His Family Said Lumbee. His DNA Said Africa.

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One ancestor. One family. Three races. And a DNA test that can't explain any of it. In the 1600s, Emanuell Cambow arrived in Jamestown, Virginia from the Kingdom of Ndongo in present-day Angola. He was freed, granted land, and started a family. Twelve generations later, his descendants identify as Black, white, and Native American, including members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Genealogist Andre Kearns traced his own family back to Cambow and took a DNA test: 60% African, 37% European, and barely 2% Native American and everything else combined. His Lumbee cousins' DNA results look almost the same. In this video, we explore the hidden history of the Lumbee, one of the largest Native American tribes east of the Mississippi, and why their identity has been debated for more than a century. We look at the Cumbo family's split across racial lines, the controversial genealogy research claiming the Lumbee descend from free people of color in colonial Virginia, the "Lumbee DNA stud

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