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The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is excited to announce the most recent editions of The Indianhead Yearbooks from The University of North Carolina at Pembroke are now available on our website. This is a small batch of only two yearbooks, but there is a special edition.
Typically, yearbooks cover a single academic year but UNC Pembroke published a single yearbook with material from 2021-2022. This yearbook comes in the wake of COVID-19 and gives insight into what the lives were like for members of the UNC Pembroke community. Take some time and flip through the pages, there are some real gems in this yearbook.
To learn more about The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, please visit their website linked here.
To view more materials from The North Carolina at Pembroke, please visit their contributor page linked here.
To explore more yearbooks from across the state, please visit our North Carolina Yearbook Collection linked here.
Thanks to our partner, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a batch containing four of the university’s catalogs are now available on DigitalNC. This batch adds catalogs from the years 2016 to 2021, expanding our holdings of the University’s catalogs from 1906 to the present day. While the earliest catalog we have available on our site is from 1906, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke has been operating since the late 1880s.
The Croatan Normal School, now the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, was established on March 7, 1887 by the General Assembly of North Carolina. The bill that passed that day allowed for the formation of a secondary school that would educate American Indian teachers and appropriated $500 for teacher’s salaries. Though the teacher’s salaries were provided for, the General Assembly neglected to supply land or funds for building the actual school. This left it up to the Croatan, now called the Lumbee, and the community to raise funds and find the land. The Lumbee quickly secured the funds and began building what would be a clapboard, two-story school building. Less than a year after the bill passed, the Croatan Normal School opened its doors. Over the last 135 years the school has gone through numerous name, curriculum, and building changes, however, time has not changed the integral part that the school continues to hold in the Lumbee community.
To learn more about University of North Carolina at Pembroke, please visit their website.
To view more University of North Carolina at Pembroke catalogs on our website, click here.
To learn more about the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, please visit their website.
Information for this blog post was gathered from the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina website, University of North Carolina at Pembroke website, and the NC Department Natural and Cultural Resources blog.
Thanks to our partner, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, catalogs from the school and its precursors are now available on our website. The catalogs are from 1906, when the school was called the Croatan Normal School, to 2013, when it was known as it is now as UNC-Pembroke.
The title page of the 1906 catalog for the Croatan Normal School.
The school was originally established in 1887 as the Croatan Normal School as a result of legislation that passed in response to a petition by Native Americans of the area. This original school was established for the training of Native American teachers in Robeson County. In 1909 the school was moved to Pembroke and in 1911 the name was changed to the Indian Normal School of Robeson County. Then, in 1913, the name was changed again to the Cherokee Indian Normal School of Robeson County. In 1933, junior college coursework was added to the school’s curriculum and in 1939, four-year degree programs were instituted. In 1941 the name was changed again to the Pembroke State College for Indians. In 1945, enrollment was opened to people from all government-recognized groups of Native Americans, rather than just the Native Americans from Robeson County. In 1953, white students began to be admitted to the school and in 1969, the name was changed to Pembroke State University. In 1972, the University of North Carolina system was established, with Pembroke State University as one of the sixteen campuses included. In 1996, the school became The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, as it is known today.
The cover of the Pembroke State University course catalog from the 1975-1976 academic year.
We’ll be working with the University of North Carolina at Pembroke to fill in additional catalogs over the coming months. We’ve also worked with them to scan their yearbooks, and you can see those on their contributor page. For more information about the university, visit their website.
Over 100 videos from UNC-Pembroke, transferred primarily from U-Matic and VHS, are now available on DigitalNC. Thanks to our colleagues in the Southern Folklife Collection, these audiovisual materials were digitized utilizing funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Screenshot from a WPSU-TV promo that aired in 1995
The films cover a range of topics, from promotional films about degree programs at the school, to graduation videos from the 1980s and 1990s. Some of the films document a trip to Georgia to do a cemetery cleanup at the Croatan Indian Memorial Cemetery.
A substantial portion of the videos are from student produced programming including the Pembroke Forum, and Crosscurrents.
There are also several shows produced by students at Robeson Community College, including RCC Today and Robeson Watch.
To view all materials on DigitalNC from UNC-Pembroke, visit their partner page here. To view more films and other audio-visual materials from around NC, visit our Sights and Sounds collection.
DigitalNC is happy to announce a new batch of digitized newspaper issues from The Carolina Indian Voice. This round of issues includes most of 1976, all of 1977, and fill-ins for the years 1979-1996. These additions have brought us that much closer to a complete online collection of The Voice. We would like to thank our partners at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for providing the physical issues that made this possible.
Established in 1973 and running until 2005, The Carolina Indian Voice published weekly on Thursdays. The Voice was based out of Pembroke, North Carolina, seat of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. As the majority of Pembroke and Robeson County residents are of Lumbee ancestry, The Voice focused on local issues and events that spoke to the interests of the Indigenous community. With taglines such as “Dedicated to the Best in All of Us” and “Building Communicative Bridges in a Tri-Racial Setting”, many articles from ’76 and ’77 focus on advocacy and race. Headlines include local election coverage and racially conscious endorsements for representatives as well as pointed opinion pieces from founder and editor Bruce Barton on topics such as racial injustice.
