by Alfred W. Stuart Professor Emeritus of Geography, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte , 2010. Reprinted with permission
from The North Carolina Atlas Revisited:
http://ncatlasrevisited.org/ . Managing editor: Alfred W.
Stuart. Part 6: Native American Native Americans are
concentrated largely in two areas in North Carolina (Figure 20).
The largest cluster is in and around Robeson County , home of
the Lumbee Indians . That county alone accounts for 38 percent
of the state’s Native American population. Swain  and Jackson
counties contain a smaller concentration of mostly Cherokees
while few other counties have as many as one percent Native
Americans in their populations. The origins of the Lumbees is
somewhat uncertain while the western Cherokees are descendents
of escapes from the mid-19th century forced removal of Native
Americans also referred to as The Trail of Tears . Return to
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