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Knowing Who Your Friends Are
?" In the circuitous, Idhyrialhint
vforid of Indian politics, it is hard to I
know who is a friend snd who is not. |
Ifycn have been through a few battles I
hatha person, and that person has not 1
tuned on you, maybe you have found I
a friend
Unfortunately, being pnternatoed I
for two centuries has turned too many 1
".Indian leaden" into puppets of the J
governor, mayor, or school superin- \
tender* who hired them. Bruce Jones, <
Executive Director of the NC Indian t
Commission, has been heard to say t
many times, "No Indian pays my I
falary".
- Bruce knows who pays his salary. >
It is the Governor. He is accountable 3
to the Governor, and not to Indian 1
people anywhere. Truth folly, Brace ?
says this only in the heat of passion or 1
battle, la public, he is a friend of
Mtkans 1
t
. -Twenty years ato, I met one of the f
supposed dearest friends Lumbee In- c
dians everh had, Eddie Tullis. Eddie i
has been Chief of the Eastern Creeks r
for over 25 years, and has never lost an a
electian. Fie " inherited" his position tj
by manying the daughter of the last
chief, Mary Jane. I
?I have known Mary Jane since I tl
made a recruiting trip to Poarch, Ala- c
bama for Bacone College in 1979. h
She understands politics and power, h
\
Getting federal recognition for
the Eastern Creeks was only a dull
gleam in Eddie's eye when 1 first met
aim. Nothing had been dooe to apply.
Slothing had been done to document
heir tribal existence.
For years, Eddie was a fan of Lum
iee Leaders Dr. Helen Scheirbeck.
iV J Strickland. Ken Maynor, and
ludge Brantley Blue taught him a lot
When the procedure for federal rec
>gnition was established in 1987, and
he Lumbee leaders started working
oward it. Eddie jumped in with both
bet with his tribe's petition.
As a result, the Eastern Creeks
vere formally recognized halfa dozen
rears ago by the Bl A. They have built
i successful bingo operation, a motel,
md other businesses, with federal
iinds used to start them.
Thus it saddens my heart to see the
etter opposing Lumbee recognition
hat Eddie just co-signed. It was
Minted in Indian Country Today, the
Mher Indian paper I read every week,
iince Eddie was gotten federal recog
lition, he no longer needs Lumbees
inymore. We have known this since
he very year he got recognition.
The year before, Rosa Winfree and
had gone to Eddie with a proposition
hat one of his people run with the two
>f us for the Board of the NIEA. We
ad the support of Ruth Woods, and
ad several other blocs of support.
With a fourth person, Pauline Smith,
we ran as a slate and all four ofus won
We ran on a reform slate. We
thought and stated that the leadership
of NIEA had let the organization fall
apart; it needed to be built up. Unfor
tunately. within six months, both
Eddie's man, Eugene Madison, and
Pauline, had both turned on us and
joined the opposition, the ones who
had already failed.
With their help. Karen Fenton beat
me for the Presidency, 8-7, and pro
ceeded to almost bankrupt the organi
zation She made 23 trips on NIEA
funds that year, and overspent the
SI5,000 travel budget by more than
100%
Eugene would not have abandoned
us without authorization from Eddie.
As soon as Eddie's tribe was recog
nized, he jumped the Lumbee ship
and went to the other side himself. He
showed signs of this even earlier,
supporting Arnold Wachacha from
Cherokee for the NCAI Eastern Area
VP over Bruce Jones, in 1983. Eddie
went along with the thinking that it
was' too early" to have a Lum on the
NCAI Board
Maybe I expect too much. Can we
expect Eddie Tullis to be our friend
when our own, Bruce Jones, will not
be? Politics makes strange bedfel
lows. But does it mean that our own
have to sell us out?
f Genealogical Glimpses 1
I i
The old Lady pulled the string that
raised the latch and listened as the
door groaned on its hinges. A similar
sound could be felt in her spirit as die
stared intothe night Her frail wrinkled
hands tugged at the coarse homespun
apron that was tied so neatly about her
waist. Her mouth jerked several tomes
as her eyes flooded with lavs. How
she wished that he would come by
tonight It had been too long since she
had seen her son. "Wonder why he
don't get up with me she thought,
always was stubborn, wanted his own
way." "Couldn't figure the boy. fear
such hard trials in the settlement lately.
Our boys are leaving this world, never
thought I'd see so many of mine go
ahead of me " Silently she dabbed
hereyes with the tail ofta apron. The
great burden that she carried was not
without cause Since the war had
begun her family had fallen prey to it
like no other family. She never could
figure why the white wanted to start a
war with each other. Her people had
warred with other tribes but never
with their own. Now she had almost
given her entire family and she hadn't
even chosen a side. Maybe she had.
Secretly in her heart she knew that her
boys understood how that the trouble
had come to them. They know about
greed, though they had not been taught
16 practice it Whea they saw the
? Ait i i I ii 111 ? 11 MjiramKliwji Aw ? 1i
^uWC pUlDiei > !>v . alllUlilw IVJl c VCf V
acrr ofland thai they could get control
of, and still they showed no signs of
being satisfied, die small landholder
began to shudder
The Indian fanners saw places like
the Baker plantation, the Southeriaod
farm, Red Banks plantation as a threat
to them, and especially for a need of
labor The elderly mother of Henry
and Sieve struggle.d lo under stand wh v
she should have to give up so much,
when she had so Utile to start with
She nor Alien had ever voted Allen's
grandfather James had voted, and
maybe her father-in-law William.
Fanny's son. The only rights she knew
anything of was when she went to one
of the planters on her side of the creek
for a pass, permitting her to go visit
her relatives a quarter mile away,
"some night." she thought. Anger
and fear were frequent visitors in her
heart lately and it was hard for her to
tell which of the two was with her the
most. She knew hat her heart would
always be at war with the people who
killed her family, thought me may
never be able to strike out in anger, or
even fire a shot, still she could hate,
and she vowed that she would do that
much for her slain husband and sons.
"Every time I here that old rain
STmy muJdluUul^ fcmy boy*,
?0 of them out there in the po cousins
before the drain toe* on the world
takes hold of me.
"Stars snre are pretty taught, like
they are tryiug to cheer ne up, but
why? They watched ail the harm done
to my family, wouldn't help them "
Slowly she invites a great sigh of
resignation altercating a final, pence '
in the direction of the dark sw am p. the
way from which her boys would come .
"If only I could quit this life and take I
it up again with the elders." No
consolation would come to her this
night, it would be lonely with much
hurt. Tears would slowly stream from
her eyes until the pillow would he
soaked. The east had begun to lighten
up by now and she knew that he would
not be coming by tonight. She thought
about her son out there in the night,
with no warm food, a cold crouna for
abed. IfhegoesbyJackandBeasly's,
or Patrick's they'II feed him, she knew
or even any of our people up on the
Long Swamp. "Maybe she should
become a grown woman and take her
mind offofall this or even a &BUUOX"
she thought "but then our people have
been conjured to death already "
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