MAftT UVEftMORE LIB HART ff PEMBROKE. STATE. LIBRARY ^ 2?37? ? I IF ! | Published each Thursday since January 18,1973 I I i Carolina Indian Voice I ' . ? I Jfce, NC Robeson County I "Building communicative bridges in a tri-racial setting" H 1 i * * " . y * ? ?? ^ UMBER 44 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31,1991 25 CENTS PER COPY I *~T ?" . r ? Reception planned to honor Rose & Locklear A reception honoring Congressman Charlie Rose and Ariinda Loddear, Tribal Attorney, will be held Friday, November 8 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Pembroke Jayeee Clubhouse. Tbe reception is being sponsored by the Federal Recognition Committee and will be used to inform people about the federal recognition process. Hie reception will last until.... And the public is encouraged to attend. Congressman Rose introduced the Lumbee Bill which passed the House of Representatives overwhel as ? ? mingly. The bill is now in the Senate Select Committee and expected to be out of committee and voted on by the Senate before Thanksgiving. Congressman Rose and Attorney Locklear will speak to the Lumbee Bill itself and what it means to Lumbee people in terms of services, etc. They will also be available to answer questions about the recognition process. A.Bruce Jones selected as delegate to NCAI convention LRDA's board of directors agreed at their regular monthly meeting to continue their membership in the National Congress of American Indians. A. Bruce Jones, board member and also executive director of the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affaire, was selected as the voting delegate at the NCAI Convention to be held in California in December. James Sampson and Kmma Locklear were selected as first and second alternate delegates respectively. Cynthia Hunt Locklear, Dorothy Blue and Wanda K. Locklear will set up an educational booth at the convention to inform people about Lumbees. Locklear is an employee of LRDA; Blue will represent Title V, IEA and Hunt-Locklear will represent Lumbee River Legal Services. In other business, the board agreed for Bobby Griffin, economic development officer for the agency, to buy a building from Ted Parker for $20,000, pending an inquiry at Crestline in Maxton for the same building. The building will be used for the Smyrna Head Start The question was raised to Griffin about seeking bids on the building. Griffin said that he asked at Fleetwood and they could not build the particular building needed. Also he stated that he checked with a firm in South Carolina and they too could not provide the building. Rod Locklear made the motion to allow the purchase from Ted Parker, "pending and inquiry from Crestline." Griffin also gave an update on the Lumbee Industries Board. Lumbee Industries is the profit making entity of LRDA. Griffin stated that Lumbee Industries was seeking 8-A certification. He stated also that the Lumbee Industries Board had accepted the concept of a board make up which wfll consist of five members from the LRDA board and four members who will not be affiliated with the present LRDA board. Members of lumbee Industries presently consist of LRDA board members. They are Grover Oxendine, chairman; Adlph Blue, Chairman of LRDA Board; H. Doobs Oxendine; Leroy Scott; William Lowry; Wendell CNN Interviews rembrok* leaders on Lumbee recognition Atlanta--The CNN Television Network carried on October 23 a special interview telecast entitled "Lumbee Recognition" on its 24-hour news program. "The interviews were carried several times that day and gave the Lumbee recognition issue international exposure." said Bettina Hutchings, producer of the show. Among those interviewed were Dr. Adoiph Dial, repesentative in the N.C. General Assembly; James Hardin, executive director of the Lumbee Regional Development Associaiton; and I*. Welton Dowry, pastor of West Bid Baptist Church in Lumber-ton who is considered a Lumbee elder. Pow-wowplanned in VA The First Annuel Richmond, Virginia Bow Wow will be held at the Richmond Fairground on November 21-24. Hie pow wow wfll feature the Aztec Dancers and Buddy ' Big Mountain. Over $5,000 in prise money will be awarded. For further informaiton call 301-788-0689. CLARIFICATION Jeffrey R. Brooks, local UPS driver, wishes to state that he is not the Jeffrey Brooks who is running for a seat on the FVmbroke Town Council. In fact. Brooks does not reside within the city limits of Pembroke. IN THE ARMED FORCES A . _ Eric T. Brewington graduated from Operations Management Officer School, Keealer, AFB Miss. He is the