After skimming and reading the very long chapter from Dr. Karen Blu (1996) entitled, "Where do you stay at?: Home Place and Community among the Lumbee," here's a quote I'd like you to focus on for this discussion from Blu's article on page 207:
"It's not that Indians do not migrate, but rather that they tend to do it reluctantly, and parents who are left behind are often torn and angry at a system that does not provide jobs for their ambitious children. For them, in the best of all worlds, the local situation would allow all the Indian children who wanted good, secure jobs and adequate housing to have them so that the community could be whole. For Indians, unless some children "stayed home" in the homeland, there would be no localized community, no focus, no peopled homeland. Lumbee identity, like the particular identities of other Native American peoples, depends heavily upon connection to a particular place, a home place. Lacking a home place, a home people, their identity would be a more generalized pan-Indian one, a free-floating kind of ethnicity with a very different emotional and conceptual construction."
It's been a long time since Blu wrote the quote above. My question is how will (do) Lumbee Indians continue to have this tie to their homelands which Blu discusses? Use what you've read from Blu's chapter, or your other readings in this class so far to support your response. I'm asking you all to guess about a future that we don't know anything about yet, but you do know more about Lumbees now than you did at the beginning of this course so based on that knowledge you should be able to answer this question (cite your sources). Don't forget to reply to one of your classmate's responses here too