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• VOLUME 5, NUMBER 13 PEMBROKE, N.C. THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1977
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INDIAN EDUCATION IN
ROBESON COUNTY AND
ELSEWHERE
By Bruce Barton
grants on a formula basis to local school long and hard in seeing the legislation
systems for (I) planning and taking other through Congress and headed the Indian
steps leading to the development of Education Desk in the U.S. Department of
programs specifically designed to meet the Education of HEW through the program’s
special educational needs of Indian infancy,
children...Port B authorizes discretionary
grants to Indian tribes, organizations, as Most knowledgable educators in the
well as state and local educational United States give Ms. Schierbeck the
agencies, for use in special programs and lion’s share of credit for the Indian
projects to improve educational programs Education Act of 1972.
and opportunities for Indian children... Port
C provides assistance to state and local Ms. Schierbeck resides in the
educational agencies and to Indian tribes, Washington, D.C. area and most recently
institutions, and organizations to support headed the task force on Indian education
planning, pilot, and demonstrate projects to for the American Indian Policy Review
plan for, test, and demonstrate the Commission,
effectiveness of programs for providing
adult education to Indians. Port D provides Another local educator who worked on the
for the establishment of a bureau level Indian Education act of 1972 was Purnell
officeof Indian Education within the U.S. Swett, who Is now the Associate
OfficeofEducation,DepartmentofHealth, Superintendent of the Robeson County
Education and Welfare. Port D also School Unit. Swett, who at one time was
established the National Advisory Council the Acting Deputy Commissioner at the
on Indian Education comprising fifteen U.S. Department of Education, was
... members who are Indians or Alaskan involved in developing the regulations and
is a Congressional declaration of policy natives and who are charged with advisory edicts that are embodied in the Act.
recognition of the spiecial educational and evaluatory responsibilities relative to
governmental programs affecting Indian
interests.
ditor's Note: This is the be9inriing of o
rfes of ortfdes on Indion Education in
ibeson County ond elsewhere. The
ties will run until we explore the pros
id cons ond ins and outs of Indian
lucotlon to our satisfaction.
he series, more then likely, will
Jude some editorlol Judgments
ade by the writer, Bruce Barton, who
the ^itor of the Corolino Indian
lice.
/e Invite your comments ond
linions on Indian Educotion in
beson County and ebewhere.
SOME PRELIMINARY NOTES AND
[ A LITTLE BACKGROUND...
Whot is The indion
Educotion Act of 1972?
ipds of Indian students in the United
tes.
n June 23, 1972, the Indian Education
t of 1972 was signed into law as Title IV,
colic Law 92-318, Education
lendments of 1972, thus creating new
icational opportunities for Indian
'Idren and adults.
LOCAL INDIANS PLAYED A
MAJOR PART IN THE
INDIAN EDUCATION ACT OF 1972
Since the beginning of the lEA program, a
Lumbee Indian has served on the National
Advisory Council on Indian Education.
Mrs. Karma Hunt Torklep served on the
council for a number of years.
Now serving on the council is Earl Hughes
people
and places
a n d f h i n g s
RUMMAGE SALE PLANNED
The Pembroke Jaycettes will sponsor a
rummage sale on Saturday, April 2,
between the hours of lO a.m. and4 p.m. at
Pembroke Tire and Recapping Service on
Union Chapel Road. Everyone is invited to
attend.
REVIVAL PLANNED
and 5,000-meter runner Garry Henry, all of
whom won in last week's triangular meet
between PSU, State and Virginia will lead
the Braves.
Last year Shipman was the star of the
event with a discus throw of 183 feet, 1
inch-seven feet past the previous N. S.
State track record and 22 feet, 10 inches
past the previous meet record.
Revival services will begin at Tabernacle Shipman warmed up for the meet with a
Baptist Church on Sunday, April 3, 1977. throw of 169 feet, 10 in. in last week’s
Services will run nightly through April triangular meet at N. C. State.
