Profs & Pints Baltimore: Baltimore's American Indian “Reservation”

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “Baltimore’s American Indian ‘Reservation,’” on the city’s fascinating history as a destination for American Indian migrants, with Ashley Minner Jones, former professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and enrolled citizen of the Lumbee Tribe.

In the mid-twentieth century thousands of members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, as well as people from other tribal nations, migrated to Baltimore City in search of jobs and a better quality of life. They formed a vibrant, urban, intertribal American Indian community that they affectionately referred to as their “reservation.”

Today’s Baltimoreans often are surprised to learn such a community ever existed, but its history is now coming to light thanks to an intergenerational team’s efforts to map it. The results, so far, have been three free public resources: an illustrated guide to the reservation, a website devoted to it, and a mobile…