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(Elders and Traditionalist)
- Corner
.^Traditionally Speaking ^1
^ Loca'E&riWKv (Tata** Tartte) Jt^\)
: NATIVE AMERICAN
.SPIRITUALITY is very much alive
and spreading throughout our
community as well as the work) at
large In the previous statement. 1 am
Referring primarily to the basic
precepts and concepts of the NATTVE
AMERICAN SPIRITUALITY In
the following paragraphs. 1 will explain
my understanding of this spirituality
First, we recognize thai the
CREATOR is the entity that we all
piust be thankful and prayerful to for
flowing us the opportunity to share
apd love during this lifetime. It is the
CREATOR'S teachings and example
(hat we follow on our spiritual
journeys. We are taught to be caring
and loving persons, and to be
individuals that are fulfilled when we
touch others in a positive manner We
recognize that we as NATIVE
PEOPLE will be measured not by the
amount of material items that we
collect during our lifetime but the
numberof people we touch with deeds
of love and concern. During our daily
routine, when we touch someone by
showing our love and concern for
them and witness the positive results
of this sharing, the feeling that we
experience could not be purchased for
a billion dollars. Positive attitudes
and actions beget positive reactions
and attitudes. We as NATIVE
PEOPLE will share the other reality
yrith the CREATOR, when we treat
our fellow human beings, the
en vironment. animals, trees and other
plants with respect and honor without
trying to conquer and dominate these
entities. It is through love, respect,
honor and caring that we will achie\e
our true goal of ascending to be with
tlie CREATOR in that other reality
Our practice of NATIVE
SPIRITUALITY involves a daily
lifestyle not a one day a week
experience. We believe that we must
be in touch with the CREATOR every
minute of everyday of every year. To
practice our spirituality one must make
a lifelong commitment to respect and
tomjr the CREATOR AND
CREATIONS without rfegaf$lp
differences that ftiay exist. .tins means
ending negativity in your life,
eliminating the desire to be
judgmental, pursuing caring
relationships with your fellow human
beings regardless of differences,
honoring mid respecting our elders,
and loving others as we love ourselves.
So I suggest that as we continue along
the road to the future with all the trials
and tribulations that we extend love to
one another in the NATIVE
AMERICAN SPIRITUAL
TRADITION and not messages of
hate. To truly succeed, we must work
together as friends and not separate as
enemies
Recently. I have read many
different authors who have been
writing about spiritualism throughout
the world and have found it interesting
that all of these authors describe a
spiritualism that it very much like the
NATIVE AMERICAN
SPIRITUALISM. It is refreshing to
realize that the world at large also
respects the spiritualness of the
CREATOR AND ALL HIS
CREATIONS. Remember if we love
and respect each other as we have
been taught to do. then we are some of
tbe richest people on mother earth. In
the past several weeks the power of
love and caring has been reaffirmed in
my own life making me one wealthy
fellow and 1 hope that you also have or
will discover this power.
On The Pow /
Wow Circuit ^
The following list of upcoming powwows is not intended to be a
complete list. Anyone having information about upcoming powwows
not listed is encouraged to send them to: Wild Turkey. P.O. Box 1075,
Pembroke. NC 28372 or fax to (910) 521-1975.
* January 28-30.1994. Powwow. Ashe ville. NC 410-788-0689.919
257-1720
* February 12.1994. Native American Powwow. The North Carolina
School of Science and Mathematics. Charles R. Elber Physical Education
Center. Durham, NC. Joe Liles. 919-286-3366.
* March 18-20 Pow-Wow Greenville. NC(4l0)788-0689. (919)257
1720
* March 25-26. 1994-Annual Festival of the Four Holes Indian
Organization (The Natchez ICusso Tribe). Call (803) 871-2126
* April 1-2 NC State University Pow-Wow. Reggie Oxendine (9.19)
839-2214
* April 9. Duke University Pow-Wow. DanaChavis(9l9)6l3-!942
* April 15-17 Haliwa-Saponi Pow-Wow. Hollister. NC (919)586
4017
* April 22-24 Raleigh. NC Pow-Wow. (410) 788-0689. (919)257
1720
* April 29-5/1 Harrisburg. PA (410) 788-0689 or (919)257-1720
* May 6-8 Metrolina NA Association Pow-Wow
* May 21-22 Richmond Community College (919) 582-7071
* June 16, 17. 18. & 19. Rebirth of the Traditional Spiritual
Gatherings, a Tribute to the Great Spirit, Father of all Indian nations.
