Tfi CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE '
4 led each Thursday by First American Publications, Pembroke, NC
VOL UME 24 NUM, IER I
Son e Highlights^ From 1996
Rose Marie Lowry- Townsend Makes HisMi&pia
in Seventh Congressional District Race I J:. mJ\
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Making liistor) fur I lie Seventh
Congressional Dislncl. Rose Marie
Lowry-Townscndotit-pollcd sc\cn
oilier Dpmocralic candidates to
capture the lead in the
Congressional House Race. Linm Townsend
cast Iv out distanced
the closest compclilior Mike
Mclniyre. with 1 I percent of the
vole to Melntyre's 2.1 percent.
These arc unofficial totals
Mclnlxrc received more \olcs m
ihc county than Lowry-Tovvnsend
but she out polled him in the
district
Loxvry-Townscnd ts flit
educator and has served as
President of the North Carolina
Association of Educators
Melntyrc.is an attorney from
ncarbv . L.umbcrton. Lowry
Townsend is ;i resident of
Pembroke
.Glenn Jcmigan of Favcttcvillc
came in third place with nineteen
percent oft he vote. George Brccec.
also of Fa> oltc\ ille and Tint Dunn
finished fourth and fifth place
while Wilmington attorney
Marcus Williams was sixth
Howard Grccnbnuni ofKurc Beach
BS
rccci\ cd one pereeni oi Ihc vole.
During primary elections if a
candidiilc docs not receive 40
percent of lhe vole, the next highest
vote getter may call for a run-ofT
election. At press lone there was
no announcement from Mclnluc
relative.to his decision Political
observers say that the possibillv is
high that Lowry-Townsend could
be in a run-olT on June 4
Black Elk Speaks at Carolina Civic Center
by Tom Squier
No. Black Elk isn't really going
to speak in Lunibcrton. but his
spnit will probably be there as
Robeson County's Premier
Historic center for the Performing
Arts presents this emolionallv
charged, intense vision. Black Elk
was a warrior and a medicine man
ofthcOglala Sioux who witnessed
the Battle of the Little Big Horn as
a teenage boy Black Elk watched
llie massacre of the Indians at
Wounded Knee. Black Elk Speaks
in Ins \ ision of the meaning of life
on this planet for all people
Black Elk died bclicv ing lie
had failed the Great Spirit and his
people " Hcy-Ora-hcy! Hcy-a-nliet'
Hey-a-a-hey1 Hey-a-?V-hcyl
Grandfather Great Spirit, once
mnrc.be hnldjne on earthand lean
to hear my Tccble \ oiee. You liv53"
lirst and you are older than all
pray er AH things belong to you?
llie two-leggcds. lite four-leggcds.
the wings of the air and all green
things that live. You have set the
powers of the four qua rtcrs to cross
each oilier the place is his holy
Day inanddav oui. forever you arc
the life of things." he prayed
' Again, and maybe the last time
on this earth.' I recall the great
v ision you sent me It may be thai
some little rool of Ihc sacred tree
still lives. Nourish it then, that it
may leaf and bloom and fill with
singing birds. Hear me. not Tor
myself, but for my people. I am
old. Hear me that they may once
more go back into the sacred hoop
and find the good the road, the
shielding tree*
Black Elk s words and his
dream were written down and
published in 1 932 by John G.
Nciliardl. poet-laureate. Since then
the book Black Elk Speaks has
been translated into many
languages and com cried into a
play, a testimony to the Native
American peoples and their
struggle with the seniors and the
expanding frontier This living
history lesson will be presented at
the Carolina. Civic Center at 315
N". ClicstnurSlrccl. in downtow n
Lambert on. across from the county
courtliousc^ftoin May 15-ISth ai
X Otlp.m. dnitdnMay IVtliat 2 30
p m.
