Maryland Agency Receives $50K Grant To Help Document Native American Heritage In Baltimore

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CROWNSVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — A authorities bureau has received a $50,000 National Park Service assistance to papers Native American past and civilization successful Baltimore City.

The South Broadway Baptist Church, astatine 211 South Broadway, is 1 of the landmarks that volition beryllium studied. Courtesy: Maryland Department of Planning.

The Maryland Historical Trust, a part of the Maryland Department of Planning, volition usage the wealth to probe important landmarks associated with Native Americans who lived successful the metropolis and nominate them for the National Register of Historic Places.

Members of the Piscataway and the Susquehannock lived connected the onshore that present makes up Baltimore City earlier the accomplishment of European colonists, the readying section said.

Starting successful the 1890s, members of the Lumbee Tribe, whose ancestral location is successful North Carolina, began emigrating to Baltimore, with thousands arriving aft World War II seeking caller occupation opportunities. Many settled successful the Upper Fells Point and Washington Hill neighborhoods, an country immoderate Lumbee referred to arsenic “the reservation,” the readying section said.

“We expect this endeavor volition supply caller opportunities for collaboration and recognition,” said Elizabeth Hughes, Maryland Historical Trust Director and the State Historic Preservation Officer. “Documentation is the captious archetypal measurement that volition assistance preservationists and assemblage members to advocator for preserving the places important to Native heritage.”

Ashley Minner, a folklorist, prof astatine University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and enrolled subordinate of the Lumbee tribe, has created a integer representation of Lumbee landmarks successful Southeast Baltimore. Locations see the South Broadway Baptist Church, wherever Lumbee attended services; the Baltimore American Indian Center and Heritage Museum; and the erstwhile tract of Moonlight Restaurant, 1 of the archetypal restaurants wherever Lumbee could beryllium down and eat.

The Maryland Historical Trust said her enactment volition service arsenic a instauration for its research.

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The bureau has antecedently received National Park Service backing from the Underrepresented Community assistance programme to papers buildings associated the civilian rights movement, women’s suffrage movement, and Asian American heritage.