Jesse E. Oxendine Papers, 1860s-2015

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Jesse E. Oxendine Papers, 1860s-2015

1860s-2015

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/05779/

The Jesse E. Oxendine Papers, 1860s-2015, consist of letters, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials of Jesse E. Oxendine (1926-2017), a Lumbee Indian from Pembroke, N.C. Letters, 1944-1954, were written by family and friends from Pembroke, Charlotte, Detroit, and Richmond, chiefly during Oxendine's World War II military service. Other topics include boy scout troop 27 in Pembroke; the history of the 82nd Airborne, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, including their participation in the liberation of Wobbelin concentration camp near Ludwigslust, Germany; Holocaust education; Cherokee Indian Normal School and Pembroke State University; Pembroke local history during the 1940s; Civil War and Reconstruction era recipes and home concoctions; the W. M. Lowry General Merchandise Store; and a 1958 incident in which Lumbee Indians expelled the Ku Klux Klan from Maxton, N.C.

10.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1200 items)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 11656643

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina

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The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is a state-recognized tribe in North Carolina numbering approximately 55,000 enrolled members, most of them living primarily in Robeson, Hoke, Cumberland and Scotland counties. The Lumbee Tribe is the largest state tribe in North Carolina, the largest state tribe east of the Mississippi River, and the ninth largest non-federally recognized tribe in the United States. The Lumbee take their name from the Lumber River which winds through Robeson County. Pembroke, ...

Oxendine, Jesse E., 1926-2017

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Jesse Edward Oxendine, born in Pembroke, N.C., on July 20, 1926, died February 10, 2017. Oxendine grew up in Pembroke, N.C. and was a long-time resident of Charlotte, N.C. A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, he was the first licensed Native American pharmacist in North Carolina. As a youth, Oxendine was active in scouting. He graduated from Pembroke High School in 1944 and was drafted into the military the same year. A member of the 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Glider Infantry, h...

Cherokee Indian Normal School (Pembroke, N.C.)

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The University of North Carolina at Pembroke was established on 7 Mar. 1887 as Croatan Normal School by the General Assembly at the request of the Lumbee Indians and other Native Americans in the state. Its purpose was to train Native American public school teachers. The school enrolled 15 students in the first year. In 1911 the legislature renamed the school the Indian Normal School of Robeson County, then changed it in 1913 to the Cherokee Indian Normal School of Robeson County. This name rema...