INDIAN BY BIRTH - THE LUMBEE DIALECT (full movie) 

I agree, it does! So many of us are poor but get this, we live in the biggest county in NC. Robeson County has the biggest population of Lums, but is also the poorest county!

@Magic Dreaa cool love to understand more about your culture

@Magic Dreaa no I don’t. I have Facebook only

Is one of those brothers you're talking about is the guy in the white t shirt and black Yankees hat?

What are their names?

@ prettynikki73 • You Have African Blood In Your Veins Don't Deny Your African Side 🙏

I'm from Maryland but, my family is from Robenson County as well. I also have some Lumbee blood/ancestry

Probably Tuscarora. They’re the only tribe that does meetings around Robeson county. Maxton really.

Yea but black americams are mix heritage ​@mamadoudiabira1023

God bless you 🙏🏼

And you made it yourself. Those things made us creative.

The Lumbee Indians were federal recognized by the federal government in the 1950s; however, without federal benefits because there isn’t a treaty/contract between Lumbees and federal government. Federal government benefits to Lumbee’s has nothing to language. The Lumbee English is very similar to Scottish dialect.

@@benchavis1624 First time I've ever heard that. It was always my understanding that the state recognized them as a tribe, but that the federal government won't recognize them because a tribe has to have a documented 200 year history prior to the time they request it. They will recognize the individual as an authentic Indian and give them the individual rights that come with it, i.e. such as come with affirmative action programs, etc. I was of the idea that the state of NC recognizes them as a tribe and grants any considerations that come with that. I have also understood that other long recognized tribes such as the Cherokee here in the NC have long opposed the federal recognition because they perhaps think such a thing might would diminish their federal grants and other such considerations that come with the recognition. And you have to know that many Indians have both white and black genes because of the intermingling the Lumbees have long engaged in. My sister-in-law god rest her soul was a Lumbee from Laurinburg and despite most of her family looked even whiter than me with very blonde hair and blue eyes. Some Indians looked almost black because of the black genes in their DNA. I'm not saying you are incorrect about federal recognition. It may have changed from what I understood and I never came across that information. I'm not suggesting the Lumbees aren't genuine Indians but have long believed that many of them are an admixture of many races such as my deceased sister-in-law's family though. Some appear almost totally Indian, some almost totally black, and many, very many you'd think were white unless you inquire and discover they are Indians. Heather Locklear for instance is half Lumbee Indian but looks almost totally white, but I know her father was an academic who if memory serves me hailed from Pembroke, NC which was very near where I grew up and who married a white woman after he went to work in California as an academic. I grew up around many Lumbee's in my youth on a farm. They were mostly nice hardworking people who would brook no insult from anyone and I must say produced very attractive females as was my sister-in-law.

@@roymerritt6992 Federal recognition does not require 200 years of historical documentation. The main requirement is a treaty with a tribe. Unfortunately most of your information is inaccurate regarding federal recognition. I agree with the Cherokees and other tribes. Lumbee Indians don’t have a treaty/contract with federal government. A fact! Heather Locklear’s father worked at UCLA as a school administrator. He isn’t from Pembroke. I met the family members when I worked at the University of California Berkeley in 1990. All people in the world are mixed. A mathematical fact.

@@benchavis1624 I detect a note of hostility in your responses. Are you suggesting I'm intentionally lying about what I understood? Are you implying I somehow have animus toward Lumbee Indians because if you do you are inaccurate considering I had many friends among Lumbee Indians while growing up and worked in the fields beside them. I may be wrong about Heather Locklear's father being from Pembroke, and as I noted that he was if memory serves me, which might have failed since I'm in my seventh decade of life. And I never asserted my thoughts surrounding federal recognition are definitely factual. That was simply something over the years I came to think was accurate. But of course you don't provide any factual information or evidence that would convince me that what you are asserting yourself is totally accurate either. You are a native Indian and may be correct, but being someone who requires definitive evidence I remain cynical of your claim and especially because of what I define has a hostile tone. A person can make any claim they want but without providing verifiable evidence from a reliable source that I can research and may convince me otherwise I will remain cynical. You know I used to live in Wilmington where there is a major movie studio and the place where many movies are made. You know who I met since they made many movies downtown where I worked at the main post office well non other than Vanessa Redgrave, Danny Aiello, Bill Nunn, Issac Hayes, Bernie Casey, etc. So therefore I'm not the least impressed that you may know the Locklear's.

They don't have a native language.