10th beginning at 7:30 p.m. There will be
different speakers nightly and special
music. The pastor. Rev. Nash Locklear, ROWLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT PTA
extends a cordial invitation to everyone. TO MEET
The Rowland School District PTA will
meet in the Rowland High School
Auditorium on Monday, April 4, 1977 at 7
p.ni. The program will include a panel
discussion on the current grading system.
"END OF TRAIL." o fomous Indian
pointing by James Fraser, is depicted
here in orrowheods collected from
Robeson County by Dr. Bobby D.
HelenSchierbeck,ilaughteroflhelateand Oxendine, who is a principal in the Hoke U.S Indion
.-J r .a. ~ _ . . _ ^ in \l//^h nnr->n PVT THa
respected Lacy Maynor and Mrs. Maynor, County School System. He was appointed
who still resides in Pembroke, is earlier this year,
iis Act provides Federal financial considered one of the country’s leading
Jistance to public school systems, as well experts on Indian Education. She worked Continued next week
jO Indian community schools on or near
jrvations, for the purpose of planning,
yeloping, and carrying out elementary
jl secondary school programs specifically
igned to meet the special educational
ds of Indian children; and to Indian
es and organizations, as well as to State
' local educational agencies, for special
,ining, pilot, and demonstration projects
programs to improve educational
-•ortunities for Indian children and
Its. In addition, provisions for an Office
ndian Education were authorized, and a
ional Advisory Council on Indian
ication was created to provide policy
ction and guidance to the Congress and
'idvise the Commissioner of Education
[i respect to the administration of any
gram in which Indian children or adults
:icipate or benefit.
Health Service in Woshington, D.C. The
stone of the bottom left is o hordowoy
point, ne of the oldest types of the
region. It is opproximotely 10,000 B.P.
(before present) or 8,000 D.C.,
according to Dr. David A. McLean,
visiting professor of anthropology of
Pembroke State University.
The originol work is on display at PSU's
Native Americon Resource Center.
PEMBROKE TO HAVE
COURTHOUSE
EFFECTIVE JULY 1
John L. Carter,
A Profile
le Indian Education Act of 1972,
■efore, has been designed to help Native
ericans, both on and off reservations, to
|ize enriched educational opportunities.
(though many Federal education
^rams have benefited Indian students to
Jte extentover the years, there has-not been
rdinated effort among them to focus on
special educational needs of Indian
lents. Hence, there arose a need for
slation that would more clearly focus on
plistic distribution of Federal funds
':ifically “ear-marked” for the design
implementation of special educational
'rams for Indian students.
ere are four parts to the Indian
cation Act of 1972. Port A provides
Pembroke finally will hove o district measure passed in his first term in the
court thanks to the efforts of house. Said Locklear, "I appreciate
Representative Horace Locklear in the Senotor Britt's help on the senate
House of Representatives and Senator side...rm very hoppy about this."
Luther Britt In the Senate.
It is expected thot Pembroke's District
Senator Luther Britt hod inh’oduced the Court will be in operation by July i ond
measure to provide Pembroke with o will be in session one day o week,
district court earlier in the year.
Representative Locklear Introduced riie Unconfiimed rumor hos it that the
measure in the house Friday and it district court will be housed in the old
passed without opposition. Rrst Union Notional Bonk Building on
Railroad Street beside Pembroke
It always hod been pointed out by Implement Company. Potes Supply
those who contend Robeson is still Company owns the building which hos
rompont with Rocism..."Hey, Pembroke been vocont since Rrst Union moved to
Is the only town of any size in Robeson new quarters lost year. The town is
County that does not hove o district expected to rent the building on o
court." monthly bosis with the idea in mind thot
Q permanent court house will be built in
Lockieor, the young Lumbee Indian the neor future os port of o complex of
legislator, hod mode the Pembroke offices thot the town officlols hove been
District Court o high priority Item in his contemplating, bosed
campaign ond he helped to get the ovoilobility of federal funds.
the
Hisroricol Tour Planned
Dy PSU's American
Indian Studies Depr.
