Climate News (2024)
Lumbee author Ryan Emanuel shares stories of Indigenous survival in fight for environmental justice
Zachary Turner from WFAE’s Climate News speaks with Ryan in May 2024 about his new book, On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice.
“Land acknowledgments are pretty familiar to most people today. But “On the Swamp” begins with a very different kind of land acknowledgment. It begins with the formation of North Carolina’s coastal plains, details the settlement of these lands by Indigenous people and concludes with a proclamation of the continuous occupation of Robeson County by Lumbee and other groups “since time immemorial.””