Thursday, September 23, 1976
UP FROM DUST AND DARKNESS
Installment 2
Chapter 1: In The Beginning
THE GREAT SPIRIT
IN CREATION
And then He spoke. His voice
like thunder,
Rippling through the night.
As outer space was ripped
asunder.
Now, let there
Far-flung moons and suns
went spinning
From His mighty hand.
Day was born,
beginning.
and life,
Heeded Him command.
Far-flung worlds, he hung on
nothing.
In a spangled sky.
Suns and moons then shone
from nothing.
Save His word on high.
Let there be! Thus He spoke
being
Into things to be.
First with night, then light for
seeing,
He blessed you and me.
Let there belThus atoms,
broken,
Orderly became;
For that let there be was
spoken
In His Own Great Name!
His stout Words are packed
with power.
Nothing could resist!
By that same Almighty Power,
All things now exist.
-Lew Barton, 1972-
When man first set foot on
that half of the world called the
Western Hemisphere, i
prising North, South and Cen
tral America, he was already
fully developed, physiological
ly, not just a sub-man, accord
ing to H.G. Wells (in his
OatlineofHistory, N.Y., 1956)
and many other authorities
The Old World, not the New.
statesWells, “was the nursery
of the sub-races of mankind
And surely archeoligical r
search seems to confirm this,
The retreat of the Great Ice
Age left in its wake, a veritable
wonderland of human
delights, a “New World’’
comprised of 16,000,000
square miles of mostly soft,
rich soil, fairly bursting with
life and color, replete with all
the botanical delights the
-By Lew Barton-
human heart can imagine.
This “new world,’’ which was
really old to the Indians, is
made up of two entire con
tinents. North and South
America, with a joining strip of
land which is called Central or
Middle America. Only a man
made waterway, the Panama
Canal, divides one continent
from the other, and it is
located as the narrowest ex
panse of land in the land strip.
Thus man was able to join the
Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean
and eliminate thousands of
miles around the continents.
This most valuable link, built
by the U.S., is a coveted prize
today; and there are currently
people of the world who are
pressuring this country to
yield up this mammoth pos
session to them, an eventuality
that isn't likely to occur.
This, then, is the New
World-'Orthe Western Hemis
phere, as it is more accurate- ►
ly called. Collectively, this is
America, the territory solely
inhabited by American Indians
at the approach of Columbus.
Of it in pre-historic times.
Jenny Laughlin Cloud, an
Indian writer states; “When
man first set foot on the
Western Hemisphere in the
fog of creation, ‘in the mist of
potent growth,’ as the Zuni
Indians describe it, he saw
before him a land covered with
flowering plants and towering
trees, growing in rich, soft
soil...a green continent ex
ploding with life and color...a
veritable of Eden.” Until the
latter part of the 1400’s,
however, no one in the Old
World, as the rest of the world
other than America is some
times called, had any know
ledge of the New. North, South
and Central America might
just as well have been a distant
planet, such as Mars, for all
the Europeans knew. It was
not until the latter part of the
15th century, A,D., that these
vastly differently worlds final
ly met, and in a word, collided.
It all began-the eternal ques
tioning, the everlasting exploi
tation, the inumerable mis
understandings and all the
rest of it—at exactly 2 o’clock
on that fateful morning of
October 12, 1492. For that is
the exact date and the exact
time that Christopher Colum
bus, an Italian navigator sail
ing three Spanish sailing ves
sels, manned by crews totaling
120 frightened, hungry, sea-
weary sailors, first sighted
American soil -- presumably
that ofWatling’s Island, in the
Bahamas group. And things
have not since been the same.
Who are they? the men of the
Columbus expedition must
have wanted to know when
first they set eyes on th
scantily-clad but cool, com
fortable, easy-going people of
the area, understandably star
ing at them with expressions
of awe and wonderment. Even
as the strange new-comers,
“pale” of face and in appear
ance like no one they had ever
seen, must have stared right
back, equally baffled, won
dering the same thing about
the natives.
Columbus thought he had the
answer, from his side of the
puzzle. Believing himself to be
in India, he accordingly called
them “Indians,” although
they had little in common, if
anything, with the real Indians
of India. They have been
called that ever since, though
not by themselves, except as a
tool of communication when
conversing with or in the
presence of non-Indians. As
Richard Lacourse, head of the
American Indian Press Asso
ciation pointed out some time
ago when he appeared in the
"Spirit and Substance” pro
gram of Pembroke State Uni
versity. Indians refer to them
selves simply as “people” in
conversation among themsel
ves. It is “the Cherokee
people,” “the Sioux people,”
“the Lumbee people,” or as
we sometimes say in the
Robeson Indian community,
"our people.”
