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From Robeson County, NC, to Bulloch County, GA, Lumbees were always proud of their ‘Indianness’
Tharp talks to Historical Society about group that left cemetery at Adabelle
Tharp - Lumbees
Speaking to the Bulloch County Historical Society, Dr. Brent Tharp summarizes the history of the Lumbee people, then known as Croatan Indians, who formed a community at Adabelle in Bulloch County, circa 1890-1920, before the families here returned to the tribe's historical home area in and around Robeson County, North Carolina. (AL HACKLE/staff)
The Lumbee people, many of them residents of Robeson County, North Carolina, but some of whom made their way to Bulloch County, Georgia, more than a century ago, have always proudly maintained their American Indian identity, Brent Tharp, Ph.D., noted in his most recent presentation for the Bulloch County Historical Society.
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