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Indians of North Carolina : Letter From the Secretary of the Interior by Orlando M. McPherson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Indians of North Carolina : Letter From the Secretary of the Interior about?
In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as "Cherokees," a designation that went largely unnoticed by the Federal Government. When the same Indians petitioned for Federal recognition and assistance in 1915, the Senate tasked the Office of Indian Affairs to report on the "tribal rights and conditions" of those Robeson County Indians. Special Indian Agent Orlando McPherson, a Midwesterner who was in the final stages of a long career as a civil servant, was commissioned to investigate. The resulting federal report is essentially literature review in the guise of fact-finding. It relies heavily on Robeson county legislator Hamilton McMillan's musings on the relationship between Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony and the Indians around Robeson County. The report reaches many erroneous conclusions, in part because it was based in an anthropological framework of white supremacy, segregation-era politics, and assumptions about racial "purity." In fact, later researchers would establish that the Lumbees, as Malinda Lowery writes, "are survivors from the dozens of tribes in that territory who established homes with the Native people, as well as free Euro
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- Author
- Orlando M. McPherson
- Publisher
- Project Muse, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781469641768
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities