About this Event
916 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996
"Indigenous Oral History in the U.S. South: Truths and Lies My Family Told Me"
Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, Emory University
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina uses generations-old methods of speaking, singing and enacting their history, in addition to the written word. This talk will explore the gathering and sharing of oral history among the Lumbee community.
Malinda Maynor Lowery is a historian and documentary film producer who is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. In July 2021 she joined Emory University as the Cahoon Family Professor of American History, after spending 12 years at UNC-Chapel Hill and 4 years at Harvard University. Her second book, The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle, was published by UNC Press in 2018. The book is a survey of Lumbee history from the eighteenth century to the present, written for a general audience. Her first book, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation (UNC Press, 2010). It won several awards, including Best First Book of 2010 in Native American and Indigenous Studies.