#lumbee

[afloweroutofstone]

There's a lot to be said about how many Native tribes, often lacking in the economic opportunities available in many non-tribal areas, have turned their economic development models towards providing services that are forbidden to provide outside of tribal land. The 1987 California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians ruling acknowledged the right of tribes to operate gambling facilities regardless of state regulations, and the Obama-era loosening of weed regulations made it easier for them to sell marijuana with less concern for non-tribal laws.

Although these policy developments were not something that most tribes actively sought out, they eventually realized that these policies gave tribal lands a monopoly on certain goods and services that people were unable to acquire elsewhere. Perhaps for the first time ever, government decisions had given tribal economies an advantage over the non-tribal economies surrounding them. This led many tribes to lean hard into their newfound policy-based comparative advantage, building up their local economies around non-Native tourism in a way that sits awkwardly with many Native activists' desire for economic sovereignty.

Tribes with well-managed tribal governments have been able to use this arrangement to great advantage. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (who this post is really about, simply because I know a lot about them) not only uses the money generated by their casino resort to fund social services, they also distribute some of the casino's earnings as cash dividends to Cherokee residents, effectively funding a basic income for the tribe with the money lost by gamblers (who are, disproportionately, white outsiders). After centuries of being robbed by surrounding white communities, there's something of a perversely poetic justice to this (even if those losing the most money at the casino are not necessarily the same segments of the white population who gained the most from Cherokee dispossession).

But it's not all good news. This arrangement also has some concerning side effects on the political economy of Native tribes. The EBCI Cherokee tribe have long opposed federal recognition of the Lumbee, another group in North Carolina who are the largest Native tribe in the US that is unrecognized by the federal government. One of the reasons that the Cherokee have turned their backs on the Lumbee's quest for recognition is because it would threaten their monopoly on gambling in North Carolina. If the Lumbee were treated as a proper tribe, they could open up their own casino, threatening the monopoly profits of the Cherokee casino. Thus, another use of the Cherokee's casino funds has been to actively lobby against another Native tribe.

The EBCI Cherokee's economic reliance on their casino has damaged any prospect of inter-tribal Native solidarity in North Carolina. From the Cherokee's perspective, they have been placed in a situation where the desires of other tribes come at the direct expense of their own tribes' desires. The tension between these two is not a natural phenomenon, but rather the product of a policy framework which leaves little choice for tribal economic development outside of cutthroat monopoly preservation. If solidarity is to live, the casino-first model must die. The question is: what replaces it?

[trivia-polls-daily]

No cheating, please! Answer the trivia question to the best of your ability, then check below the cut! Please do not give away answers in comments or tags!

Answer below:

The Lumbee people live primarily in Southeastern North Carolina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbee

[renegadeurbanmediasource]

When u stand up for yourself the bullshit STOPS!

[littlefeather-wolf]

THE NATIVE AMERICANS "LUMBEE" RAN THE KKK OUT OF THEIR COMMUNITY ✊🏼✨✊🏼

Cole and his Klansmen widely advertised their event, driving throughout the county in a truck outfitted with a loudspeaker to broadcast their plans. The announcements infuriated the Lumbee community and some decided to try to disrupt the meeting. Fearing violence, local law enforcement officials pleaded with Cole to suspend his plans, but he refused. On January 18, 1958, Cole and about 50 Klansmen, most of whom were followers of his from South Carolina, gathered in a leased cornfield near Hayes Pond, a place adjacent to the town of Maxton. Several hundred Lumbees, many armed, arrived and encircled the group and jeered at them. After an altercation in which the single light in the field was destroyed, the Lumbees began firing their weapons and most of the Klansmen fled. Cole hid in a swamp while the Lumbees seized Klan regalia and carried them to Pembroke to celebrate. Police restored order on the field and arrested one Klansman.

Afterwards, Cole and the arrested Klansman were indicted and convicted for inciting a riot. The event was widely covered in the local and national press, which blamed the Klan for the disorder and praised the Lumbees for their actions. Cole never organized another public rally in Robeson County after the incident. In 2011 the Lumbee Tribal Council declared January 18 a "Tribal Day of Historical Recognition".

