About The Exsanguination of the Second Society: Scholarly Historical Fiction Relating to Robeson County, North Carolina’s Tuscaroras by Stephanie M. Sellers:

This fat book is a book within a book, set in rural North Carolina in the year 2020. Each chapter has a shadow chapter, i.e., Chapter 1, The Vexing Now, Jake’s present life, is shadowed by Chapter 1, The Vexing Then, Jake’s past life, which is a draft of a collaborated book with a librarian written out of desperation. Psychohistory binds the chapter versions while a love story propels the reader to learn if Jake Wilkes “bakes an apple pie” for his proposal as a love triangle’s roots are exposed and a tribe is threatened with extinction.

The Lumbee Tribe recently “shadowed in” NC’s Tuscaroras as a “splinter tribe,” without their consent, thusly oppressing their heritage and efforts for reparations.

This shadow-chapter method works to serve as a demonstration of human behavior in how political decisions are made. It demonstrates how time has changed the region’s culture thusly affecting perspectives during adaptation periods while it also highlights what does not change. This method highlights the region’s endangered vernacular as a social language that binds community. During interviews, as people grew relaxed with me, both Lumbees and Tuscaroras used more of the region’s vernacular.

Most importantly, it highlights the endangerment of the factual history of NC’s Tuscaroras, early victims of colonization in forced removal from their own lands. It draws attention to how the People have been victimized by colonization’s limited scope of preservation, by land swindlers, by political persuasion, and widespread bias and oppression, much of which has been culminated from false narratives, ultimately fulfilling the original white philosophy of “kill the Indian, save the man.”

Seventy-five annotated references are within the body of the story. From an instructional aspect, the presentation of the facts provokes curiosity in learners: It encourages research. The Then chapters are designed to attract young readers and serves as a relief from the Now chapters which are heavier with facts. The shadowing methods demonstrates how behavior patterns within different eras transcend timelines.

Chapter four, Between the Lines Now, is an example of the story’s construction, allegory methods and historical reference. This chapter continues the exploration of name originations and carries annotated testimony from honored history professors on the possibilities on the “traded” Native American languages and a regionally honored history professor’s statement that he is descended from The Lost Colony. The tradition of oral history is magnified. The erasure of Tuscarora history is established, and the magnitude of political conspiracies is revealed. Between the Lines Then serves as a “satirical” foreshadowing of the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ questionable relationship with Undercover detectives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Indian activists during the 1970’s, by providing an action-packed adventure with unexpected outcomes as the young boys work to complete their “daring project.”

A grassroots movement to educate the masses on the area’s true Native history, to lift the oppression, expose the unscrupulous and find the stolen proof of ascendency, leads to a powerful explosion when outsiders rush in to help Bruce Black.

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