MBROKE-A 14-day American Indian
)rical sites study that will take 44
[cipants as far as the Navajo
;rvation in New Mexico, parts of
:ona, and Mt. Rushmore and the Black
in South Dakota will be conducted
I7-July 1 by the American Indian
lies Department of Pembroke State
versity.
ading the tour will be Adolph L. Dial,
rman of the American Indian Studies
artment, and William R. Bullard,
Jtant professor of history at PSU.
r PSU students, the tour is classified as
jrican Indian Studies 455 and provides
semester hours of credit.
Tie tour is limited to the first 44 and is
1 on a first-come, first-serve basis,”
Dial. “'Thirty have already paid and 11
rs have signed up. The list of people
ide teachers, people close to
ement and college students.”
e itinerary will also cover parts of
nessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
irado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa,
Missouri, and Kentucky.
The bus tour will include tickets to the
Grand Old Opry in Nashville, Tenn. Also
planned is a visit to the drama, “Trail of
Tears.” Other stops will be at the Will
Rogers Museum, Cowboy Hall of Fame,
and Indian Museum in Oklahoma the
Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and
the sculpture of Chief Crazy Horse now
being carved in South Dakota.
UNC
Tarheels to
Take On
^PSU
Braves
Today
The University of North Carolina Tar
Heels, who play the New York Yankess
Saturday at Chapel Hill, will be in
Pembroke today to take on the PSU Braves.
by b. lockieor
Pembroke“”People go through life
never realizing what living's all about.
They live in such a sophisticated way
that they .seldom think about the
common things." thus said the
70-year-old semi-retired John L. Carter
of the Ml. Airy Community. '
The setting of his modest country
home reflected the philosophy of this
Lumbee Indian who just a little shy of
two years ago was Pembroke State
University's registrar: a position he held
for sixteen years.
A cozy fire flickered as Carter settled
back in his favorite ami chair to talk
about life since and before his
retirement from public education with
the state of North Carolina.
His earliest years were spent in Florida
with his parents. Alonza and Rhodicy
Carter. His father left his job in Florida
as a machinist to return to his native
Robeson when young John L. was six
years old. The Carter family resided in
the rural Union Chapel coinmunily
during the early I900.S where they
engaged in funning with their eight
children.
Those were the lean years according
to young John L. "It was during those
years that 1 became very clo.se to my
mother. I helped with the farm chores. 1
neved did learn to cook, or milk a cow. I
always left that to my mother, and later
on to my wife." he recalled with a grin.
"I learned many good things from my
mother during that time. It was her
Christian leaching that helped me accept
her death when 1 was only |6 years
old," he sadly commented.
A loud laugh filled the hook-crammed
living room as he relived the day he first
.saw his wife Mary 1:1 len Jacobs. "Il was
a cold winter day. and my father akcil
)ne to join him and another gentleman
for a ride to Lumberton to draw a deed
for the fann property which my father
had purchased. While in the city. I
bought some coconut candy in rainbow
colors. When we arrived back home in
the Mt. Airy community. I spotted her
peeking from a window of her parents'
home. I wanted so much to share the
candy with Mary- Ellen, but was too
bashful to do so.
"To this day, when I sec that candy in
stores, it reminds me of her." said Mr.
Carter,
•A few years later, he courted and
married the girl whom he caught
peeking at him. That was in 19.30.
Today they have nine adult children. All
are married except one.
The Carters feel their biggest
accomplishment has been in educating
all their children. The first born, John
Louis, Jr., studied high school and
college away from home. He entered
military services at the age of 18. The
youngest, and single, is Lex. who
recently graduated from East Carolina
University. He majored in political
science. Mrs, Olene .Sampson earned
her undergraduate degree from PSU.
and holds her graduate degree from
ECU. She teaches in a junior college in
Parkville. Maryland.