@@BronzeSista no disrespect but these are $5 Indians I mean some of us had ancestors in the elders that extremely conscious and remembered exactly who they were and what lies were told to them and all of the other atrocities that were committed but this is interesting that I see Asiatic Polynesian people claiming their indigenous to Turtle Island

@@BronzeSista you are exactly right! They aren't a "tribe", they are an amalgamation of different groups.

@@BronzeSista Yes we do...

@@romantikwater4285 "Asiatic" people ARE the Natives of Turtle Island 🙄

there's no such thing as a "full blooded Lumbee."

@@capefearcapt4679 I think he meant full blooded as in both parents of his grandfathers were Lumbee. No need to disregard someone else’s ancestry

@@justme2121, the ancestry of the Lumbee is primarily African and Northern European not NA. It's a fascinating history of which we should all be proud, but it is way past time to end the big lie.

@@capefearcapt4679 the big lie? That lumbees are not native Americans? Well if they were here before whites came, they would be native.

My grandfather also grew up there and moved there to work at the GM plant!!! Locklear!?

I think a lot of the other southern states were like that back in the day. Now you ain’t got to worry about it so many people done moved to North Carolina from elsewhere and have just about erased the North Carolina accent

Hollywood, Northern Folks and lots of others have mocked southern dialects as the speech of stupid, uneducated people. That bled over to lots of people in the South believing it to be so and trying to change it. Take Senator John Neely Kennedy from Louisiana who is a very well educated (Oxford) and smart individual but because of his southern accent and the stereotype associated with it, some would see him as uneducated.

@@dannywearsthecrown567 I feel like the cities have lost it but it’s well and alive in rural to midsize NC. Especially eastern NC

@@redboy09100 I definitely agree, as much of a rarity as it is I meet Raleigh native who definitely have the Piedmont southern accent still in tact.

@@dannywearsthecrown567 correct. If you’re in Raleigh Durham or Cary then you can cancel hearing the southern accent lol. But if you travel throughout rural Piedmont or midsive cities it’s alive especially the 336 area

The "Lumbee" have no "Lumbee" language. They speak a regional dialect of English. A "Lumbee" Indian language never existed.

It's crazy. All the ones I knew married white people. I dated one and had to sneak to date him.

@@butterflylovenj7300 what ethnicity are you ? Just asking cuz u said u had to sneak

My family is from Mexico, but we’re >65% indigenous. We went to Cherokee on vacation and got the nastiest looks from the indigenous in the area. Never knew why.

​@angiemejiarodriguez7824 Omg are you Otomi? I have Otomi ancestry from Mexico.

@@angiemejiarodriguez7824because they’re very xenophobic against Mex

What's up Cousin! 😊 fellow moore, Pate here

Lol

i'm from the rural area of the Philippines and we moves to Pembroke. The first time I saw a collard i said to my Lumbee neighbor "that's one big cabbage!". he started laughing and he told me when you cook it "it ain't right if it don't shine in the light" (he meant fried). lol

I want to try it, might have to drive to Lumberton. But I need to find out who makes these sandwiches.

@@rafaeloviedo9473 hahahaha

@@BronzeSista thats the hard part. I just got lucky. Not sure but there might be some little hole in the wall place that makes them. Now you have me thinking so I'm gonna have to ask around.

Right Coast it’s near the coast... close enough to supply/calabash for it to sound eastern. Also, I think anyone east of Raleigh has a diff speech... at least I do

@@SassyUnicorn86 I'm from Wilmington, but have lived all over NC so I know what you mean. My accent is totally different than the Piedmont/mountains. I spent 5 years in Harkers Island, and I've never, ever heard any other community use the words mommuck, drime, or pronounce tide/time/way etc other than Lumbees. They must have some ancestry from the settlers on the OBX, and some of the dialect stuck around since they've been pretty isolated to Robeson county. There are just some things that are way too distinct to be a coincidence.

@@rightcoast7049 I have read a theory that said they were descendants of the Roanoke colonists, who mixed with Indians and disappeared inland.

@@serenissimarespublicavenet3945 That makes sense. There's just no way it's a coincidence. The settlers were Irish, and a lot of the Lumbees still have Irish last names. Plus the words they use. I think that kind of got swept under the rug when they were trying to be recognized as a Native tribe.

Ima vouch for that lived down east nc and sounds almost exact as cedar island

They are a very beautiful looking people along with their cultural pride 👍👍👍👍👍

How would someone learn more about the lumbee & thier way of life & traditions? Do lumbee in NC have powwows or ceremonies?

