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This article is a list of famous members and descendants of the Lumbee tribe.

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Dean Chavers, Ph. D., holds a doctorate degree from Stanford University and is Director of Catching the Dream, formerly called the Native American Scholarship Fund. He has written 20 books on Indian affairs and Indian education. His latest book is a two-volume work published by Mellen Press in June 2007, "Modern American Indian Leaders." He has also written the "National Indian Grant Directory" and "How to Write Winning Proposals."

  • Delano Cummings, the author of Moon Dash Warrior: The Story of an American Indian in Vietnam, a Marine from the Land of the Lumbee. His memoir is a poignant account of his tours of duty as a Marine in Vietnam.
  • Adolph L. Dial, a historian and advocate for American Indian rights who spent 30 years as a professor of American History and American Indian Studies at Pembroke State University, North Carolina, and served as a North Carolina state senator and spokesperson for full federal recognition of the Lumbee. Dial is the author of The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians and The Lumbee. Toward the end of his life, Dr. Dial was the recipient of the Henry Berry Lowry Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Lumbee community.
  • Arlinda Locklear, a veteran of Federal Indian law, having practiced in the field for twenty-five years. Locklear has represented tribes across the U.S. in federal and state courts on treaty claims to water and land, taxation disputes, reservation boundary issues and federal recognition of tribes. In the course of her career, she became the first Native American woman to argue a case, Solem v. Bartlett, to the Supreme Court. She successfully challenged the state of South Dakota's authority to prosecute a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe for on-reservation conduct. As a lawyer for the Native American Rights Fund, Locklear supervised significant litigation of Native American issues, as well as the legislative work of the office. In 1985, Locklear appeared as lead counsel in the Supreme Court again when she represented the Oneida Indian Nation in Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida. In that case, she formulated and argued the theory that tribes have a federal common law right to sue for possession of tribal land taken in violation of federal law. The Supreme Court adopted the argument, and the case became the seminal case in aboriginal land claims litigation, upon which all subsequent claims have been based.
  • James Lowery (Anybody Killa), was raised in Detroit, Michigan and is one of the few rappers to have a lisp. Many fans say his speech impediment is an important part of his art. Lowery is noted for having Native American themes on his albums, including his hits Mud Face and Hatchet Warrior.
  • Henry Berry Lowrie, was the Robeson County American Indian hero of the "Lowrie Wars" that took place during the Reconstruction era of the 1860s and 1870s. Lowrie and his guerilla band appropriated white Revolutionary doctrine to gain rights and freedoms that were being denied to American Indians in Robeson County. Indian perceptions of Reconstruction violence solidified the racial boundaries that had begun to take shape and harden during the Civil War era. The Lowrie gang received considerable support from the American Indian community. Critically, Lowrie and his guerilla band were popular among poor blacks and whites as well, since they believed that he best represented their interests to the elites of a racialized Southern society. Most importantly, the activities of the Lowrie gang radicalized the American Indian community. The post-Reconstruction rearticulation of a separate territory bounded by a web of wetlands that define Robeson County, along with an elaborate network of kinship ties was instrumental in the revitalized expression of Indian community. In an attempt to capture the elusive Lowrie gang, white incursions into Indian territory further highlighted the existence of a territorial and cultural borderland. Lowrie became a culture hero, representing those cultural and political boundaries that marked the Indians of Robeson County as a community of self-determining American Indian people. Henry Berry Lowrie is the protagonist of the outdoor Lumbee drama "Strike at the Wind".
  • John Oxendine, the Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Georgia and one of the most popular Republican politicians in the state. Oxendine is of Lumbee descent through his father.
  • Julian Pierce, attended Pembroke State University in Pembroke, North Carolina and graduated with a BS in Chemistry. Pierce went to Law school at North Carolina Central University School of Law where he earned his JD in 1976. He then attended Georgetown School of Law in Washington, DC to earn his Masters of Law in Taxation. At one time, Pierce was the most highly educated Indian. In 1988, despite numerous threats, Pierce ran for newly created Superior Court Judgeship in Robeson County. On March 26, 1988, Pierce was found dead in his home, having been shot three times. Although Pierce’s opponent in the election was automatically deemed the winner, later ballot counts gave the victory to Pierce. Pierce would have been the first Indian to hold the position of Superior Court Judge in North Carolina.
  • Jana, (born Jana Sampson) is a Lumbee singer. In 2002, Jana won a Nammy (Native American Music Award) for Best Single for her remix of "Stairway to Heaven" and a Nammy for 2001 Best Pop Artist. In 2000, she was nominated for two Nammy awards and starred in the film Dream Weaver.
  • Helen Maynor Scheirbeck was appointed by Congress to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Board of Directors, and continues to serve as NMAI’s Assistant Director of Public Programs. Scheirbeck received her B.A. in 1957 from Berea College (Kentucky) and her Ed. D in 1980 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Scheirbeck is the Human Resources Administrator for Save the Children Federation of the American Indian Programs and has served as Chairwoman of the Indian Education Task Force, American Indian Policy Review Commission, U. S. Congress, as well as Director of the Office of Indian Affairs, U.S. Office of Education, Dept. of HEW, and as professional staff for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights.
  • David E. Wilkins is Associate Professor of American Indian Studies, Political Science, and Law at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Wilkins received his PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1990. His publications focus particularly on Federal Indian law, tribal government, and tribal sovereignty. Wilkins is the author of The Navajo Political Experience (2003); American Indian Politics and the American Political System (2002); Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law, co-authored with Tsianina Lomawaima (2001); Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations, co-authored with Vine Deloria, Jr. (1999); American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice (1997); and Dine' Bibeehaz'aanii: A Handbook of Navajo Government (1987).
  • Robert A. Williams Jr. is Professor of Law and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. Williams was named the first Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (2003-2004), having previously served as the Bennet Boskey Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of Law at Harvard. He is the author of The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest, Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800, and is co-author of Federal Indian Law: Cases and Materials. Williams has written numerous articles on Indian Law and indigenous peoples' rights, as well as several books, and is the director of the Tribal Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona. Williams has represented tribal groups before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, and served as co-counsel for Floyd Hicks in the United States Supreme Court case, Nevada v. Hicks (2001 term). Williams presently serves as Chief Justice of the Yavapai-Prescott Apache Tribe Court of Appeals and as Chief Justice for the Court of Appeals, Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation. Williams also serves as judge pro tempore for the Tohono O'odham Nation.
  • Earl Cranston Lowry, U. Chattanooga BS; Vanderbilt,U. MD; Colonel, U.S. Army Medical Corps, with assignments in many areas of U.S. and abroad; U.S. Chief Surgeon of the European Theatre of War at the end of World War II; President Blue Shield for the State of Iowa from 1950-60; Highly decorated, with numerous awards in the field of medicine, including two honorary degrees. Dr. Lowry served as personal physician to Generals Patton and Eisenhower.
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