It could not manufacture the kind of belonging that allowed the Lumbee to answer it as a community.

Why The Event Could Have Been Forgotten — But Wasn’t

Many local confrontations disappear from public memory even when they were important to the people involved.

Hayes Pond survived because several forms of memory reinforced one another.

There were photographs.

There were newspaper stories.

There were court records.

There were participants who told the story to children and grandchildren.

There were museum collections and oral histories.

There was a folk song.