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1. Existence: We Are Still Here
A Journal of Being and (mis)Representation
Annabelle Webb

2. Land Acknowledgement
“The land the University is on was taken from the Enos,
Occaneechis, Shakoris, and Sissipahaws. In its early years,
the University also benefitted from the sale of land in
Tennessee that had belonged to the Cherokees and
Chickasaws.”
-Malinda Maynor Lowery

3. Ceremony of Secotan warriors
in North Carolina
Watercolor painted by
John White in 1585

4. Man of the Secotan Indians in
North Carolina
Watercolor painted by John
White in 1585

5. John White
discovers the
word “CROATOAN”
carved at
Roanoke’s fort
palisade

6. President Andrew Jackson’s
Message to Congress on Indian
Removal
National Archives

7. Cherokee Chief John Ross
(1790-1866)
Oklahoma Historical Society

8. Historical Marker in Robeson
County, North Carolina
The Historical Marker Database

9. AJ Briggs
Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina
What does existence mean to
you?
Being visible and people
know we do exist. We fought
through oppression and
discrimination and we’re still
here.
What does misrepresentation
mean to you?
Anger. Place of ignorance and
not wanting to learn. Not
knowing that it effects
people.

10. Makayla Richardson
Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe
What does existence mean to
you?
Persistent through the
continuous attempts of
erasures from colonists.
Living through obstacles and
oppression.
What does misrepresentation
mean to you?
Continual stereotypes and
the existence of them that are
still presented and believed.
Misinterpreting one’s
culture.

11. Lexy Locklear
Lumbee Tribe of North
Carolina
What does existence mean to
you?
The way that I interact with
the world and succeed.
What does misrepresentation
mean to you?
The majority culture trying to
represent other people
without listening to their
voices. People don’t ask
Natives for input.

12. Before 1790 1790-1900 1900-present
• First Encounters
• John White and the Lost
Colony
• Memory via lens of
John White
(ethnocentrism)
• New people, new land
• Changing Interactions
• Removal
• Ethnic cleansing
• Interactions with
Federal Government
• Racial Tensions
• Civil War
• Lowry War
• Misrepresentation
• Issues of cultural
appropriation and
erasure
• Existence
• Recognition
• Visibility

13. Continuity
• All of these issues are within contexts of American
History.
• Discovery and First Encounters
• Lowry War and Civil War
• Modern Day and Cultural Shifts
• There are current Native issues that stem from historical
encounters of colonialism.
• Territorial issues
• Social and political issues

14. Bibliography
• Breen, Benjamin. "Painting the New World." The Public Domain Review. November 28, 2016.
Accessed April 1, 2019. https://publicdomainreview.org/2012/04/24/painting-the-new-
world/.
• "Henry Berry Lowrie Historical Marker." Historical Marker Database. March 24, 2017.
Accessed April 9, 2019. https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=102211.
• "President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress "On Indian Removal"." Today's Document
from the National Archives. Accessed April 2, 2019. https://www.archives.gov/historical-
docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=1206.
• Quine, Katie. "Edging Closer to Answers: The Lost Colony." Our State Magazine. June 14, 2018.
Accessed April 1, 2019. https://www.ourstate.com/edging-closer-to-answers-the-lost-
colony/.
• "Ross Family History." Hunter's Home Ross Family History. Accessed April 4, 2019.
https://www.okhistory.org/sites/mhrossfamily.