To distinguish the Indians of
the Americas from the real
Indians of India, the term has
been changed to “American
Indians, and this has some
times been shortened to
Amerinds, but the formal title
preferred by most Indians of
the New World is “Native
Americans.”
It has been said of Columbus
(by Burke and Chase in their
Ladder of History), that when
Columbus left Europe, he
didn’t know where he was
going. When he reached Amer
ica, he didn’t know where he
was. And when he went back
to Europe, he didn’t know
where he had been. And
Samuel Eliot Morrison (in The
Oxford History of the Amer
ican People) calls the discov
ery of Columbus, the “worst
mistake of history.” If so,
however, Columbus must have
learned very quickly, because
he planted a number of
colonies in the New World
shortly thereafter.
It may be safely maintained
that the history of America, as
most Americans have come to
know it', began with the
coming of Columbus. The
history of race relations in the
Western Hemisphere began
with Columbus and the Ameri
can Indians. These relations
seem to have faired well in the*-
beginning. It has been re
corded that the Indians at first
regarded the strange men with
the huge ships and bright,
billowing sails, driven by the
very wind, as gods calling
upon them for a visit, and
treated them accordingly. Col
umbus was ecstatic in his
praise of the smiling, beck
oning New World and its
generally friendly people, “a
country “ripe for discovery
and settlement.” He wrote
that the natives were “very
inielligeni” and "a loving
people without covethousness
and fit for anything, they love
(heir neighbors as themselves,
and their speech is the sweet
est and gentlest in the world.”
(To be continued.)
LRDA
Receives
Grant
Lumbee Regional Develop
ment Association received a
grant award from the U.S.
Office of Education/ HEW
Right to Read Office to admin
ister a Reading Academy
program in Robeson County.
There will be (3) Reading
Academies established. The
location of the (3) academies
will be Smyrna, Fairgrove, and
Smithtown. The program will
provide reading instruction,
motivational counseling and -
supportive services for (75)
seventy-five functionally illi
terate adults and youth and(30)
thirty homebound functionally
illiterate youth and adults.
Individualized instructional
materials will be utilized to
improve the educational level
of the project participants to
more effectively cope with
existing problems and allevi
ate barriers which hinder
self-improvement. Cultural en
richment activities and work
shops will be organized
throughout the Program year
in areas relevant to the needs
and interest of the program
participants in order to broad
en their understanding and
knowledge of those areas,
which will enable them to cope
with everyday situations more
effectively.
Project staff will consist of (1)
Project Director. (1) Curricu
lum developer. (1) Secretary/
Bookkeeper. (3) Recruiter Co
aches, and (3) Teacher
Monistors (part-time).
L.R.D.A. would like to ex
tend a special invitation to
community people living in the
Smyrna, Fairgrove, and Smith
town communities 16 years
and over interested in learning
to read and write to partici
pate in the Right to Read-
Reading Academy Program.
More detailed information con
cerning contacts, program
start-up date, time, etc, will be
announced later.
Page 7. The Corolir o Indian Voice
Mayors Proclaim National Beauty Salon Week
Merit
Exams con
be
scheduled
The toll-free WATS lines,
through which North Caro
linians schedule Competitive
Service (State Merit) Exami
nations, will be in operation
again by Monday, September
27.
This announcement came
from Alfred B. Boyles, director
of State Personnel, after the
Advisory Budget Committee
authorized his office to re
instate the service, which will
be paid by federal funds
through June 30.
The WATS lines were dis
connected September 2 as a
result of budget-paring efforts
by the General Assembly in
their last session in May.
However, a legislative budget
committee had inadvertently
cut out funiis for the toll-free
telephone service, leaving no
money to handle scheduling
the State Merit Exams.
Therefore, Boyles explained,
the exams would have had to
be discontinued until an alter
native for scheduling was
found. With the restoration of
the phone lines, however, test
scheduling can resume im
mediately.
Persons outside the Raleigh
area may call 81X1-662-7094
free of charge to arrange to
take a State Merit exam.
Those in the Raleigh area may
call 829-3850.
To determine which test one
should take, a person should
first contact a local office of
Employment Security Com
mission, or one of the eight
Competitive Testing Centers
in the stae, located in Ashe
ville, Boone, Winston-Salem,
Charlotte, Raleigh, Fayette
ville, Greenville and Wilming
ton. A Competitive Service
test is required for getting a
job in many agencies receiving
federal funds.
Mrs. Betty Oxendine omerves
as Pembroke Mayor Reggie
Strickland signs the proclama
tion proclaiming the week of
October 3 National Beauty
Salon Week.
