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==Adolph Dial== A notable member of Prospect Methodist Church, [[Adolph Dial]] was the Founding Chairman of the Department of American Indian Studies at the [[University of North Carolina at Pembroke]].<ref>Joseph Michael Smith, ''The Lumbee Methodists: Getting to Know Them'' (Raleigh: Commission of Archives and History, 1990), 93.</ref> Born in Prospect in 1922 to Noah and Mary Ellen Dial, Dial would become a leading authority in academia for not only the Lumbee tribe, but also among North Carolinian and national historians in the field of Native American studies.<ref>Linda Oxendine "Remembering Adolph Dial: A Man for all Seasons", last modified September 04, 2013, [https://archive.today/20150418232223/http://robesonian.com/news/news_local_features/2403182/Remembering-Adolph-Dial:-A-man-for-all-seasons].</ref> Though Dial gained statewide recognition soon after his employment at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 1958, Dial grew to national prominence during his tenure on the [[American Indian Policy Review Commission]].<ref name="Remembering Adolph Dial">"Remembering Adolph Dial"</ref> In 1971, the Ford Foundation provided Dial and fellow history professor at UNC-P, David Eliades a great for continued research on the Lumbee Indians—this in turn led to the publication of the 1975 ethnography, ''[[The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians]]'', an expansive history of the tribe covering its history from colonialism through the modern day.<ref name="Remembering Adolph Dial"/> Dial's contributions have led to the establishment of scholarly awards in his name at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, as well the naming of the Dial Humanities Building on the school's campus.<ref>"Dial Humanities Building", last modified on October 15, 2012, http://www2.uncp.edu/map/dial_humanities_bldg.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140216165443/http://www2.uncp.edu/map/dial_humanities_bldg.htm |date=February 16, 2014 }}</ref> Adolph Dial believed he was descended from John White's Lost Colonists, specifically Virginia Dare.<ref name=SMS/>
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