The Carolina Indian Voice, August 12, 1976. This advertisement implores citizens to vote for representatives according to the population’s demographics for the Robeson County School District Board of Education election to correct long standing racial injustices; “six (6) Indians, two (2) Blacks, and one (1) White”.
The Carolina Indian Voice provides a necessary Indigenous perspective to life in North Carolina. To browse through all currently digitized issues of The Voice, click here. And to see more materials from our partner the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, visit their partner page here.
Thanks to our partner, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, we now have more of their yearbooks and course catalogs on DigitalNC, bringing yearbook coverage for UNCP up to 2019.
The cover of the course catalog for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke for the 2006-2007 academic year.
For more information about The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, please visit their website.
A snow celebration in the February 22, 1979 issue
Almost two decades of the newspaper The Carolina Indian Voice, from 1977-1996, are now up on DigitalNC. Provided by our partner, UNC at Chapel Hill, this batch joins previously digitized issues that date from 1996-2005. The Carolina Indian Voice was established in 1973 and continued through 2005, so now nearly the entire print run is digitized.
A painting of the Carolina Indian Voice building as shown in the January 10, 1980 issue
The Carolina Indian Voice is one of North Carolina’s oldest American Indian newspapers. It served members of the Lumbee Tribe living in Robeson County including the town of Pembroke, which is the seat of the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina, as well as the home of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a historically American Indian University.
The Carolina Indian Voice was published weekly on Thursdays and was a source for all sorts of local news. Topics covered included local politics and civic issues, cultural events, school happenings, and more. Articles on local and national civil rights issues and efforts to end racial discrimination pertinent to Robeson County’s American Indian population were also covered alongside everyday happenings in the county.
An article on H.R. 12996 regarding federal recognition of American Indian tribes in the August 24, 1978 issue
Click here to take browse through the digitized issues. To see more materials from our partner UNC at Chapel Hill, visit their DigitalNC partner page or take a look at their website.
The fifth grade winner of the Pembroke Elementary Read-A-Thon in the December 8, 1977 issue
Headline from the September 24, 1998 issue of The Carolina Indian Voice.
Almost ten years of The Carolina Indian Voice, a newspaper out of Pembroke, North Carolina, are now up on DigitalNC thanks to our partner the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Carolina Indian Voice was established in 1973 and was published on a weekly basis until 2005. Issues from 1996-2005 are now available digitally. The paper primarily served the interests of members of the Lumbee Tribe living in Robeson County, who make up more than a third of the population of Robeson County and almost 90% of the town of Pembroke.
The paper includes articles and editorials concerning local issues such as politics, social events, civic projects, and more. Although there is a strong focus specifically on issues relevant to members of the Lumbee Tribe, the paper also covers news and events pertaining to American Indians throughout the state of North Carolina and nationally.
Image from the 1998 First Annual Fall Pow Wow in Hoke County as seen in the November 11, 1998 issue of The North Carolina Indian Voice.
Headline from the February 25, 1999 issue of The North Carolina Indian Voice.
The paper also focuses on advocacy with many articles covering struggles against the discrimination American Indians face regarding employment, education, and housing in the United States.
To browse through issues of The North Carolina Indian Voice click here. To see more materials from our partner, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, visit their partner page.
The 2017 edition of The Indianhead, University of North Carolina at Pembroke’s yearbook, is now available on DigitalNC. This edition joins many previously digitized UNC Pembroke yearbooks dating as far back as 1942.
The 2017 edition of The Indianhead documents many important moments from the academic year including graduation, sports games, performances, and more. This recent edition also contains a two-page spread documenting the effects of Hurricane Matthew, which struck North Carolina in October 2016, on the UNC Pembroke community. The yearbook states, “UNCP campus [was] submerged in up to almost 2 feet of water in some areas… this collage includes pictures of the damage dealt, the community response to the aftermath, and reactions from students who were directly affected by the storm.”
Part of a collage documenting Hurricane Matthew’s effects on the UNCP campus.
To learn more about UNC Pembroke, visit their partner page, or take a look at their website.
A 2016 yearbook photographer and a 1985 yearbook photographer shown side by side in the 2016 edition of The Indianhead
Students preforming a play in 2016 and in 1985
Six years of The Indianhead, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke yearbook, are now up on DigitalNC. These yearbooks span 2011-2016 and show images of sporting events, performances, clubs and activities, and student life. These recent yearbook also have different themes for each year. The 2016 edition’s theme is “back to the future,” and many of the pages juxtapose images of Pembroke from the 1985 yearbook with photos from the 2015-2016 academic year. Looking through the pages, one can see changes and similarities between clubs, classes, and activities through the years. DigitalNC has digitized yearbooks from UNC Pembroke that date back to 1942, so you can search through the collection and see even more changes over time.
To view the newest editions of The Indianhead, take a look at the links below:
To see more materials from University of North Carolina at Pembroke, please view their partner page, and learn more about UNC Pembroke by visiting their website.
