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Brooks & Knick to give lectures at
Museum of the Cape Fear
During March, the Museum of the Cape Fear and the
North Carolina Humanities Council Speakers' Bureau is
sponsoring a free lecture series about Lumbee Indians.
Beginning March 3. Judge Dexter Brooks will speak on
"Lumbee History: Pre-Columbian Times to the Present."
A Lumbee himself. Judge Brooks' lecture will focus on
the past and present status and the treatment of the
Lumbee tWhr ??!?? ????me fare I >-face with the
conflicts with Jim Crow laws, to struggles with voting
-rights in the modern era. Native Americans continue to
rights in the modern era. Native Americans continue to
strive for equal opportunities. Judge Brooks' experiences
growing up in a racially segregated Robeson County will
enhance the lecture.
Two more lectures are included in the series, one on
March 24 and the last on March 31. Dr. Stanley G. Knick,
Director of the Native American Resource Center, will
give the two remaining lectures: "Lumbee Indian History
and Culture: Past and Present," and "Contemporary
Issues Facing Native Americans."
The presentation of "Lumbee Indian History and
Culture: Past and Present," provides an overview from
prehistory to modern times. Dr. Knick will also address
the issue of recognition by the federal government. The
presentation will further discuss how both change and
continuity have characterized the history and culture of
these people.
"Contemporary Issues Facing Native Americans,"
concentrates on the aspects of cultural identity,
stereotypes, judicial independence, government rela
tions, religious freedom, and health and substance abuse.
Some history will be examined to give more insight to this
topic.
All lectures are free and begin at 7:00 p.m. at the
Museum of the Cape Fear. The museum is located at 801
Arsenal Avenue in Fayetteville. Hours of operation are
Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 1
p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (919) 486-1330.
Democratic precinct meetings March 5
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annual precinct meeting to be held at the regular polling
place on March 5 at 8 p.m.
County Democratic Chairman Jo Ann Loeklear
(encourages all registered Democrats to attend. "We want
all Democrats to attend this meeting, whether they are
activits or just want to get involved with the party."
Chairman Loeklear said that this is also the first step in
the State Party's National Delegate selection. Persons
who are interested in becoming delegates to the National
uonvenuon snouia aiiena uieir precinci meeungs. ine
precinct level is also where all policy making of the party
begins," Locklear said. "The more that people get
involved in precinct meetings, the better the party can
represent the views of all Democrats."
At the precinct meetings Democrats will elect delegates
to the April 4th County Convention and have a chance to
pass resolutions on Party policy. ,
For more information call Chairman Locklear at 738
5404 between the hours of 6 and 9 p.m.
Ik*. Felicia Turner gives workshop on self-esteem
Dr. Felicia Turner, a self-esteem consdltaht for the U.S.
Department of Education, gave a two-hour workshop on
"Self Esteem and Top Performance" at PSU Tuesday,
emphasizing IALAC, which stands for "I am lovable and
capable."
Dr. Turner, a PSU graduate with a Master's and Ph.D.
from Penn State University, has conducted seminars all
over the nation on this and other topics and gave PSU
students some ammunition to boost their self esteem.
"What you feel inside makes you face each problem
that comtes up hetiier it is at home, at work, at
church," she said.
Turner said one of the first things a person can do to
help his or her self esteem is to smile. "When I look at
you, I want to see some teeth," she urged. "That is a way
of saying, Tm okay; you're okay.'"
One of the worst habits a person can have to boost his
self esteem is becoming a couch potato- watching
television too much. People who do this give up relating to
their friends, she said.
"If you want a different attitude toward life, reach out
and touch someone. This will also make you lovable and
capable," said Turner. "It will combat any feelings of
loneliness. Give love, appreciation and concern, and
you'll get them back."
As an example of what appreciation can bring, Turner
had three persons from the audience stand in front of the
class and receive applause. "Clap for them!" she said.
Hie reactions were smiles on the three persons' faces and
smiles from those in the audience.
For "quick pick'er uppers," Turner suggested.
I "Walking on the beach (or anywhere), swinging in the
park, attending a concert or play, taking a bubble bath,
going out to lunch -or just getting away from it all."
She encouraged "support groups" or persons. "You
need that friend," she said, "who cm* say frankly to you,
' Get off your lasy buns and get it done.' Or "IVirn that TV
Turner told the students they should think "positive
thoughts." "Did you know that 50,000 thoughts go
through your mind each day? Your mind is like a
computer. You are affected by what you see or hear. So
think positive thoughts. In your imagination, see yourself
succeeding in giving a speech, which is the No. 1 thing
that people fear doing. See yourself doing something else
well. Hi is is positive affirmation. You are saying, 'I am
lovable; I am capable.'"
She urged the students to "take care of your bodies."
Turner said a person who takes extremely good care of his
?Taguar should value his body just as much.
To function best. Turner advised the students to know
when their minds are functioning at their peak. "Get into
a body rhythm of knowing how much sleep you require to
function at their peak the next day," she said.
All of these things and more will help a person develop
more self esteem and give top performances, she
believes.
off and get it done.' If you don't have that kind of
'support,' find someone to provide it. You need someone
who will help you get rid of the response that Til do it
some day."'
