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B I We the . w PEMBROKE J A YCEES \ W ould like to W el come . j Each and Everyone of You ^ to the | 1984 Lumbee > Homecoming Week K President Jr Bill Oxendine n 4 4 We believe Special People make Special Things happen in Special Ways." Lonesome George Gobel invites you to the BEMCO" Country Sellabration and Bemco s luxurious Royal sacrdpedic Sleep set PEMBROKE FURNITURE CO. Complete Home Furnishing Center dEMCO Main St. - Pern broke ,,'4"w"" H"rWl Decorating Your Home? We're This Area's Newest Et Most Complete Home Decorating Center Carpet- Vinyl-Draperies Blinds - Brass ? Statuary - Pictures & More 30% on Hunter & Co. Wallcoverings Brail Lamps, Pictures, A Statues 20% on W* SHCMM IN RMUMM A Cwwmrctal Cwyit AIm REMNANTS SALE! IN PROGRESS 75 Pieces Prices Start as Low As $3.50 A Yard I Chwehw - Cei Ue Fw Frw Estlmetee Oe Cenwt Fer Y?flirt?1>? Swifltcw 9ntowta ruSrcMfoi pitwh stum | Adolph Dial featured in ? U.S. News & World Report I by Gene Warren PEMBROKE--"U.S. Newt and World Repbrt." a nation al publication "with nine mil lion readers, has in its July 9 issue (now on the news stands). a two-page spread on the 400th Anniversary of North Carolina's founding. But it has something very much extra pertaining to Pembroke State University. On two-thirds of one page is an interview with Adolph Dial, chairman of Pembroke State University's American Indian Studies Department, entitled: "'Lost Colony'-A Mystery Now Solved?" Dial, 61. states as part of this interview that he believes that he is a descendant of Virginia Dare, the first Eng lish baby bom in America. "The oral traditions are clear that her family survived and that the Dials around here may be her descendants. Even today, if you pronounce Dare with a Southern accent, it sounds very much like Dial. And 1 believe that I am a descendant of Virginia Dare, too." Dial also states there is evidence that the colonists at Roanoke Island "joined friendly Indians and even tually intermarried with them. Those Indians, now called the Lumbees, are centered in what is now southeastern North Carolina" or Lumbee Indian country. Pembroke State University has evolved from a tiny school founded by these Indians in 1887 and will celebrate its centennial in 1967. Dial, who has taught at Pembroke State since 1958 as a history professor, has spok en all over the nation about Lumbee Indians and other American Indians. He co authored a book on the Lumbees in 1975. entitled: "The Only Land I Know." He is chairman of the Robeson Historical Drama. Inc., which has sponsored the Indian outdoor drama. "Strike At The Wind." since 1976. The drama is now in its ninth season. Commenting about the ma gazine article, included below in its entirety. Dial said: "1 think any time one has an opportunity to provide na tional coverage to the Univer sity or Lumbee Indian people, it's great. I always welcome such an opportunity and am grateful to 'U.S. News and orld Report' for publishing this interview." Dial, who had an article published in World Book Encyclopedia two years ago, says he is tremendously plea sed over "publicity of this magnitude" appearing in a publication that has an inter national circulation with bu reaus all over the world. Appropriately enough, the article came out at the same time as the Lumbee Indians' annual Homecoming at Pem broke during Fourth of July week. The article appearing in "U.S. News and World Re port" follows: LUMBERTON ? A new Democratic primary for the Robeson County Board of Education District 6 seat will be held July 31, according to an order from the state Board of Elections. The state board last month voided the results of the May 8 primary and ordered a new one based on the Robeson County Board of Elections findings that ineligible voters cast ballots in the race for a seat on the county school board. Incumbent Pete Clark was the unofficial victor over Larry Chavis Jr. in the primary. Chavis lost by 40 votes and challenged the results. The new primary date for the district, which has eight precincts, was announced Monday at a countv elections board meeting. All District 6 residents registered to vote are eligible to cast ballots in the new primary, according to the state board's order. Last month, the local board found that in Lumberton's sixth precinct, 166 ballots were cast for the District 6 seat although there were only 25 people listed in the poll book as being eligible to vote. "Lost Colon v A Mystery v Now Solved? Although the English first landed on Roanoke Island, N.C., in 1584, it was not until 1587 that a full fledged settlement of more than 100 men, women and children was estab lished. When the next English ships returned to Roanoke Island in 1590, they found the site abandoned. Here Adolph Dial, chairman of the Department of American Indian Studies at Pembroke State Universi ty, N.C., and a Lumbee Indian, ex plores possibilities of what became of the legendary "Lost Colony." Q Professor Dial, what happened to the Lost Colony? DM It really disappear without a trace? A No. There is overwhelming evi dence that after the colonists were left on their own and possibly faced starvation, they joined friendly Indi ans and eventually intermarried with them. Those Indians, now called the Lumbees, are centered in what is now southeastern North Car olina. Very strong oral tradition handed down from one generation to the next holds that the Lumbees are the colonists' descendants. Q What evidence Is there of that? A For one thing, the Englishmen who returned to the site of the aban doned colony on Roanoke Island found the word CR OA TO A N carved in wood. The colony's returning gov ernor, John White, took that as a sign the group had moved to an Indian area called Croatan, which was occu pied by the Hatteras Indians, who are ancestors of the Lumbees. The notion seemed to be in keeping with a plan to move that White had dis cussed with the colonists three years earlier. White was not unduly con cerned about the group's safety, but he was unable to locate them before a storm forced him to leave. Q Were there contacts between the Lumbees and any other early settlers? A Yes. An adventurous man named Morgan Jones claimed to have walked across the Carolinas in the 1660s, and he said he was cap tured and then befriended by Indi ans who spoke English. His descrip tion of the area sounds like Robeson County, N.C., the heart of the Lum bee settlement. Then When the fir^t big wave of Scottish immigrants reached the Cape Fear Valley in the 1730s, they were astonished to find a group of English-speaking people al ready living there in European-style houses and tilling the soil in the Eu ropean fashion. Many of them were blue-eyed and light-haired. Those people had?and their de scendants still have?English family names that were exactly the same as the lost colonists had, such as Brooks, Sampson and Jones. Q What happened to the language? A They had apparently integrat ed so completely that, even though they continued to prize the Indian part of their heritage, too, they passed along the English language in the form that was spoken in the 16th century. Nearly 100 years ago, historian Stephen Weeks studied this Robeson County group and was struck by their extraordinary old speech pat terns. He noted that they began tell ing the old traditions this way: "Mon [man], my fayther told me that his fayther told him... Q If all this has been known ao long, why Is thsra still a widespread Mm that the Lost Colony was wiped out? A It suits the purpose of some ro mantics who are more intrigued by a supposedly unsolved mystery than the facts. The legend defies the find ings of travelers and historians who have been saying for hundreds of years that the descendants of-the lost colonists were alive and well in North Carolina. Q Are there any dues as to what happened to Virginia Data, the first En glish bsby bom In America? A Yes. The oral traditions are clear that her family survived and that the Dials around here may be her descendants. Even today, if you pronounce Dare with a Southern ac cent, it sounds very much like Dial. And I believe that I am a descendant of Virginia Dare, too. Weatherization grants available The Red Springs Neigh borhood Service Center, sponsored by Four County Community Services, Inc. has been awarded a new wea therization contract. 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