Grant Funds Philanthropy
Initiative for N.C. Indians
RALEIGH- The N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs has received a S25.000
grant from the Warner foundation to help establish a public charity to benefit
Indian education efforts in North Carolina.
A public charity was proposed as a result of the commission's recent strategic
plamiing process, which revealed the N.C. Indians can no longer rely on
increasingly scarce state and federal funds to promote economic and social
development. Although its exact form has not been determined, the new charity
could potentially channel hundreds of thousands of dollars into activates
benefitting North Carolina's Indian population, now numbering almost 100.000.
The grant is helping to lay the groundwork for the charity by supporting the
local leadership-training component of the N.C. Indian Philanthropy Initiative.
"This statewide project is the first of its kind to promote cooperation and
involvement in philanthropy among the commission and the tribes." said Greg
Richardson, commission director
Richardson says that North Carolina's Indians lack the organizational infrastructure
to compete for funds being made available for minority causes by
large national foundations as well as potential financial contributions from
Indians and other who wish to support efforts to build stronger Indian communities
in North Carolina.
The Warner Foundation funding will provide intensive training for three or
four grass-roots leaders representing each of the 11 state-recognized tribes
and organizations. The training will focus on the values, methods and practices
of modem philanthropy and facilitate discussions about how philanthropy
can best promote Indian education through scholarships and grants.
By the end of the process. North Carolina's Indians will have fully trained
leaders who are educated about philanthropy practices and can serve as local
leaders and organizers of philanthropy-related activities. The training will
support the development of committees within each tribe that will maintain an
active connection between the tribe and the new statewide public charity.
Seven state-recognized tribes are indigenous to North Carolina. They are
the Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee. Haliwa-Saponi, Indians of Person
County. Lumbee, Meherrin and Waccamaw-Siouan. In addition, four major
urban Indian organizations serve the American Indian populations of Charlotte.
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A mother of history
BY JON ELLISTON
Thelma Clark's death of a heart attack July 7 in a Lumberton
hospital didn't attract much notice, considering how closely she
was tied to one of North Carolina's most controversial figures.
Clark, who was 67 when she died, grew up dirt poor in
Richmond County and quit school during eighth grade to spend
more time working in cotton fields. She spent much of her life
scraping her way up and supporting her family, and later became
a nurse. She raised three children, mostly by herself. Her son,
Eddie Hatcher, the renegade folk hero recently convicted of
murder, was the one who kept her busiest.
Those who've followed Hatcher's tragic trajectory?from the
quixotic takeover of a newspaper office in 1988 to the 1999
drive-by shooting for which he was convicted in May of this
year?may remember Clark. She was the grandmotherly lady
seated in courtrooms, staring intently through thick glasses at the
prosecutors, judges and juries that weighed her son's fate. She
was the one cloistered by Hatcher supporters or sometimes
standing alone, telling reporters that her son had been framed and
that something was rotten in Robeson County.
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Defense Committee remember her as one of their own.
"We kind of saw her like a young person because of the spirit she
had," says John Johnson, a 21-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill student
who spent many a night camped out at Clark's house during
Hatcher's trials. "We got energy from her."
Helping Hatcher defend himself was a full-time job, but Clark
somehow also found time to agitate for other prisoners she
believed were wronged by the system. "She was fighting for
everybody," Johnson says. "Not just her son."
Clark seemed resigned to a life of continually butting heads with
the authorities. But even though her victories were rare and
small, "her spirits were always strong," says Ginger Ammerman,
Clark's daughter, "and for many years she had accepted the path
Eddie had chosen."
Prison officials allowed Hatcher to view Clark's body. Restrained
by handcuffs, he asked his sister to help him place a Native
American medicine bag on his mother's chest. Clark's children
brought a wreath with a ribbon that read, "A mother of history."
These were small tokens of gratitude for a woman who had gone
to giant lengths to secure fair, treatment for her son. Last fall,
when Hatcher was preparing his defense in his murder trial, I
asked him where he looked for encouragement.
"My momma's always been a key figure in keeping my faith up
and my hope," he answered.
Thelma Clark kept her faith in Hatcher, and her hope for justice,
longer than most people have.
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In Loving Memory
of
Anthony Morgan
The Master's Bouquet
The Master walked in his Garden
Plucking flowers along the way,
He plucked one of my loved ones,
To add to his bouquet
My heart at first was broken
At the loss of one so dear;
But the tears 1 shed just washed my eyes,
So 1 saw his way more clear.
My Lord has a need for just this one.
For the pattern He has in mind:
But it's hard for fhe rest of us to see
Why we must be left behind.
Perhaps we are not ready to go just yet
We may need to ripen more
To reach the full blown fragrance
My Lord is waiting for.
To each, give forth a fragrance
To each we chance to meet
We should each be trying day by day
To make our fragrance sweet.
So I'm going to try my very best
To be loving andLkind each day
So at last I'll be counted worthy
To be part of my Master's Bouquet
Love
Mom, Dad, Brother and Sisters
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Anthony was bom July 12, 1970 and
departed August 26,2000
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