On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice visual arts Making the Carry traces the

Making the Carry traces the routes by which the couple came to live on Basswood Lake on the international border

and wisdom

Clifford Canku

the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy

and their influence is significant for future generations

On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice visual arts Making the Carry traces theDespite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolinaa patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Indians have adapted to a radically transformed world while maintaining vibrant cultures and powerful