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 ===== Robeson County, North Carolina ===== ===== Robeson County, North Carolina =====
  
-{{url%3Ehttps://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d876594.9533912718!2d-79.20156891108797!3d34.55122192231116!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89aade7c8dd8c4fd%3A0x920b8682edef8683!2sLumberton%2C%20NC%2C%20USA!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1742252227126!5m2!1sen!2sau%20noscroll%20noborder%20alignment%20fullscreen| A Google Maps image centered on North Carolina, United States, with a placemark on Lumberton, the largest town in Robeson County, inland and near the southern border of the state.}}+{{url>https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d876594.9533912718!2d-79.20156891108797!3d34.55122192231116!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89aade7c8dd8c4fd%3A0x920b8682edef8683!2sLumberton%2C%20NC%2C%20USA!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1742252227126!5m2!1sen!2sau%20noscroll%20noborder%20alignment%20fullscreen| A Google Maps image centered on North Carolina, United States, with a placemark on Lumberton, the largest town in Robeson County, inland and near the southern border of the state.}} 
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 +Figure 1. A Google Maps image centered on North Carolina, United States, with a placemark on Lumberton, the largest town in Robeson County, inland and near the southern border of the state. 
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 ===== A “mixt Crew,” “no Indians” ===== ===== A “mixt Crew,” “no Indians” =====
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 Karen Blu discusses some of the positions that physical anthropologists have offered to the state to help them: Karen Blu discusses some of the positions that physical anthropologists have offered to the state to help them:
  
-> One theory has its roots in anthropologist James Mooney’s Siouan Tribes of the East (1894), which was apparently a basis on which J. R. Swanton, another anthropologist, constructed his argument concerning the ‘‘Probable Identity of the ‘Croatan’ Indians’’ (U.S. Senate Reports 1934:3—6). Swanton maintained that the Indian ancestors of the ‘“‘Croatans’’ probably came from a number of Siouan speaking groups in North and South Caroiina, such as the Cheraw, Keyauwee, Eno, Shakori, Waccamaw, and Cape Fear. He further notes the possibility that ‘‘a few families or small groups of Algonquian or Iroguian [Iroquoian] connection may have cast their lot with this body of people, but contributions from such sources must have been relatively insignificant’? (U.S. Senate Reports 1934:6). (Blu 1980, 41)+> One theory has its roots in anthropologist James Mooney’s Siouan Tribes of the East (1894), which was apparently a basis on which J. R. Swanton, another anthropologist, constructed his argument concerning the "Probable Identity of the 'Croatan' Indians" (U.S. Senate Reports 1934:3–6). Swanton maintained that the Indian ancestors of the ‘“‘Croatans’’ probably came from a number of Siouan speaking groups in North and South Carolina, such as the Cheraw, Keyauwee, Eno, Shakori, Waccamaw, and Cape Fear. He further notes the possibility that "a few families or small groups of Algonquian or Iroguian [Iroquoian] connection may have cast their lot with this body of people, but contributions from such sources must have been relatively insignificant" (U.S. Senate Reports 1934:6). (Blu 1980, 41) 
  
   * For the experts, Lumbee people are known as “tri-racial isolates,” and that makes them like many other similar Creole communities. So, the government concludes, they can’t really be a Native American nation like other Native American nations.   * For the experts, Lumbee people are known as “tri-racial isolates,” and that makes them like many other similar Creole communities. So, the government concludes, they can’t really be a Native American nation like other Native American nations.
   * If Lumbee is an endonym, then it competes with the many names, **exonyms**, that outsiders call Lumbee people: Scuffletown, mulattos, free people of color, etc.   * If Lumbee is an endonym, then it competes with the many names, **exonyms**, that outsiders call Lumbee people: Scuffletown, mulattos, free people of color, etc.
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 ===== “Before it is too late” ===== ===== “Before it is too late” =====
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 Risley and Hutton’s censuses count and sort people into categories that they designed Risley and Hutton’s censuses count and sort people into categories that they designed
  
-  * Their “anthropology” is purely an [[:etic]] perspective, with no attention to the emic perspective.+  * Their “anthropology” is purely an [[:emic_and_etic|etic]] perspective, with no attention to the emic perspective.
   * They know people by exonyms but pay little attention to peoples’ endonyms.   * They know people by exonyms but pay little attention to peoples’ endonyms.
  
 ===== Thinking like a census taker ===== ===== Thinking like a census taker =====
  
-Anthropology today does not have any vestige of racial theories or evolutionary types. It instead frames difference in a lens of [[:cultural relativism]].+Anthropology today does not have any vestige of racial theories or evolutionary types. It instead frames difference in a lens of [[:ethnocentrism and cultural relativism|cultural relativism]].
  
 Anthropology learns from the ground up, like a child being taught by a parent. But every anthropologist will always filter what they observe through categories they already possess. Everyone does that. Anthropology learns from the ground up, like a child being taught by a parent. But every anthropologist will always filter what they observe through categories they already possess. Everyone does that.
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