New Lumbee Indian Exhibit at Fort Fisher-- Part 2

Officials in hand  for the exhibit debut included: 

Michelle Lanier, Director N.C.  Division of State Historic Parks

Sarah Koonts, Acting Deputy Secretary & State Archivist

Pamela B. Cashwell, Secretary Department of  Administration

Robin Cummings, Chancellor University of North Carolina at Pembroke,

Nancy Fields, Director, Museum of Southeast American Indian

Greg Richardson, Director, NC Commission  of Indian Affairs

Harvey Godwin, Jr., Lumbee Tribal Chairman

The exhibit was guest  curated by the Museum of the Southeast American Indian and the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

It uses text, maps photographs and  diagrams to show the grim price paid by individuals who  were transported more than  a hundred miles from home to construct a colossal Confederate fortress.

Fort Fisher State Historic Site is located at 1610 Fort Fisher Blvd. in Kure Beach, North Carolina.

--Old B-R'er