Hoke Co. Here as well. #Bullard

What is a Lumbee

@SHOOTING WIND A Lumbee is a mostly Biracial person parading as an Indian. Some of them are White. Some of them are Black but they are NOT Indians.

As a fellow Lumbee I grew up in Florida I can concur with you and say that I've had the same type of experiences growing up here with the way that I've talked because I always come home 4th of July Thanksgiving Christmas I grew up with my family in North Carolina even though I live here in Florida so the way that I talk has always been a point of interest for many of my friendships and relationships with people. But that "proper voice"is very true something that many of us have and when we come home it just feels good to talk like the way you know

I was just about to leave a super long comment about growing up in lumberton with most of my class being lumbee kids and watching the absolute torture they went through. On the first day of kindergarten we were separated.. lumbee on one side and yt on the other side of the room. This is such a horrible mess that those “others” have created. Fighting for identity.. nobody should have to do that. I’m not from pembroke but I’m from lumberton so I was never in the heart of it but I feel like all of my friends growing up made a huge impact in my life. It showed me the right and wrongs of everything. How to be a good person. And to support everyone and love everyone no matter what. I will celebrate the day that the lumbee tribe becomes federally recognized because I believe in my heart that it’ll happen. It won’t undo the years of abuse and trauma you and others have endured but hopefully it will close that chapter and show others the power of fighting for yourself and your family, and your identity as a whole. Sorry I went off on a whole rant there. I’m 32 now with children who have never lived in NC since we have moved but they know exactly who the Lumbee people are and will never show prejudice against another person for how they talk or how they look. I’m very sorry that happened to you. I hope for the sake of us all that people can learn kindness and be more open to things that are different from what they know. We will never make it without loving each other.

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Same

I'm a Blalock between lumberton and Dallas

Im also a descendant through Locklear

Cmon

@@iyanabellamy3170 what up cousin

We have copper colored skin

Relate to what you say. Am sick and tired of people mocking any southern accent. I am proud of mine. Though I am not of lumber descent but western Carolina English descent. I will no longer change my speech to suit someone else. Respect everyone's differences🕊

Shiiiiit... come on down to the coast and meet some people from Down East or the Outer Banks. The only way I know how to describe their accent is Olde English + southern. (Heeeyyy... I'm typing this while the guy starting talking about it.) EDIT; THAT'S EXACTLY HOW THEY SOUND!!! Lived here almost 25 years and still have trouble understanding sometimes.

Yea but are you lumbee tf Irish gotta do wit the video

Scotland County, North Carolina here. Neighbor and allie to the Lumbee people, and damn proud of how far this amazing tribe has come! God Bless the Lumbee Nation!!! YeeYee

​@@jadenroddey3792 imo likely sharing how different dialects/language correlate... My Mother was from England & i use to get taunted by children for saying skipping rope vs jumping rope at age 6😂 Personally, i like different cultures/foods/languages & dialects... 🙌🙏

The carolina accent is most definitely a unique one. I’m so proud to be from the Carolinas.

I agree with that. I live in Bladen but I went to college at UNCP and graduated in 95. I also worked for years in Robeson. I told my husband that I can pretty much tell what area people are from when they open their mouth and start talking!!!😊 I love the history

Wow.. I am also Lumbee descent by way of my grandfather from the Walker family! So amazing to find long lost family. ❤️

Taylor Renfroe nice to meet you cousin

I’m from Robco and grew up with Lumbees. My good friends and very good, hard working people. My people came from Ireland in the 1800s to the McDonald area and have always been friends with the Lumbee. When I was a kid, an older Lumbee told me they were of the Tuscarora and swore to me they integrated with the lost colony and saved the original settlers. CROTAN...They migrated from the Outer Banks, to the Cape Fear, to the Lumber River. That always felt right in my heart and explained, red head, blue eyed Native Americans.

@Babyhowdy233 my great grandmother is listed as Indian on the census.

@@TheTurner1000 yep!

@UCR3tFSl6jeZhIJ7S_kmubyQ Juanita Sampson?? That was my grandma's mother.... wow please contact me on Facebook @Michael Anthony McKellip

@UCR3tFSl6jeZhIJ7S_kmubyQ you know my aunt sandra then I'm guessing

My father was an Oxendine. What’s up cuz.

@@deetleskeet what's crackin dawg long time never seen. Would happily have you over to my house to smoke drink whatever suits ya. Hmu on Facebook

I'm an oxendine😊

Yeah, I'm Southern and my accent is about the same.

