Lumbee

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English

Etymology

Uncertain. Said to be first attested in reference to the tribe in 1914. Supposed by some to be of Siouan origin. Thought by others to have been coined by Turkey Tayac as a combination of Lumber (“a river that flows through the tribe's lands”) and Piscataway bee (“bend”).[1]

Noun

Lumbee (plural Lumbees or Lumbee)

  1. A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.

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Proper noun

Lumbee

  1. The dialect (of English) spoken by the Lumbee people.

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References

  1. ^ Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

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