The week is proclaimed in
the name of the 64,00 mem
bers of the National Hair
dressers and Cosmetologists
Association.
The slogan of the National
Beauty Salon Week is “Your
Hairdresser Does it Best.”
Mrs. Oxendine is president of
the local Hairdressers and
Cosmetologists Association.
Lumberton Mayor Clifford
Bullard performs the same
task in Lumberton proclaiming
the week of October 3 National
Beauty Salon Week. Mrs.
Oxendine looks on. [Bruce
Barton photo]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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RED SPRINGS"At a meeting
of the Nominating Committee
of Lumbee River Electric Mem
bership Corp. (LREMC) here,
Thursay, September 16, it was
unanimously agreed to place
in nomination thenames of the
four directors whose terms
expire this year, and one
nomination by petition was
received.
Other noitihawns can be
made by fcbtion over a
minimum of 15 signatures of
. LREMC menber/consumers
up to 25 days prior to the
Annual meeting which will be
held Wednesday, Oct. 27,
beginning at 7 p.m. in Pem
broke State University’s Per
forming Arts Center. Pem
broke, N.C. Nominations can
also be made from the floor of
the meeting.
Incumbent President of the
LREMC Board of Directors,
A.F. Home of Rt. 3, Maxton,
was renominated to represent
Area 1 including Maxton,
Alfordsville, Thompson, Union
and RowlandWard ClarkofRt.
3, Maxton, who was nominat
ed by petition, will also run in
Area 1. Secretary, James H.
Hammonds of Rt. 3, Lum
berton will be up for re-
election to represent Area V
including Lumber Bridge, ^
Parkton, St. Pauls, East and
West Howellsville and Saddle
tree. Board members Alton V.
Dudley of Rt. 2, Raeford, and
Thomas Wade Bethea of Rt. 1.
Maxton, were also renomi
nated. Dudley represents Area
VI which includes all of Hoke
County east N.C.211, and
Bethea is one of three at large
directors with no designated
area of representation.
LREMC is a member-owned
corporation providing electri
city and service to rural areas
of Cumberland, Hoke, Robe
son and Scotland counties. The
membership elects 12 direct
ors to represent them at
regular monthly meetings. 9
directors are elected from
designated service areas, and
three are elected at large.
SiraDgeSiickup
A man walkM into the dentist's
office with a towei wrapped
around his jaw and knotted on top
of his head; it covered most of his
face. "My word.” laughed the
elderly dentist, "I haven't seen
anyone with a toothache wearing
a getup like that for 40 years.”
"What Toothache,” was the gar
bled reply, "thisisastickup.''
Can’t Win
Hear about the employee who
prayed for a raise? The boss
heard about it and fired the poor
guy for going over his head.
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A woman marrying her fourth
husband was greeted by an old
friend who remembered the first
three: "The first was a banker,
the second an actor, the third a
minister — and now you've mar
ried an undertaker. How is it that
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ATLANTA — Pembroke State
University’s cross country team
finished second among 19 teams
and the Braves’ Garry Henry, a
freshman from Australia, was
fourth individually in the Stone
Mountain Road Race held here
Saturday.
Henry ran a 24:04 time over
the five-mile, 20-yard course.
His time broke the old course
record of 24;13 as did the mark
of the first place finisher, Louis
Blount of Appalachian, who had
a 23:56.
The team winning the meet
was Furman with 84 points.
Trailing Pembroke in order
were: 3. Auburn 120, 4. Georgia
142, 5. Appalachian 149, 6.
Brevard 152, 7. Clemson 171, 8.
Cumberland 198, 9. Georgia
Tech 255 and 10. Western
Carolina 359.
The finishes of the other
Braves’ runners in the meet
were: 9. Jeff Moody 24:36, 18.
James Plummer 25:03 ; 51. Pete
Gibson25:54; 56. Ricky Jackson
25:56 ; 71. Eric Redding 26:18;
83. George Aiken 26:84 ; 85. Dan
Ryberg 26:36 ; 91. James Vogt
26:48 ; 98. David Eskins 27:00;
and 101. Wayne Broadhead
27:04.
The best Pembroke has ever
done in the meet was winning it
in ‘73 when Victor Elk, PSU All-
American, was, second
individually. But Elk’s best
time there was 24:24, meaning
Henry has already eclipsed
that.
Henry led the first 2Vi miles.
“I thought Henry did a real
good job,” said Coach Ed Crain
of PSU. ‘‘He may have gone out
too fast. But overall I thought
our team did real well.”
PSU will be host to its own
invitational cross country meet
Saturday.
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