The Native American Oral History Collection curated at the University of Florida comprises more than 1,000 oral history interviews digitized from over 2,000 audio tapes recorded between 1970-2000. Originally funded by Doris Duke, the recordings consist of oral history interviews with members of tribal communities east of the Mississippi including voices of the Catawba, Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Lumbee, and Seminole peoples. Recent funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation allowed for the revitalization of this collection.
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is represented in the DDCF project by 282 interviews and recordings spanning the time period from 1969-1974. Religious leaders, political officials, business owners, local civic organizers, and countless other community members of all ages are interviewed, culminating in a deeply meaningful and widely diverse collection of tribal oral history. In addition to the main collection of interviews, mostly taken in North Carolina's Robeson, Sampson, and Hoke Counties, this inventory also contains the Urban Lumbee sub-collection—about 50 interviews that capture life in the Lumbee diaspora community in Baltimore, Maryland.
