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Lumbee
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English
Etymology
en. Said to be first attested in reference to the tribe in 1914. Supposed by some to be of en sio - origin. Thought by others to have been coined by Turkey Tayac (1895-1978, the twenty-seventh hereditary chief of the Piscataway) as a combination of en Lumber a river that flows through the tribe's lands and en psy bee bend.Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation
Noun
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A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.
Translations
member of the tribe
Proper noun
The dialect (of English) spoken by the Lumbee people.
Translations
the language
References