Monthly Archives: December 2013

Indian by Birth: The Lumbee Dialect

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Roberta Estes

In the 1880s, Hamilton McMillan claimed that the Lumbee descended from Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony, abandoned on Roanoke Island in 1587. One of the pieces of evidence to support that allegation is that the language of the Lumbee held … Continue reading →

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Alfred Wilkins, The Old Indian

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Roberta Estes

One of our subscribers, John, send me some family information about Alfred Wilkins. As it turns out, this family is quite interesting. These first few paragraphs were provided in the exchange. A manuscript entitled “Walking Upright: The Coharie People of … Continue reading →