North Carolina Conversations Summer 2009 Issue
The rare cover photo of North Carolina Conversations Summer 2009 issue was taken circa 1900-25. It shows a celebratory "school-breakin'" at the end of the academic year for Lumbee children and teachers at an unidentified all-Indian school in Robeson County, NC. In the new issue of North Carolina Conversations, Olivia Oxendine, Assistant Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and Director of the Robeson County Elder Teachers Project, describes how all-Indian schoolhouses, now "fading images," once "knitted a seamless way of life across community, church, and family." The new issue of North Carolina Conversations contains, among other offerings, the 2008 Annual Report to the People; the 2008 Caldwell Lecture in the Humanities, special news about New Harmonies: Celebrating Roots Music, to tour North Carolina in 2010; and poems from Asheville Wordfest 2009.
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