seem to be a problem. The Lumbee aren't Indians because they don't "look" like Indians? If you google Kitty Cloud Taylor, an Indian woman married to a Black man, you will see a picture of their child who looks Black. Where does your line of thinking come from? Indians or Europeans? Our focus needs to be on the unity of all people because we are all related.

[ugh91793]

We don't claim what we're not. Some of us have courser hair, darker skin; but does that make us any less Native American? There are tan Whites, but we don't call you Hispanic, do we? All it is is ignorance. It's sad.

[KushaDwipa]

@Cre8iveN8ive - all Native Americans are mixed today. These people are no more mixed than Cherokee who were described by Europeans as a very tall "dark copper brown complexioned" people in early books of the 1700s and before. Obviously those people are for the most part exterminated and there is very little of that blood in the modern Cherokee who were largely the descendants of white Americans.

[Lockler15]

@ whoevertalkinshitaboutourtribe­.. Shutup please and worry about your race. And why the fuck you watch this vedio eney damn ways if your going to talk shit YOU DONT KNOW because your a fuckin HATER paaa! And you dont know us then stfu.. if you know us then you love us nomatter what race. .. See the the fucking promble yall want to watch this vedios and think you know shit BUT you DONT .. All yall doin is making yourself look stupid! ...KEKE pa daddy

[TheKimTwister]

ok why is everyone makin fun of the lumbee i have been to robeson county many times and i feel welcomed as i come to robeson such a  beautiful country of nc

[MariposaMorena1908]

Ms Thunder,....just shaking my head...

[MariposaMorena1908]

Hollywood Kendrick, I don't recall having said or indicated that there were no "brown" Lums. I have seen and met some at powwows. I have been to Lumberton and seen all types. Does anyone know of a Lumbee DNA project in existence to solidify the Indianess of the Lumbee once and for all?

[MariposaMorena1908]

Erica, I am saying the same thing that you are, minus the profanity. It is my belief that people don't think the Lumbee are Indians because of how they look although I hear nothing about some of the enrolled OK Cherokee not being Indian if they don't look it. I am not hating on OK Cherokee though. There is a prejudice that some folks have - all people who claim Indian should look like Indians out West. I disagree with that. Did you mean your comment for the Coushatta lady?

[erickareid]

@MariposaMorena1908 iF YOU DONT THINK THAT WE "LOOK" LIKE INDIANS THEN STAY OFF OUR SITE AND KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF OR YOUR MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME TO ROBESON COUNTY AND TELL US THAT. WE WELCOME YOU.

[Cre8iveN8ive]

@ugh91793 It doesn't make you less Native American, but it is hateful not to acknowledge a part of your heritage if you acknowledge another. You said that like coarse hair is common among Natives, and your tone sounds like you running circles around saying there's anything else to the blood of a Lumbee (like what Melungeons do). Newsflash: Lumbees are a TRI-racial group. That=Indian, white(English, Scottish, or German) and BLACK. There, I said it. See, it's not such a scary word after all!...

[byrd300005]

hey therd pa your momucking that ellick imaeses going to pop u in your head wid tids juvember if u dont fix it paaa!! run run!!! her cum tedm white folk wid the lighting stick going to shot me in de ass

[HollywoodKendrick]

You're always gonna have that redneck who doesn't wanna be white, still throwing the word "nigger" around..wearing a rebel flag....saying he's native american. Don't let that bs fool you. Nobody wants genocidal ancestors. That's life.