Mrs. Adrene Locklear graduated from
PSU. and • teaches at Piney Grove
Elementary School located in rural
Lumbcrion. She has traveled
extensively overseas: hav
Germany and Okinawa.
lived in
Mrs. Mu/aicne Dusan resides in
Jacksonville. Florida,, and teaches
school in that city. She holds a M ,\.
from tile University of Jacksonville, and
ciiose to siudv undergraduate at Carsoii-
. Ten
CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Both games have created a lot of interest
because Pembroke Warrior standout
Dwight Lowery is now the first string
The tour plans to visit at least 12 Indian catcher with the Tar Heels, and Gene
reservations, the largest of which is the Locklear, the lithe Lumbee Indian
Navajo Reservation in New Mexico which outfielder from the Mt. Airy Community, is
covers 14 million acres and has the largest listed on the New York Yankee roster.
Indian population in the U.S.
The game begins at 3 p.m. today on PSU’s
Cost for the tour, not including food, is turf, PSU is on a three game winning streak
$423. Applications must include a check or and is now over the .500 mark'with a 6-5
money order for $100 payable to the Dean mark. The Tar Heels are 12-8 overall and
of Admissions at Pembroke State 2-0 in the Atlantic Coast conference.
University not later than April 30. All fees
and travel costs must be paid in full not later The Tar Heel’s game with the New York
than May 13. Yankees at Chapel Hill is completely sold
out, A number of locals are expected to
An orientation meeting for those going attend both games to see Locklear and the
will be held June 10 at 8 p.m. in Room 100 brilliant young Lumbee Indian Dwight
of the Oxendine Science Building. Lowery in action.
PEMBROKE BPW CLUB TO MEET
The April meeting of the Pembroke
Business and Professional Women’s club
will be held on Monday, April 4, at 7:00
p.m. at Maynor Manor (Community Room.
Guest speaker will be Ms, Sharen Van
Zandt, Director of Bryan Day Care Center
in Lumberton who will discuss “Women in
and Mental Health.”
The Report of the Nominating Committee
for new officers for the coming year will be
heard and a report will be made on the
recent Shamrock Ball sponsored by the
Club as a fund-raising activity. Ms. Grace
Epps will report on the District IX meeting
which will Ik held in Clinton on Saturday,
April 2.
Hostesses for the April meeting will be
Ms. Lillie M. Lowry, Ms.Mary Bell and
Ms. Susan Maynor.
BOARD OF EDUCATION TO MEET APRIL
19. 1977
The April meeting of the Robeson County
Board of Education will be held on
Tuesday, April 19, 1977 at 4:00 p.m,
rather than the regular scheduled date of the
second Tuesday. The meeting is being
postponed one week due to the fact that the
schools and offices will be closed.
ADVANCE PAY TO VETERANS
TERMINATED AT RTI
As of June 1, advanced pay to veterans for
school attendance will be terminated. The
announcement was made this week by
Eddie Mac Locklear, Robeson Technical
Institute’s Director of Veteran Affairs.
According to information received from
the Veteran Administration headquarters, a
veteran will receive benefits for school
attendance only after attending for the
month. Checks for attendance in May will
be issued on May first. No checks will be
issued in June, when this new policy goes
into effect. The next benefits will be issued
July 1 for attendance in June,
“For the veteran whose sole income is
veteran benefits while in school, this new
policy means a pieriod ofadjustment,” said
Locklear. “There will be a lapse from May
I to July I with no income coming in.”
REVIVAL BEGINS AT CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
The Christian Fellowship Church in Red
Springs will hold o re^ol beginning
April 4 and running thru April 8. Services
will begin nightly at 7:00 p.m. The Rev.
Ronnie Garris from Peochlond, NC will
be the guest speaker.
