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Documentary Shows Lumbee Life In Robeson County

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The Lumbee are the largest American Indian nation east of the Mississippi River and many of them live in Robeson County, North Carolina.

Many of the Lumbee people worked in the manufacturing business in the county, but since the 1980s and 1990s, the industry has declined. Students and faculty at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke have studied the intersection between Lumbee identity and working-class life in Robeson County.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Michele Fazio, professor of English and working-class studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a co-producer of "Voices of The Lumbee," and Alexis Locklear, student at UNC-Pembroke, and a member of the Lumbee nation.

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.