Tickets arc: Adiills?$H Seniors
46. Students 45 and Children $1
Tickets arc now on sale ai.thc CCC
office. To make reserv ations, order
group rate tickets or request-more
information, call *>10-718-4.139
This project is sponsored in part by
Jerry Johnson Oldsmobile and
supported by a grant of the N.C
Arts Council
Black Elk Speaks has been
hailed as one of the most accurate
depictions ofthc Native American
struggle in the west and all who
have read the book or seen the
performance has been profoundly
moved Ncihardt refers to is as
"the book that would not die ." He
tells: It was my function to translate
the old man's story, not only in the
factual sense?for it was not the
facts that mattered most?but rather
to re-create in English the mood
and manner of the old man's
narrat i\ c This w as often a grttcli ng
and difficult task requiring much
patient effort and careful
questioning of the
interpreter Perhaps with his
message spreading meross the
world he has not failed "
Iflhiswcrca movie. I believed
would be referred to as a chick
flick.' the name git en to films
which touch the heart and activate
the tear ducts, so. ladies, be sure to
tuck a pack of klccnc v in your
purse or poqkct. Grown men do
not look each other in the eye too
long when they silently leave the
production for fear a tear will betray
their emotion.
Black Elk Speaks Once we
were happy in our own country
and we were seldom hungry for
then the two-lcggcds and the fourlcggcds
lived together like
relatives, and there was plenty for
them and Tor us But the Wasichus
came, and they made lilllc islands
for us and other little islands for
(he four leggeds. and always these
islands arc becoming smaller.for
around them surges the growing
Tood oflhe Wasichu. and it is dirty
with lies and greed
The publicists at Washingion
Square Press in I'Wcallcd Black
Elk Speaks "a book of legend, a
book-of personal vision I hat makes
the LSD trip seem pale b\
comparison, this is also the storv
of a people now almost totalis
dest roved, of their life on litis planet
and their hurmonv with the forces
of nature, andof Biack Flk hunsclf-w-arriorand
medicine man-born
at the end ofan era. and destined
to watch it fade.
This play is performed mostly
by Native Americans and its
production is itself a healing
process One access told me she is
noi starring on a stage in a theatre
she was once kept out of because
she is an Indian. You know the
play has lobe filled with emotion.
Yoii will feel it yourself
Cummings Beats
Locklear in District 5
Commissioner race
Newcomer Raymond
( nmmings easily defeated Ki-vcnr
< onimissioner Bobby Dean
I ocklear in the Disirici 5 nice
t nofl'ieiaj votes show that
( ummiiigs overcame Lockluar
wnli mi ovcivvlielmniK(>4 percent
ol the vole
(iiiiiiinngs vice chancellor of
student allatrs at Pembroke Slate
I 'niversily Ihnttkcd the volers of
District s for electing him and
staled that he felt that the people in
tl?c District iiisi wanted a change
Vickie Lock/ear, high vote
getter in Register of Deeds
Vickie Locklcnr a si.\ >c:ir
employee of lhc|*egislcr of Deeds
office oulpotfcd four oilier
candidates Unofficial tallies slum
llntf Locklcnr refceix cd die highest
number of voles cast in thai
election Lock lea r an Indian
received (>. 198. w hilcsccond place
finisher Billic Brill a while.
received 5.115 voles and Tom
Jones, a Black who iscniplovcd
with lite Robeson Couitlv "tax
Department came in third pi,ace
with 4.16'J voles (icncJones.also
Black was low vote getter in that
race A run ofTis also likclv in that
race
f . *-?-? - .
Jeff Moore overcomes Daniels
to become District Court Judge
Assistant District Atlorncx
William Jeffrey Moore, an Indian
and Assistant District Attorney
Judith Daniels, a Black run a close
race for District Conn Judge
Moore won handilv in that race
rcciving more than') (MM) volcss to
Daniels' more than 7.000
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Henry T. Locklear Day Honors
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Decorated Lumbee Veteran
by Tom Squier
Special to Carolina Indian I oice
On November 8, the Veterans Day
weekend was opened at South Hoke
Elementary School with a ceremony
honoringHenryT. Locklcar, an alumnus
of the school and the most highly
decorated Lumbce veteran of Vietnam.
Locklcar attended the school
when it was one of three Indian
Schools in the Hoke County School
.System and was called Hawkcyc
School First Sergeant, retired.
Locktear said he knew he wanted to
be a soldier shortly before gradual i ng
following a field trip to Fort Bragg
"There were no other iobs around
here for us in 1963. Dr. Martin Luther
King hadn't freed us (minorities)
then. I went in for financial reasons
and for a career. It was about the only
thing to do," Locklcar remembers.