The Christian Fellowship Church is o
nondenomlnotionol church which is
relotiveiy new. Services ore being held
on Sunday morning beginning ot 10:30
Q.m. SerMces will also be held on
Sunday, Wednesday ond Soturdoy
nights beginning at 7:00 p.m.
The Christian Fellowship Church
extends o cordial welcome to people of
oil races ond denominations. The
Church is located off Highway #7i,
ocross from the telephone yord in Red
Springs.
PSU TRACKMEN COMPETE SATURDAY
PSU's Braves will be among 27 teams
from six states taking part in the fifth annual
Atlantic Coast Relays track and field meet
Saturday on the N. C. State track.
All of the Atlantic Coast Conference
schools except Clemson will join South
Carolina, Virigina Tech., East Carolina
and 17 others for the 27-event meet which
opens at 9:45 a.m. with the 10,0(X)-meter
nun? p^ofo)'*^^^ (^'11
Pembroke State discus thrower Charles
Shipman; 1500-meter runner Jeff Moody
All parents, teachers, and friends of
Ashpole, Southside, and Rowland High
School are urged to attend.
MUSICIAN VISITS OXENDINE SCHOOL
On March 29th at Oxendine Elementary
School a special musical program was
rendered by Mrs. Joan Miller, visiting artist
at Robeson Technical Institute.
She began her formal training at the age of
14, attended the Governor’s school in
music, and received a Spencer Love
Scholarship in voice to UNC-Greensboro
for four years.
She has also studied at Yale University
and received many honors and special
training in the area of music. Mrs. Miller
has given over 100 recitals, performances,
and lectures across the state.
She was accompanied by Ms. Mary Carol
May formerly with the San Diego Opera
Company and now residing in Lumberton.
Mrs. Miller’s presentation was part of the
school’s project of exposing the children to
the area of Fine Arts.
The faculty, staff, • and student body
thoroughly enjoyed her outstanding
musical presentation and hope to have her
back for another program in the near future.
PSU POLITICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS
TO VISIT STATE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING
PEMBROKE-Pembroke State
University’s Political Science Department
is sponsoring a trip to State Legislative
Building in Raleigh Tuesday. April 5,
during whichthe PSU students will meet
with various state officials, including Gov,
Jim Hunt.
The students will depart at 8 a.m. from the
Maintenance Building of PSU and return
home at 5 p.m. Leading the tour is Dr.
Gibson Gray, associate professor of
political science at PSU.
While at the State Legislative Building,
they will attend committee meetings from
10:30 a.m. until noon. Following lunch
they will meet with Commissioner of
Insurance John Ingram at 1:30 p.m. in
Room 10 of the Legislative Building for a
briefing on insurance in politics.
At 3 p.m. they are'scheduled to be greeted
by Gov. Hunt in the rotunda of the old
Capitol building.
At 3:45 p.m. they will meet with Sen.
Luther Britt of Robeson County, and Jesse
Barber, resident manager of an insurance
company in Raleigh. Sen. Britt is a member
of a senatorial committee concerned with
insurance. Each will speak to the students
on insurance matters for those entering
politics.
Insurance topics to also be discussed
include: Rate making for insurance in
N.C., how it is and how it should be; Court
cases involving insurance regulations; and
Laws and prospective legislation
concemintr regulation of insurance.
DR. E.B. TURNER TO BE MAIN
SPEAKER AT DEDICATION CEREMONIES
Dr. E.B. Turner, Pastor of First Baptist
Church, Lumberton, N.C. and Secretary of
the Board of Governors of the University of
North Carolina System, will be the main
speaker at dedication ceremonies. April 16.
at 11:00 a.m., of the $3 million George L,
Butler Learning Center Complex at
Fayetteville State.University.
The ceremony, presided by FSU
Chancellor Charles "A” Lyons, Jr,, will
take place in the Little Theater of the
million dollar Butler Learning Complex.