son of T\sd and Geraldine Brewington of Route 1, Pembroke. He is married to Mary Jane Brewington. daughter to Dr. Sherman Brooks and Debra Brooks of 1 Pembroke. Brewington is presently assigned to 96 Tactical Fighter ' Tteining Squad at Tyndall AFB, Panama City. Florida i where he serves as Operations Man agin en t/ Executive Officer. He has been in the US Air Force (or eight months and is a 1964 graduate of West Robeson Senior High and a 1990 graduate of IVmbroke State University. The Operations Mansgement course consisted of flight planning. Air Base operability, security. Nuclear Biological and Chemical warfare and computer commu nications. Portraits displayed by Pembroke Redevelopment Commission ? .:x*. . .... . DHL ? ? MAYNOR ? m LOCKLEAR Tk* Ptmbrok* R*d*v*lopm*nt Commit tion koa duplayod tka portrait* of tavoral ditkngwikad local laadan. Tk* admtmttrahon bwildtng located m LockUar u tk* now location of the paifcfafr of Mr. Sam Dial, Mr. Eartia B Maynor, Mr. Claranc* LocMoor and Mr. Rogmald Tfci'i Hwirf Dial, known at tka "Tka Foliar of Public Hooting" fa ftwtffafa it tka /kit fa tk* row of pattroUi. Dial* Tkrraca wot nomad aftar Mm. Tka tacond portrait it tkat of Harka B. Maynor ttkaaa family %uq$ Ithui enough to q hotiiiBomo oil potntmy Ha vmt a former mayor tf Dtmkroki and tka potion for wkom Maynor Manor it nomad. Claronco Loektoar wot tka fktt Indian mayor of Pombrokt. LtaMotr Caart wot nomad for Mm. Reginald Strickland t portrait kangt at tka and M tka raw. Ha h alto a /armor mayor of Pimkretm tad A aaoant tpaea in tka now M portrMt* hat boon loft for Hon i.K. Ckauit. Ckauit Hob not nomad fa kit honor. itWoklmd Traveling exhibition of Native American art collected in early 20th Century on view through December 29 Hie history of collecting is the theme of a major traveling exhibition of approximately 250 Native American objects acquired in the first decade of this century by Stewart Culin, curator of ethnology at Tie Brooklyn Museum from 1908 to 1929. Unique among major 19th century museums in combining the arts and sciences, Hie Brooklyn Museum's ethnographic collec tion has been crucial to definition and appreciation of Native American art in this century. The Museum's ethnographic collections have always been appreciated for their aesthetic value as well as their anthropological importance. Organised by geographical region, the exhibition, entitled Object* of Myth and Memory; American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, presents a wide range of rare and finely crafted objects that have not been on public view for several decades, accompanied by Culin's detailed documentation concerning their acquisition. The exhibition will travel to The Oakland Museum, where it will be on view February 28-May 24, 1992, and to The Heard Museum in Phoenix, where it is tentatively scheduled for the fall of 1998. On annual field trips to the Southwest, the Plains, California and the Pacific Northwest, Culin collected mote than 9,000 artifacts including those that had been used for ceremonial purposes, household utensils, hunting implements, masks, dolls, games, and,textiles. He was the first to collect systematically among the Navajo, and his Pomo material is among the most comprehensive in existence. The objects that he acquired were obtained directly from the Indians, in some cases by actually going from door-to-door, as wed as from collectors and traders. By his own account, he bought with a "lavish hand," occasionally buying an entire lot because he wanted on^y one piece in it Culin succeeded in developing warm personal relationships with many Indians who provided him with information on the history and significance of the objects they sold or made for him: the young Navajo medicine man, little Singer, who identified and explained old objects and whom Culin commissioned to make Nava games: his Zuni interpreter, Nick Graham who provided information to Culin on his rivals in the field as well as about Zuni ceremonies; Mary Asbill, a leader of the Maidu community in Chico, California, who was fluent in several European and Indian languages; a Pomo Indian named Goose, who Culin dubbed "the old philosopher"; and ethnologist Francis La Flesche. who was raised as an Omaha, and was also an expert on the neighboring Osage. Changed economic and social circumstances often allowed Culin to acquire objects that had previously not been for sale, while economic or religious conversion brought family heirlooms and ceremonial artifacts into circulation. He even managed to purchase rare and unusual