My object is a Native American Arrowhead, native particularly to the Lumbee tribe. These types of arrowheads could be made of many different materials, such as flint, obsidian, quartz, bone, and “high-quality” stone. This arrowhead was used to hunt a variety of animals, ranging from large game such as mammoths and bison to smaller animals like birds and fish. This object holds great value for my family and our history, as it connects me to my mother's Lumbee Tribe roots. My great-grandmother is a full-blooded Lumbee, and my great-great-grandfather was a blue-eyed Indian, which some believe is a result of breeding with European settlers. Several theories suggest that this can be traced back to colonists from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. The Lumbee Tribe is primarily located in southeast North Carolina, in Robeson, Hoke, Scotland, and Cumberland counties. To me, this object shows how Americans have always been willing to fight for themselves and for what they believe in. Whether that includes fighting for our independence or fighting with one another to keep our country together, America as a nation would not exist in the way it does now if we did not fight for it. This object connects to the themes of conflict and resistance, as it ties us back to the Trail of Tears and the awful atrocities that were committed by the American settlers during the American-Indian Wars from the 17th to the 19th centuries, including the rapid decline of the Native American populations.

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