List of Lumbees

This is a list of notable members of the Lumbee tribe.

List
  • Dean Chavers, Ph.D., Director of Catching the Dream, formerly called the Native American Scholarship Fund.
  • Ben Chavis, Ph.D., author, and advocate of high-quality urban education. From 2000, he was an early leader of Oakland's American Indian Public Charter School. It won a National Blue Ribbon Award in 2007. He was indicted in March 2017 on six felony counts for money laundering and mail fraud, in association with certain activities at the school.[1][2]
  • Bruce Barton, author, journalist, teacher and activist. Barton started the Carolina Indian Voice, a weekly publication, in Pembroke in January 1973. He served as its editor until 1998. known for his efforts to end the practice of double-voting, which prior to the merger of Robeson County schools allowed city residents to vote for members of both the city and county school boards. He also spoke out against police brutality, helped to get Indian officials elected and worked to prevent UNCP’s historic Old Main from being demolished. As an author, Barton was a scholar on Lumbee legend Henry Berry Lowrie and also wrote about American Indian basketball players in and around Robeson County.
  • Chris Chavis, a professional wrestler.
  • Kenwin Cummings, NFL player (linebacker); attended Wingate University.
  • Johnny Hunt, a Southern Baptist clergyman, senior pastor, former national president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
  • Ashton Locklear, elite artistic gymnast, 2014 world champion with the United States team, 2016 Olympic Team Alternate and 2017 World Championship team member
  • Gene Locklear, Major League Baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and three other teams.
  • Heather Locklear, American actress.
  • Julian Pierce, lawyer. In 1988, Pierce ran for a newly created Superior Court Judgeship in Robeson County but was shot and killed at home. Ballot counts gave the victory to Pierce. He would have been the first Native American to hold the position of Superior Court Judge in the state.
  • Jana Mashonee (born Jana Sampson), two-time Grammy-nominated singer. She has won 10 Nammy Awards.
  • Kelvin Sampson, collegiate and professional basketball coach, currently the Head Coach of the Houston Cougars.
  • 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.
  • Ruth Dial Woods, educator, community worker and activist.[3]

References
  1. "Chavis indicted for money laundering and mail fraud", The Robesonian, 30 March 2017
  2. Jill Tucker, "Former Oakland charter schools director charged with fraud", San Francisco Chronicle, 30 March 2017; accessed 5 May 2017
  3. "Ruth Dial Woods". uncfsu.edu/whm. Fayetteville, North Carolina: Fayetteville State University. 2015. Archived from the original on 3 December 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
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