"My principal, Mr. Hughes (Oxendinc)
took us to Fort Bragg I told
him I wanted to be a paratrooper and
he told me I was too small This
mentally motivated me to accept this
challenge," said Locklcar He joined
the Army in September of 1963,
shortly after graduating from
Hawkcyc High School Today, that
school has a new name, and Locklcat's
portrait and a plaque in his honor
hang in the school's entrance
The keynote speaker for the ceremony
was retirod Major General
Richard E. Davis who now lives in
Knoxville, Tennessee and came to
praise Locklear for his bravery and
nis dependability Davis said "To
day is extremely important I especially
congratulate the Hoke County
School Board for recognizing the
patriotism and heroism of Henry
Locklcar " When Locklear entered
the Army's 101st Airborne Division,
General Davis was his lieutenant
Later, they went to Vietnam together
where they spent many nights together
in the same foxhole because
Davis was the commander and
Locklcar was his radio communicator
"He became a hero He became a
great leader because he has character
That character was built right
here. The lesson is that character
counts " He told the children assembled
there that "You too can be a
hero similar to Henry if you work real
hard."
Henry T Locklcar's decorations
and awards include the Combat Infantry
Badge, Master Parachute
Badge National Defense Service
Medal, four Good Conduct Medals,
the Expert Infantry Badge, the Vietnamese
Cross of Gallantry, two
Bronze Starts for valor and two Silver
Stars, five Vietnam Service Medals,
a Vietnam Campaign Ribbon,
two Army Commendation medals
and a Meritorious Service Medal as
well as the Jungle Expert School
badge, Pathfinder award and Distinguished
Trooper Award Chairperson
of the Hoke County Commissioners
L.E. McLaughlin said: "Because
of men Like Henry T. Locklcar,
we have freedom today."
Locklcar's sister Wanda Cauldcr
sang "You Arc the Wind Beneath My
Wings" to Henry and Cauldcr said
that Henry was always her hero as a
child, filling the role of father for her
andhcrbrotners, taking them to school
and taking responsibilities like an
adult. She was not abit .surprised at his
success Today Locklcar operates his
own business and unlike many Vietnam
Veterans, he can still wear his
old uniform. He docs that regularly as
an Executive Officer of the Robeson
County Honor Guard which provides
honors a the funerals of veterans in
Robeson, Hoke and other surrotindingcountics
Jokingly, Henry Ixicklcar
started his speech by saying "When I
graduated, I was fivc-foot-six and
weighed a hundred and twenty-five
pounds Today, I am fivc-foot-six and
weigh two hundred (an exaggeration)
Lifes been good!" he declared He
dedicated his award to his mother and
tearfully continued "I'm giving a copy
of this award proclamation hack to ten
school," he remarked, "because I never
take nothing I can't give back "
Ixicklcar addressed the students^
and told them there were three things
he wanted them to always remember
and promise to keep "First, learn to
read You can do anything and go
anywhere if you learn to read." He
made the children promise to "read
one book for Henry Second, he said,
"Never, ever smoke cigarettes or
anything else Don't smoke dope and
don't drink beer Beer, whiskey .and
dope will take your courage away "
The third thing Henry Locklcar
asked of the students was to "Never
call a person a dirty name because of
their color YonJujow what kind of
names I'rrt talking about, he said
"Don't ever call a person a racial
name It hurts and it takes away
from your dignity too " HH also said
that "if yon ever get knocked down
in life get back up (Jet back up.
knock the dirt off and gel going
again " He turned to the teachers
present and reminded them how
harsh discipline was in school was
when he was growing up and that
times had changed "Educators,yon
have to have persuasive Icadeiship
today because they took all vour
authority awav "
I oday. Henry T l.ocklear isonc
of the most respect members of his
community and is almost embarrassed
to speak about his medals I Ic
would rather be acting as scoutmaster
or honoring other veterans The
Certificate of Honor for Heroism
and Leadership from the County
Commissioners reads in part
"WHEREAS, he has earned the
admiration and high regard of those
w ith whom he has come in contact
and the affection of his fellow man
(who are proud to call hi m 'friend' or
'pal') regardless of race, color, or
creed BE IT RESOLVED thai this
certificate of honor is issued in recognition
of the superb leadership
and heroism of Henry Thurmond
Locklcar"