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Powwow celebrates
Native American life
Dance contest
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BY ALLIE ROSENBAUM
STAFF WRITER
Fetzer Gym usually is home
to pickup basketball games, but
Saturday it transformed into a
modern celebration of Native
American heritage.
The 20th Annual Carolina
Indian Circle powwow brought
together students of Native
American descent and those who
wanted to learn more about it.
Powwows traditionally united
tribes and non-Native Americans
into an atmosphere where they
could showcase their heritage and
talents, and Saturday’s event was
no exception.
“We think it is really important
to have an annual powwow on cam
pus,” said Brandi Brooks, president
of the Carolina Indian Circle. “It is a
way to let the campus and surround
ing community see, feel, smell, hear,
taste and touch our history.”
This year the powwow also served
as a dance competition, with differ
ent groups performing traditional
tribal dances to the rapid beating
of drums. Dressed in ornate head
dresses and leather moccasins, chil
dren and teenagers stomped and
chanted as their ancestors had done
for thousands of years.
Toys and candy were provided to
all of the children performers and a
small cash award was given to the
dancers who took first place in the
teen division, Brooks said.
Although the competition might
have been what drew some to the
event, the primary purpose of the
powwow was to educate the UNC
community about the presence of
Native Americans on campus, said
junior Ashley Oxendine, the pow
wow committee chairwoman.
“We are the minority of minori
ties on campus,” said Ashley’s sister,
senior Sheena Oxendine, Native
American program coordinator.
“We represent less than 1 percent
of people on campus.”
Brooks said there are a handful
more than 200 Native American
students at UNC, including under
graduate and graduate students, as
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the Women's Fancy Dance in Fetzer Gym during Saturday's powwow.
Because that number has grown
from about 10 in the mid-19705,
UNC created an American Indian
Center in September to serve as a
hub for that student population.
There now is a search underway
for a director to lead the new cen
ter. After a national search, group
leaders have narrowed their choic
es to three candidates.
Brooks said she is confident that
any of the candidates will be a strong
addition to the campus group.
“We really just want to break
down the stereotype that most peo
ple have about Native Americans,”
Ashley Oxendine said. “People seem
to think that Native Americans only
live on reservations and ride horses
with their bow and arrows.”
Despite small numbers, Native
Americans still have a significant
News
presence on campus and continue to
grow in their impact, Brooks said.
The walkway between the two
parts of the Student Union was
designed by Native American
Synora Lynch.
And the Native American pres
ence has reached classrooms, as pro
fessor Tol Foster teaches three classes
on Native American literature.
“It is important that students
know we are just like them,”
Brooks said. “We live in the same
dorm as everyone else, wear the
same clothes and just happen to
be Native American.”
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Morrison s prized play
BY PHILLIP CROOK
STAFF WRITER
The theatrical adaptation of Toni
Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel “The Bluest Eye” premiered
on the Play Makers Repertory
Company stage Saturday night in a
production that promises to be just
as stirring and thought-provoking
as the book.
Play Makers presents “The Bluest
Eye” through March 25 in the Paul
Green Theatre in the Center for
Dramatic Art. Tickets range from
$lO to S3O.
Adapted for the stage by Lydia
R. Diamond, “The Bluest Eye”
is the story of 11-year-old Pecola
Breedlove’s struggle to understand
the disparity between her brown
skin and eyes and the Caucasian,
blue-eyed ideal of beauty in 1940s
Ohio.
Tony Award-winning director
Trezana Beverley said the play
essentially is about self-esteem and
the universal need to understand
your own self-worth, a theme,
Beverley said, that “crosses all color
lines.”
The title derives from Pecola’s
obsession with blue eyes and from
her belief that, if she had her own
pair, she finally would be accepted
by the world around her.
“It’s so hard to adapt a novel
to a play,” said Joseph Haj,
Play Makers producing artistic
director. “But this adaptation is
utterly stage-worthy it’s bril
liantly theatrical.”
Morrison’s 1970 novel immedi
ately made literary waves for its
controversial subject matter, espe
cially a scene in which Pecola’s
father rapes her.
Beverley said that the book is
edgy and sometimes difficult to
read, but that she liked the trans
formational power of its themes
and the substance of the charac
ters.
“Diamond managed to capture
the essence of the book,” Beverley
said.
“I thought I could flesh it out
and add to it onstage.”
Beverley brought the script to
the attention of Play Makers when
the company was planning its
2006-07 season. She received the
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Georgia Southern, Allison Reeves and Danika Williams play as Frieda,
Claudia and Pecola in Play Makers Repertory Company's "The Bluest Eye."
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Dates: Wednesday through March 25
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script from her former agency in
New York, which also represented
Diamond.
“They thought it would be
a wonderful artistic marriage,”
Beverley said.
Before the official opening
Saturday, Play Makers presented
three working preview shows, in
which the cast and crew made
minor adjustments based on audi
ence response.
But Beverley said that the pre
view audiences responded posi
tively, and that she didn’t feel the
need to change anything.
She said preview shows also are
important because cast members
don’t know how a show really will
go until they perform it for the first
time.
“Theater is such a ritualistic
experience once you get the play
out you need to add an audience,”
she said.
“The actors don’t do it for them
selves.”
The director said she was hap
pily surprised by the high turnout
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of the preview audiences, which
were largely composed of college
aged students.
Kristen Lattimore, a freshman
sports and exercise science major,
went to the Thursday night preview
as part of her DRAM 120 class.
She said the most emotionally
challenging part of the play for her
was the sexual molestation scene.
“It was amazing but hard to
watch,” Lattimore said.
“To relate to that, to think about
being in that situation, was diffi
cult.”
Beverley said that she under
stands that these elements of the
story are challenging, but that she
thinks they are effective to get peo
ple talking about difficult or taboo
subjects.
She said one of the main rea
sons she wanted to bring the play
to Chapel Hill was because she
thought the community could
relate well to the story’s struggles
with complex racial themes.
“While this play is on campus, I
hope students take advantage of it,”
Beverley said.
“It’s a good play for really great
discussions.”
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