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Interview no. | R-0722 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.40. Special Research Projects: Work and Cook and Eat: Lumbee Foodways of Robeson County, NC |
Project description | Interviews, conducted in 2014 by Sara Wood in Robeson County, NC as part of a project called “Lumbee Indians of NC: Work and Cook and Eat” with the Southern Foodways Alliance. The interviews focus on Lumbee men and women who work in or are affiliated with foodways in North Carolina. They reveal Lumbee identity through traditions, stories, experiences, and food. As interviewees recount the beginnings, daily operations, and ends of their own businesses, they touch on the ways in which food affects family and community within the Lumbee culture. |
Date | 29 July 2014 |
Interviewee | Locklear, Emma K. |
Interviewee DOB | 1978 |
Interviewee ethnicity |
Native Americans Lumbee Indians |
Interviewer | Wood, Sara. |
Abstract | Emma Locklear began managing Lumbee Fish Market soon after her uncles, Matthew and Joseph Jones, opened the business in 2007. When Joseph fell ill and Matthew, a pastor, felt called back to the church, Emma took over the business. Lumbee Fish Market sits between the most bustling Town of Pembroke, and the wide and rural Prospect community. She splits her time between the Lumberton Correctional Institution, where she works as an officer, and the fish market, where she works with most of her family members. With the proximity to so many swamps and rivers, fishing is abundant in Robeson County. Each day local fishermen bring in catch from the Atlantic Ocean and its tributaries: shrimp, flounder, perch, catfish, mullet, and the very popular spots and croaker. Emma sells to nearby restaurants and customers, and also cleans fish brought in by those who’ve spent their day fishing on many of the nearby swamps and rivers. |
Citation | Interview with Emma Locklear by Sara Wood, 29 July 2014 R-0722, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collections, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | R0722_Audio |