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This tribe is the largest Native American tribe in North Carolina
What is the Lumbee Tribe?
Native dancers wear this at powwows to represent their culture, family, and personal identity.
What is regalia?
This popular fried dough food is commonly found at powwows.
What is frybread?
This is all month long celebration in November recognizes that Native American cultures and contributions.
What is Native American Heritage Month?
This historic UNCP campus building houses the Museum of the Southeast American Indian.
What is Old Main?
Headquartered in Clinton, this North Carolina tribe has ancestral ties to the river in the area.
What is the Coharie Tribe?
This women’s dance style features a shawl and energetic movements that resemble a butterfly.
What is Fancy Shawl?
These three crops are traditionally known as the Three Sisters.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Native children were forcibly separated from their families to attend these government- or church-run institutions.
What are Indian boarding schools?
When UNCP opened in 1887, it was known by this name.
What is Croatan Normal School?
This Indigenous Tribe's name is associated with "People of the Falling Star"
What is the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe?
This dance style features a dress adorned with rows of metal cones.
What is Jingle Dress dancing?
This "excuse" is the one thing you should NEVER say when someone offers you their grandma’s cooking.
What is “I’m not hungry”?
These four plants make up the sacred herbs.
What are cedar, sweetgrass, tobacco, and sage?
Named for Curt and Catherine Locklear, this campus center provides cultural programming and support for Native students.
What is the Curt & Catherine Locklear American Indian Heritage Center?
This is the number of state-recognized Tribal Nations in North Carolina
What is 9?
This traditional art involves creating designs using small beads.
What is beadwork?
This food-preservation process removes moisture from food.
What is drying or dehydration?
This name refers to the forced removal of Cherokee people from their homelands in the 1830s.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Together known as the Native Strong Coalition, these four Native American organizations serve the UNCP community.
What are NASO, AISES, Alpha Pi Omega Sorority, Inc., and Phi Sigma Nu Fraternity?
This North Carolina Tribal Nation traces its ancestry to the historic Saponi, Tutelo, and Occaneechi peoples.
What is the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe?
These cultural, personal, and spiritual meanings explain why a dancer’s clothing is called regalia rather than this term for dress-up attire.
What is a costume?
This term describes growing food using Indigenous knowledge passed down through generations.
What is Indigenous agriculture?
By teaching ancestral languages to new generations, Native communities use this practice to resist cultural erasure.
What is language revitalization?
UNCP’s founding by and for this population makes it historically unique among four-year public universities in the United States.
Who are American Indians?