For self esteem. Turner said a person should use a
rallying cry. "In asking yourself are you better or worse
as compared with others, you need to shake your fist in
the air and shout; I'm enough!"'
Turner also provided the students a formula: E +
0. Which means (external) Even plus (your Reaction
equals Outcome. "Many people blame the external event
for the outcome," she said. " If a student gets a D in class,
he blames the professor instead of himself. Tt'? the
student's responsibility to clean up his act" She said
individuals can either "cave in" or respond in positive
ways to determine the outcome. Turner used illustrations
from her own life to exemplify this formula.
Dr. Ftkcia Tkmrr... Talks about how to build i*U ttUrm
RCC registration March 2
Registration for the Spring Quarter at Robeson
Community College will be Mondsy, March 2, 1992 in the
RCC Student Center, Building 13. Completed applications
for admission must be on file prior to registration.
Classes will begin Wednesday. March 4, 1992.
financial Aid is available. For more information, please
<*11 RCC Admissions Office at 738-7101 ext 264.
Pembroke Kiwanis Report
The weekly meeting was held at the Town and Country
Restaurant with President Clay Maynor presiding.
Program chairman Juddie Revels presented Dr. Dan
Barbee of the PSU Political Science Department
Dr. Barbee spoke on the nature of violence and what is
hoped can be done about it 54 percent of all violent
crimes are commited by people who know each other. The
crimes are assosicated with poverty, alcohol, 30 percent
have been beaten by a partner, most violence is commited
by men, 75 percent of women who leave their beater are
killed by the beater.
Factors associated with violence are attitudes,
economic status, firearms, alcohol, and drugs. Between
the years of 1983 and 1987 there were 2,816 deaths by
violence in North Carolina.
The Rape Crisis Center served 76 victims in 1991.
Dr. Barbee and Dr. Gary Wills from their studies are
suggesting community education, counseling, court
advocacy, support groups, referral services, all for the
very young and elderly, and coalition efforts.
The problem faced by the public schools include child
abuse and neglect, corporal punishment, out of school
suspesion- 3,292 with 665 drop outs, in Robeson County
alone not to mention the drop out rate in the state.
The Club awarded $250 to the boy scouts, chairman is
Ed Teets.
Ll Gov. Jerry Joseph spoke to the group. Visitors were
from the Lumberton club.
Presiding Clay Maynor; invocation Albert Hunt; song
leader- Ed Teets; program- Juddie Revels; Reporter
Ken Johnson.
Writers conference to feature
"Dances with Wolves" actress
By Barbara Braveboy-Locklear
SPECIAL TO THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE
A bit of the academy award winning film "Dances with
Wolves" comes to North Carolina in two weeks with the
appearance of Doris Leader Charge at the North Carolina
Women Writer's Conference in Winston-Salem on March
13-15.
The Lakota (Sioux) tutor turned actress will open the
three-day conference as a keynote speaker. She will be
introduced by Linda Oxendine, chairperson of the Ameri
can Indian Studies Department at Pembroke State Uni
versity. Leader Charge will bring to the lectern ant
address on "The Native American Woman and The Oral
Tradition"
Leader Charge is not given self-promotion. Nor is she
felly accustomed to her new-found notoriety as the
woman who taught Kevin Costner how to dance with
wolves - or at least speak to them. In addition to her work
on the hit film in May 1989, Leader Charge was also
language coordinator for "Son of the Morning Star,"
ABC's critically acclaimed four-hour production based
on Evan S. Connell's novel about George Armstrong
Custer's campaign to destiny in the Plains Indian Wars.
She played a key role in "Dances with Wolves" when she
served as dialect coach to the cast and played the role of
Pretty Sheild, wife of Chief Ten Bears in the movie.
The mother of four teaches Lakota language and cul
ture at Sinte Gleska College, a tribal college on the
Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Born and raised
on the 7,000-square-mile reservation. Leader Charge
learned Lakota from her grandmother, who, spoke no
English. At 14, her regular schooling stopped when she
quit to begin working to help support her family. By 21,
her own marriage of five years ended afrer her husband
died of a heart-attack.. At 27. she married a fellow Sioux,
Fred Leader Charge, who now serves as a counselor at
Sinke Gleska College. Several years after marrying her
second husband, Leader Charge resumed her own long
interrupted studies, earned a degree in elementary educa
tion and began teaching Lakota there as well.
Although 12 credit hours away from a master's degree,
she does not describe herself as a scholar in the traditional
sense of the word. But at 61, she brings to her students a
world of experience not found in textbooks.
She is praised by college officials as an example of Sinte
Gleska's philosophy of being integral to the lives of the
students of the college which at once appears as both a
two-year and four-year institution they say.
'1 Basically, we are a community college that happens to
offer a bachelor's and master's degree," says Sinte
Gleska Vice IVesident Cheryl Crazy Bull. "Doris is a go<Id
role model for our students. She came from a typical
reservation life."
