Adaptation, Survival, Gratitude: a Lumbee Thanksgiving Story (Gravy Ep. 1)
An Indian story for Thanksgiving... but one that involves cornbread, pork-- and Jim Crow.
Gravy · Southern Foodways Alliance
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Show Notes
For Thanksgiving, a Native American story… but not the one you’re imagining. No Pilgrims here. For the Lumbee Indians in North Carolina, the holiday meal involves cornbread, collards and a whole lot of pork. The Lumbee food story is a portal to a hybrid Southern-Native history that’s rarely glimpsed outside the tribe. Through Lumbee foods, we get to know this tribe in Robeson County, its persistence through colonialism, poverty, and Jim Crow era of tri-racial segregation. And we get to taste the stereotype-shattering reality of Indian foodways.
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