[uni-meadows]

A bit late, but I hope you had a safe and joyous Yule. May your days only get brighter from here 🌟❄️

[ikarwawa]

I am Southern Tuscarora, I am increasingly frustrated with Lumbee presence.

I know discussions about Lumbee are probably done to death but I really wanted to insert my perspective as a descendant of one of the tribes the Lumbee claim to be an admixture of:

The Lumbee actively erased us and our culture over the years. The reason they cannot be federally recognized is the same reason they are state recognized—in claiming to be the descendants of my, and many other NC tribes, they signed an agreement with the NC government stating they would be the only valid Indians of Robeson County and would in exchange for preventing us from being recognized, they could not receive federal recognition and benefits.

It's painful to attend indigenous events in my state knowing I'm going to be surrounded by the very people helping kill my culture. They are NOT related to us—they cannot trace lineages back to us, they are not related to us according to DNA tests they've taken.

My tribe's langauge was just officially declared extinct recently and it just furthers my anger towards the Lumbee.

Their recognition as a tribe at all feels more and more like some kind of psyop every day.

And when you call them out on being culture vultures, on erasing cultures, on stealing land and resources—they will whine and cry that that only reason we don't claim them is because 90% of them are mixed Black.

Like, I don't believe in blood quantum but I also don't like a group of people with >2% OVERALL native DNA claiming to be my tribe when we're not related. My culture is DYING and they're complaining because the harm they did to us is no longer beneficial anymore.

The Lumbee have no place in indigenous spaces or having a voice on indigenous matters.

[honeyfrybread]

a poem that i wrote about a little gator who moved

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

@shadeslayer

an appalachian environmental magazine i follow is calling for writing submissions from specifically indigenous people in southern appalachia and the broader southeast. the theme is indigineity, but the magazine covers ecology and climate change. there is no fee for submission. i am not indigenous, but i frequently see indigenous people sharing interesting perspectives regarding environmental science here on tumblr, so I thought i would share the link here.

[wesleytyler]

[paulpingminho]

[thefullbellydiaries]

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[wiisagi-maiingan]

In the aftermath of the fall of cities, communities and nations throughout North America developed their own unique egalitarian structures as they also shared ideas and developed some common values. One of the most broadly shared values was the philosophy of reciprocity, an ideal of sharing and balance that undergirded economics, politics, and religion across much of the continent. Lumbee legal scholar Robert A. Williams Jr. explains that people "lived in a complex web of connective, reciprocrating relationships. Connection to others improved the chances of overcoming some calamity or disaster that might befall the individual or group. Peaceful relations with other tribes could provide inestimable benefits: trade and subsistence goods that were unavailable or in short supply in the territory, military alliances that extended power and influence, and protection from feared enemies." Historian Daniel K. Richter calls this system "a sort of upside-down capitalism, in which the aim was not to accumulate goods, but to be in a position to provide them to others."

— Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen Duval

[ed-recoverry]

Shoutout to all Native American LGBTQ+ folks.

It should be well noted hundreds of thousands of Native American tribes exist, much more long lost to time. This post includes the most populated as of now, but know this applies to all.

Also some of these tribes cross over to Mexico and Canada!

Shoutout to all Cherokee LGBTQ+ folks.

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Take pride in it all. Your culture, your identity, it’s all so beautiful. Celebrate where you are from and who you are. It makes you you, and that is something to be proud of.

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[tigwalen]

Also when I've posted about TAAF I've had issues brought up about sourcing them because they take issue with the Lumbee, so exactly what source can I use?

i'm just as wary of pretendians, but that article linked about professor driskill faking being 2s is by a conservative and anti-LGBT publication 😩 they refer to driskill solely as 'he' throughout their article for reasons i think are obvious. there are sources that are not explicitly anti-trans, such as https : // tribalallianceagainstfrauds . org /%22qwo-li%22-driskill (without spaces), which is also like a native source and not just some anti-lib gossip magazine. something tells me that The Publica probably doesn't really give a shit about indigenous people as much as they want excuses to attack liberal institutions u know

Fair. Someone pointed this out in the replies too and ugam responded.

Also the article is specifically abt them stepping down, not just a general thing about them like the TAAF link

[yourdailyqueer]

Stacy Layne Matthews (Stacy Jones)

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 19 July 1984

Ethnicity: Native American (Lumbee)

Occupation: Drag artist, reality star