DISPOSED TO FIGHT TO THEIR DEATH Independence
October in Lumbee territory is full of golden light. Typically the weather is cool, but one can still pick up pecans from the yard without wearing heavy layers. In October 1773, while women and children harvested fall vegetables and men hunted—turkey or deer if lucky, squirrels, quail, or rabbits—fa...
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| Published in | The Lumbee Indians p. 42 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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United States
The University of North Carolina Press
10.09.2018
University of North Carolina Press |
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| Summary: | October in Lumbee territory is full of golden light. Typically the weather is cool, but one can still pick up pecans from the yard without wearing heavy layers. In October 1773, while women and children harvested fall vegetables and men hunted—turkey or deer if lucky, squirrels, quail, or rabbits—far away in Boston the Sons of Liberty planned a riot. Two months later they enacted it, dressed up as Indians to relieve merchants of their tea in Boston Harbor. But actual Indians, the Lumbees, had already planned or carried out a violent action at Drowning Creek. That October, the |
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| ISBN: | 9781469646374 1469646374 |