ceremonial materials which were seldom, if ever, shown to outsiders, much less offered for sale. Where J objects were missing from a set or from a particular area ' of a collection, he would often commission a native artisan to replicate a piece. I like many other curators of the time, Stewart Culin eras j driven by a sense of urgency. Nevertheless, his collection i of American Indian objects is unique because he < meticulously documented each acquisition in field notes, in reports to the Board of Trustees of the Museum, and in letters from the field. In planning the exhibition, project | director Diana Fane ano curatorial consultants Ira Jaeknis j and liae M. Breen sifted through thie materials, much of it never before subjected to scholarly analysis. They ] discovered that ihtdhd riser riptinns existed of the < circumstances surrounding the acquisition of a majority of objects in the collection, often including information on who had owned or made it and why the object had been sold. It is Stewart Culin's written material, especially his expedition reports, that inform the exhibition as well as the accompanying catalogue. His writing also reveals decisions that shaped the collection. For example, although he considered the Hopi the more important tribe, he opted to collect from the Zuni rather than compete with the strong Hopi collection at the Field Museum in Chicago. From his day-to-day accounts of working in the field emerge tales of competition among individual ethonologists and musems?venality, dupli city, and even a possible murder- as the American West was mined for Indian artifcats. For Culin, exhibitions rather than research, were the primary motivation for his collecting. As a curator he prided himself on mastering the language of things-getting objects to tell him their story and then coaxing and arranging them to tell that story to the world. The more than 9,000 American Indian objects that he managed to acquire in less than a decade were quickly put on display, almost in thier entirety, in quick succession following each of the several trips he made to the West between 1903 and 1911. Now that much of it is being exhibited for the first time in decades, Culin's collection can be re-evaluated and the complex myths and memories embodied in the objects he acquired can be appreciated. In 1911, after a final season of collecting in Oklahoma among the Osage, Stewart Culin declared the collection at the Brooklyn Museum to be compete. The remainder of his career was spent developing other strong ethnogra phic collections, including Asian and African, for the Objects of Myth and Memory was made possible with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, federal agencies; The Luce Fund for Scholarship in American Art, a program for the Henry Luce Fundation, Inc.; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the J.M. Kaplan Fund. Additional support for the catalogue was provided by the his and B Gerald Cantor Art Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fully illustrated, 320-page catalogue ($28.96, paper/ $60.00 hardcover) will include two interpretive essays on Culin, four regional essays and 318 catalogue entries. Written by Diana Fane, ha Jacknis, and Lise M. Breed, it is co- published by the Brooklyn Musem and the University of Washington Press. A numbed of public programs will accompany the exhibition, including a symposium, a film and video series, gallery talks. school group tours, open houses for teachers, adn family workshops. There will also be a complementary exhibition, A Dialogue with Tradition. Three Contemporary Native American Artiat Families, which will present approxi mately 30 objects created by a group of contemporary Native American artists who will participate in an artist-in- residence program at the Museum. EDITOR'S NOTE: Mn, A. J. Rtmberg of New York was secretary of Stewart Cntin at the Brooklyn Msuestm m the inoa. M recognition of her services, the Mnaeom presented thia book to her. She it donating this rare new book to the Motive American Resource Center at Pembroke State University because her ton, John Kmberg, it a professor at the IMuersity. Prefettor Rhnberg will teach a course m the Spring of 1993 entitled ?American Mdiant Before Cobsmbut" iSociotegy tSS\ 7hit chut it open to undergraduate and ymdaaie ttndents and tpecial students. The ciati meett Tuesday* and Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. until 4.-45 p.m. It begins in serfy January 1993 and enda ni eariy May - k|||U, MMNI MmM. e*il?4< pl*a<. ItbMt. ?VM, *?