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Bruce Barton
UNC-Pembroke seeks new image
PEMBROKE-There's a wonderful article in Wednesdays (Apr.
4) Favetteville Observer entitled UNCP seeks new image. I
guess that's needed but one statement caused me to run up my
red flag. The article noted that Chancellor Allen Meadors wants
the university to "break away from the label of an Indian school.
He said yNCP welcomes all students, including Indians, from all
over the country."
That's good ... up to a point. I don't see anyone, however,
talking about Fayetteville State University backing away from its
black roots, nor have I read anything lately where UNC-Chapel
, Hill, for instance, is decrying its white identification or heritage.
Before 1 cast my aspersion though, let me say that I think Dr.
Meadors is generally doing a wonderful job at UNC-P. He is
open, and interested in collaboration. One of his suggestions,
The Speaker's Series, and the revised concert series, have been
wonderful, and well received by the community. I look forward,
for instance, to hearing Col. Oliver North on the 10th at the Givens
PAC. And 1 cannot remember when I enjoyed anything as
much as musicians Doc Watson, David Holt and Richard Watson
(Doc's grandson) recently in concert at the Givens PAC.
But I believe Dr. Meadors doth protest too much about the
Indian tag. The university, in my opinion, needs to actively recruit
Indian students big time. UNC-P is losing many of the best
of the Indian students to Chapel Hill and other schools near and
far. I don't see many programs specifically tailored to Indian
students at UNC-P, nor do I see recruiters actively pursuing them.
They ought to!
Yes, UNC-P needs a new image, but the school must never
forget, nor shunt aside, it's glorious "Indian" past. Croatan Normal
School, the forerunner of UNC-P, and all of its antecedents,
came into being because the then powers that be would not provide
an education for Indian children. Period. That fact is why
we now have UNC-Pembroke. The schools' Indian past and
present and future should be showcased, highlighted, and treated
as a strength, not necessarily a hindrance as the article would
have one infer.
I can never repay "die college" for all it has done for me.
This Indian is a proud UNC-P alumnus, and fervently supports
and commends the school to all, especially Indians.
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The first issue of the weekly newspaper, The Carolina Indian
Voice was published on January 17, 1973, by then editor,
owner and founder, Bruce Barton with a $500 personal loan.
It has a proud history of continuous publication, having never
missed an issue since its inception. Brace's sister, Connee
Brayboy, the current editor, is the only person to have
enjoyed full-time employment since the newspaper's inception.
A brother, Garry Lewis Barton came to work full-time
in 1973 and ended his affiliation with the newspaper in 1985;
its founder, Brace Barton left to further his education shortly
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by Dr. StanKnick, Director, UNCP Native American Resource Center
Once upon a time in America
there was a place called "the Indian
territory." The term was not used to
refer to all the lands which had truly
been occupied by Native Americans
? that would have to include
everywhere in North and South
America. "The Indian territory" was
used to refer to that place to which
the United States government
removed Indian people.
"The Indian territory" began as a
larger area, but eventually came to
cover almost all of what is now
Oklahoma (by the way, Oklahoma
means "red people" in the Muskogean
Choctaw language). After the United
Stales purchased from the French what
was called "Louisiana" (in 1803),
including all the lands from the Gulf of
Mexico to Canada and from the
Mississippi River to the Rocky
Mountains, someone came up with
the idea of moving the Indian people
who remained in the eastern United
States to these new lands (ultimately
removals would happen not only from
the east, but from other parts of the
U. S. as well). The very next year the
U. S. Congress enacted a law which
made it "legal" to remove Indian people
from their traditional homelands. By
1830 Congress felt that it was
necessary to act again to speed the
removal process, and so it passed the
"Indian Removal Act."
The lands of the Louisiana
Purchase lying west of what had be
come Missouri and Arkansas came 10
be known as "the Indian territory,"
and soon a hundred thousand Indians
were "resettled" there. The treaties
which accompanied the removal of
these people typically called for these
lands to belong to the Indians forever.
The treaties often said that these lands
would never become part of, nor under
the jurisdiction of, any State without
the permission of the Native
Americans. Among those removed to
"the Indian territory" by 1889 were
members of the following nations:
Quapaw, Peoria, Modoc, Shawnee,
Ottawa, Wyandot, Seneca? Osage,
Kansa, Pawnee, Cheyenne, Arapaho,
Oto, Caddo, Sauk and Fox,
Potawatomi, Wichita, Comanche,
Kiowa, Apache, and the so-called "Five
Civilized Tribes" (Choctaw,
Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole and
Cherokee).
The largest parts of "the Indian
territory" were given to the largest of
the removed Indian nations, the
Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and
Cherokee. As it turned out, the tribal
governments of these nations (plus the
Seminole) chose to support the
Confederacy in the Civil War, a
decision which would prove costly.
After the Civil War, the federal
government proclaimed that the
treaties it had with these Indian
nations were no longer valid because
these five nations had sided with the
South. New treaties were developed
which took lands away from these
nations.
With the passage of the "General
Indian Allotment Act" in 1887, most
of the removed Indian nations began
to lose further lands from "the Indian
territory." In 1889 the government set
up a federal court over the Indians at
Muskogee, and opened the so-called
"unassigned" lands in the middle of
"Indian territory" to settlement by nonIndians.
In 1890, the government
established Oklahoma Territory, and
by 1893 the only lands still officially
part of "the Indian territory" were those
held onto by the "Five Civilized Tribes"
and the small reservations in the
extreme northeast of what is now
Oklahoma (Quapaw, Peoria, Modoc,
Shawnee, Ottaw^, Wyandot and
Seneca). By 1898 allotment was
underway even in these lands, and
"the Indian territory* faded more
rapidly. Despite the efforts of some
leaders of the "Five Civilized Tribes"
to set up a separate state for
themselves in 1905 (it would have
been called "Sequoyah"), the state of
Oklahoma was established in 1907
and "the Indian territory" slipped into
the history books.
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campus of The University of North
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Multiple award-winning artist
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Givens Performing Arts Center on
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