#lumbee — Public Fediverse posts
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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Lumbee Pride Drives UH Coach Kelvin Sampson’s Success – Houston Public Media https://www.rawchili.com/nba/189178/ #Basketball #CollegeBasketball #FinalFour #HoustonCougars #HoustonCougarsMen'sBasketballTeam #HoustonMatters #indigenous #KelvinSampson #Lumbee #NativeAmerican #ncaa #NCAABasketball #ncaab #News
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“The Master of Life has appointed this place for us to light our fires, and here we shall remain.” -Tecumseh
This will be my answer when people ask why I am not running away.
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“The Master of Life has appointed this place for us to light our fires, and here we shall remain.” -Tecumseh
This will be my answer when people ask why I am not running away.
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“The Master of Life has appointed this place for us to light our fires, and here we shall remain.” -Tecumseh
This will be my answer when people ask why I am not running away.
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“The Master of Life has appointed this place for us to light our fires, and here we shall remain.” -Tecumseh
This will be my answer when people ask why I am not running away.
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“The Master of Life has appointed this place for us to light our fires, and here we shall remain.” -Tecumseh
This will be my answer when people ask why I am not running away.
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#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
#opera -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
#opera -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
#opera -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
#opera -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
#opera -
"Today’s guest is Environmental scientist #RyanEEmanuel, a member of the #Lumbee Nation and he provides listeners some highlights from his new book, #OnTheSwamp: Fighting for #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice (UNC Press, 2024). On the Swamp includes shared stories from #NorthCarolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical #environment|al changes."
https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/on-the-swamp-fighting-for-indigenous-environmental-justice
#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #ecoactivism #pipelines #wetlands #books -
"Today’s guest is Environmental scientist #RyanEEmanuel, a member of the #Lumbee Nation and he provides listeners some highlights from his new book, #OnTheSwamp: Fighting for #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice (UNC Press, 2024). On the Swamp includes shared stories from #NorthCarolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical #environment|al changes."
https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/on-the-swamp-fighting-for-indigenous-environmental-justice
#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #ecoactivism #pipelines #wetlands #books -
"Today’s guest is Environmental scientist #RyanEEmanuel, a member of the #Lumbee Nation and he provides listeners some highlights from his new book, #OnTheSwamp: Fighting for #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice (UNC Press, 2024). On the Swamp includes shared stories from #NorthCarolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical #environment|al changes."
https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/on-the-swamp-fighting-for-indigenous-environmental-justice
#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #ecoactivism #pipelines #wetlands #books -
"Today’s guest is Environmental scientist #RyanEEmanuel, a member of the #Lumbee Nation and he provides listeners some highlights from his new book, #OnTheSwamp: Fighting for #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice (UNC Press, 2024). On the Swamp includes shared stories from #NorthCarolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical #environment|al changes."
https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/on-the-swamp-fighting-for-indigenous-environmental-justice
#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #ecoactivism #pipelines #wetlands #books -
"Today’s guest is Environmental scientist #RyanEEmanuel, a member of the #Lumbee Nation and he provides listeners some highlights from his new book, #OnTheSwamp: Fighting for #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice (UNC Press, 2024). On the Swamp includes shared stories from #NorthCarolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical #environment|al changes."
https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/on-the-swamp-fighting-for-indigenous-environmental-justice
#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #ecoactivism #pipelines #wetlands #books
