"Following the Pines: Lumbee Mobility and Indian Identity in the Deep South" with Jessica Locklear

The sixth 2024-2025 Indigenous Learning Forum will take place February 20, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. ET on Zoom. This talk will be given in English with Spanish translation.  

This event is open to all but registration is required.

Jessica Locklear is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Emory University and an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Jessica's research focuses on migrations carried out by members and ancestors of the present-day Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina throughout the twentieth century. Jessica's dissertation project demonstrates that Lumbee people have intergenerational histories of utilizing mobility to adapt to ever-changing historical circumstances while maintaining distinct Indigenous identities. 

Following the Pines: Lumbee Mobility and Indian Identity in the Deep South

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Lumbee Indians left their homelands in southeastern North Carolina in large numbers in search of economic opportunities for survival further south. In this presentation, Locklear will discuss the ways Lumbee people were forced to reckon with and make sense of their own identities within the frameworks of race held by those they interacted with in these new places.