KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Malinda Maynor Lowery
Malinda Maynor Lowery is known for her original perspective in social and political history which she approaches from a non-traditional, indigenous point of view. Lowery has a new book just out titled- THE LUMBEE INDIANS, An American Struggle.
Lowery is an associate professor of history and Director of the Center for the study of the American South at the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill. She has a bachelors degree in history and literature from Harvard, a masters in documentary film production from Stanford as well as a PhD in History from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Lowery has produced and directed award-winning documentary films and videos. She co-produced and directed the full length documentary film- In the Light of Reverence about native struggles to protect sacred sites including efforts at Hopi. That film won awards at the Telleride Mountain Film Festival and the American Indian Film Festival.
Her articles have appeared in numerous academic journals.
On May 18, 2018, The New York Times published her editorial titled - "We are the original southerns". That piece is available online at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/confederate-monuments-indians-original-southerners.html
Lowery is also the Author of Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South.