My accent could give a Northerner an aneurysm.

Is Wayne Newton a LUMBEE INDIAN his from VA he. Looks Native American

@@davidortega357 native american doesn't have a look

OMG - Why would they let Lumbee in any Native contest considering they are 0% Native?

@@strnglhld I have a Lumbee friend who took an AncestryDNA test and he actually did have 1 percent Native American North.But I heard like half of them have 0 percent and then some others have a little bit.

Because their not real indigenous American and they know that dna tests prove it

Because they are a fake tribe with a fake linage.

Because "AFRICAN" is not a singular culture, nationality, or language... they have nothing to do with the continent Africa...that whole story of folks coming from there was a white lie

Your ignorant

The bloodline ain't African... black Americans are indigenous to America... white people help steal the land, and gave them land reservations

@@AyeeeItsCam what white man taught you that? I know the school system teaches that bs... but i follow my family lineage and the history that my elders were taught, along with the record...just like your family, my family has oral history... we understand what the U.S. has done to this country. Better yet, science backs this claim. There is a reason our culture is global. I know where my family was and when they were forced to relocate. Why do you think they call it the "GREAT MIGRATION"... NOT IMMIGRATION... 🤣🤣🤣 his-story tells us that the Indian separations and wars... Ain't no Mongoliod built these pyramid mounds... I have a history of Indians that were Masons in my family... the favor whole is deep, and I got sources of you need to help you understand

I NO BLACK 😂😂😂😂 I'm Dominican lol!!!!!

We were named by the government because our tribes lived hid out on the "lumber river" that goes Robeson county"

don't you notice a difference between the ways the white, black, and lumbee residents of Robeson county speak?

They speak the same. It not language.

Yes! I'm from the 757 (Ptown-Norfolk), but my parents families are from Bladen and Roberson Co and Bertie. Very similar and regional.

@@KFC8922 Sorry I misspelled. The lady I knew was from Charleston and she would proudly let you know she was Geechie

The Gullah and the Lumbee are related

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I heard of a old, small community in the city of Baltimore.

@@Stanlayy-em4fk That's interesting. There had to be some contact between someone in my family to pick up a few Lumbee words. It makes me smile when I think about it. Thanks.

I grew up with the word mommuck. We were in Bladen County which is one county over. We'd go to the movies in Lumberton.

I had a friend who used a shortened version of this word. He would say " I just cleaned this so done come over here and muck it up

@@bordeauxhouse Is that your maiden name?

Thank you fingers crossed 🤞🏽

Sh'Anea Latrice hasn’t been fully passed

Hang in there I Pray it passes soon you ALL DESERVE IT....ITS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING....

Huge mistake. Lumbee are not indigenous at all, that’s why all the other tribes came out against it. They didn’t have to have any studies done tracing their ancestry like the other actual tribes.

Long time.feels good

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She was born at the turn of the century-ish… 1900 or so… Family name is Carter…

That is the most ridiculous claim I have ever heard! How can you confuse a native man, with a black man? They have nothing in common.

We can be little wild and crazy though 🤣😂🤣

These people aren't native.

My family is Nordic but we attend Powwow every year when all different tribes on the East coast meet on Rancocus where our community tribe lived originally. It a nature center most of the year. But at powwow you can meet all different Native American s see their garb, speak with the it's alot of fun ! We go on Columbus day.

@@blazefairchild465 Just don’t go to a Lumbee “pow wow”…. they’re not Native American

@@strnglhld Yes ,poor people they can’t be considered a tribe because their language wasn’t preserved. They are so mixed they spoke English. There is another tribe in the hills of NJ .They are a mixture or runaway slaves ,the natives who took them in and as the story goes became a hide out for anyone hiding from the law. They can’t get tribal status either.

On another video about these people they were saying that a disproportionate number of lum were drunks. Are you an alcoholic?

We might be related.

Don't feel robed it can't be on you it has to be in you it's rooted in your soul I'm from nc black and native so I feel you

Some of my family moved there in the 60's... my father lived there awhile w his sister. I have family there I've never met... feel like I got robbed off that too.. so I understand. But I also understand why they wanted to leave❤

No. Lumbees are mulattoes. Gullahs are not.

They sound more black with southern accent. The ones with the heavy accent. Then some sounds white just depends what they been around

@@shawnahall7246 King. Agree, but I have been around more who tried to sound like Southern whites.

Alf Smith luved a half mile from my grandparents Joseph Lester Jones house. Alf talked just like that guy who was speaking at 10:15 minute mark in this video.