When actor-director Kevin Costner and producer Jim
Wilson went to South Dakota in early sping of 1989 to film
"Dances With Wolves," their biggest problem wasn't
finding the 3,500 buffalo, two wolves, 100 horses, 36
tepees and 175 Native American extras needed to give the
film an authenic look. It was how to re-create an all but
lost language-the Lakota dialect spoken by Sioux tribes in
the 1880's when the movie takes place.
"Of all the extras, not one of them was a fluent Lakota
speaker," says Wilson. "Then someone recommended
Doris Leader Charge."
"I was surprised when a movie producer called and
asked me to translate a script because I really didn't know
what a script was," leader Charge says. "I had never
seen one."
leader Charge insisted on reading the script before
consenting to the translation project. She says she was
"deeply impressed" with the script and adds that the film
"showed the mutual care and support, the sense of humor
that characterizes our people."
After the script was translated into Lakota words and
thought patterns, leader Charge and White Hat, a Lakota
Holy Man, made recordings of individual parts, which the
actors used to learn their lines.
When first asked to take the part of Pretty Shield,
Leader Charge declined because of her teaching
obligations at Suite Gleska College. Kevin Costner
persuaded the college's vice president to grant her an
extended leave until the movie was completed. She
earned $23,800 for her six months in working on the film.
Apart from the windfall. Leader Charge notes little has
char fed. "We have such a struggle down here just to get
Doris Leader Charge in the role as "Pretty Shield" in
Dances with Wolves."
groceries and' make payments." With her modest
teacher's salary of $17,000, Leader Charge says the extra
money came in handy. Shortly before she and her
husband moved into their $5,500 two-bedroom frame
house in the reservation town of Parmele seven years ago,
vandals had broken the windows and punched holes in the
walls. With the movie money. Leader Charge was finally
able to pay for repairs, then bought a new refrigerator, a
stove, a washer and a dryer.
17ie Sioux life is softened by a great equality, with
mutual respect between women and men and comple
mentarity in their roles. It is this message that Leader
Charge will deliver to hundreds of women writers and
attendees at the upcoming North Carolina Women
Writers' Conference.
Billed as the biggest conclave of writers of either sex.
ever assembled in the state, with no fewer than 120
writers actually participating at some point, the
conference is filled with seminars, talks, scholarly papers,
productions, gatherings, receptions, banquets, lunch
eons, and formal speeches.
Lumherton's own Jill McCorkle will join three others in
a panel discussing '"Hie Toughest Scene I Ever Wrote."
Pembroke native Barbara Brave boy Locklear will be one
of three panelists discussing "Exploring Our Time. Our
Place."
TTiough all sessions will be open and free to the public,
those who want to take part in all the "eating sessions",
can pay a registration fee. Information about registration
can be had from the North Carolina Writer's Network in
Carrboro, call 919 967 9540.
Only in Robeson by Joe Frybread
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WLUM. I'm Joe Frybread your host today and our special
guest is Dr. Joseph Oxendine, chancellor of the univer
sity.
Frybread: Welcome, Dr. Oxendine to WLUM.
Oxendine: Thank you, Frybread.
Frybread: Chief Joseph we have been hearing an awful
lot lately about the university mascot. Now what is your
positioo on the subject today?
Oxendine: Well, Frybread as I said in my press release
my position is this and I'll stick to it.
Frybread: That's very clear, Dr. Oxendine and by the
way, that was a great press release...pretty writing that is.
Where did you learn to write like that?
Oxendine: Philadelphia.
Frybread: Philadelphia. I love that Mississippi cook
ing. I spent a few nights in jail in old Philadelphia,
Mississippi during an AIM protest back in the 60's.
Oxendine: No. No, Frybread. Philadelphia. Pennsylva
nia.
Frybread: Uh. I didn't know that we had any Indians in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Oh well. Now that the mas
cot issue is over, what do you have planned for the
university?
Oxendine: I'm glad you asked that question, Frybread
because just today we decided to remove that unsightly
arrowhead from the campus
Frybread: The arrowhead? But that's a historical marker!
Oxcndinc: I'm going to replace it with some real
history. I am partial to the Statue of Liberty. So, I have
commissioned an Italian artist to make me a replica of the
old lady out of pewter. I don't care much for turquoise and
silver.
* Frybread: Doc, what other changes do you expect to
make now that you are sensitive to the Native American?
Oxendine: Frybread, I plan to ban the use of Tribe eau
de cologne by any student or any member of the mainte
nance staff. I also plan to sell all lawn mowers and tractors
that use Tecumseh motors.
Frybread: What about your faculty? Do you plan to hire
more Native Americans as instructors?
Oxendine: No. I believe we have a good balance and
furthermore I believe these Native Americans with de
grees from Princeton, Duke, City College and the like,
just received token degrees. I believe a good old non
Indian with a degree from Point Park College is much
better prepared to fit our plan.
Frybread: Folks, that's all the time we have today. I
want to thank Dr. Oxendine for taking time out ofhis busy
schedule to be dur guest here on WLUM. Listeners,
please tune in next week when we will have as our guest
David Duke, a candidate for the Executive Director of the
North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs Until next
week this is Joe Frybread coming to you live from the new
and beautiful campus of The University of North Caro
lina at Lumberton