They’re not. They are Lumbee Indians from North Carolina. On January 18, 1958, James W. “Catfish” Cole, a KKK organizer from South Carolina, decided to hold a cross burning to encourage upholding segregation in Robeson County, North Carolina. Robeson County had a triracial population of whites, blacks and Native Americans. The point of the rally was to encourage racial purity. It was not a good idea. About 50 Klansman came north from South Carolina and gathered in a cornfield nears Hayes Pond on the outskirts of the city of Maxton. Several hundred Lumbee showed up and, with firearms, scattered the KKK members. Catfish Cole escaped into a nearby swamp while the Lumbees seized the Klan’s memorabilia from what is now known as the Battle of Hayes Pond.