North Carolina Indian Cultural Center. Call Spotted Turtle (910) 521
4178. Painted Turtle (910) 521-0020 or Wild Turkey (919) 521-2826.
* June 24-25 Allentown. PA. Pow-Wow (410)788-0689
* July 15-17 Howard County. MD (410) 788-0689. (919) 257-1720
* July 29-31 Virginia Beach. (410) 788-0689 or (919) 257-1720
* August 26-28 Baltimore American Indian Center Pow-Wow (410)
675-3535
?A-i7C
* November 7-13 Great American Indian Expo (410) 788-0689
* November 21-27 Native American Pow-Wow. Baltimore. MD
(410)675-3535
PWay I See It
' by Dr. Dtu Chavara, PraaUaat
Native A?rtcia iihbirt^ M
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When 1 was 11 years old. Daddy 1
bought me my first horse. That was 1
the year they decided I was old enough
to work the farm.
! We had tenants before, from 1946 '
Until 1952 But our fium was sosmall.
26 acres including swampland, that it 1
could not really support one fiunily.
much less two
I" Daddy could not work because he
hkd been mustard-gassed in WWI. {
that, and a lifetime of drinking and
smoking, had left him with lungs so
weak he had trouble breathing. Later. 1
the VA hospital found he had encysted
tB
!; I had been pulling tobacco for three
years by then. 1 stalled that when I w as
eight years old. I had also hauled
stable manure, hauled 200-pound bags
of fertilizer, and cut tons of firewood
. So I had already been doing man's
work.
We had not had a horse or mule for
I years until then. When I got home
from school that day. this brown
Belgian horse was in the stable We
decided to call him Dan. after the
famous race horse Dan Patch
Dan was not a race horse, however
He was a draft horse, and was young
when we got him probably five years
old He was so full of energy he could
and did pull a two-horse disk and a
two-horse turning plow by himself
Most of the time, we would borrow
my great-aunt Margarette's mule and
team them together
It w as not a good team Dan w anted
to run in the traces, and the mule,
being twice as smart, wouldn't run if
you beat her Somehow. I disked and
broke land for most of the next five
years with that pair
Dan had to be broken every spring
We had no pasture, and had to keep
him in a stable and lot all winter.
When it came time to take him out to
start plowing in February, he was foil
of vim and vinegar
Every year I had to let him run if off
for a few days before he wore himself
down enough to walk in front of a
plow. I tried to ride him bareback to
let him run it off. and he threw me off
time after time. I hooked him to a
tobacco crate or a drag and let him go.
and he would try to run away
Once he tore my left ear half off in
Uncle Bill Thompson's front yard He
had a bad habit oftuming in at people's
lanes I would be on his back, and let
him run, especially back toward home
But he would not stay on the road.
The day he tore my ear. he turned
suddenly into Uncle Bill's drive way
He made a 90 degree turn to the right
and I made a 45 degree turn. I landed
on a pile of lumber, on the side of my
head. Somehow. I held onto the lines,
got back up. and led him home
Momma taped the ear up. and it grew
back together. We didn't have any
money'for a doctor
Dan had big feet, not the little feet
ofa mule And he did not watch where
he put them. I would be hitching him
up. and he would be trying to keep the
flies off with his tail and his legs. The
next thing I knew, his big foot would
be on top of my little bare foot It hurt
like the dickens
He could also step on more corn,
cotton, and tobacco plants than any
four mules I ever worked. He hated to
turn around at the end of the row. and
it was usually a fight between him and
me to get him into the right row
without tearing up half the crop
But Dan taught me a lot He taught
me responsibility He had to be fed
and watered twice a day. every day.
year round. I had to do it Once when
i did not. celebrating a sale of tobacco,
he got hungry and tore his eyelid half
off. trying to reach outside the fence
to eat some grass. That vet cost me
half the S401 had gotten from my old
brown and green tobacco. I always
fed him on tune after that. Ole Dane
was a heck of a horse.
^^^^Native American
f POWWOW
The North Carolina School of Science Jc Mathematics
Charles R. Eilber Physical Education Center
Durham, North Carolina
February 12,1994
III II
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Dear MmCoMKC
Well, ow delegates on our tribal
consutussunara aseetingthis Snhnday.
My niece My* they an moving ak>ny
wtili tm en? itatico aad that if
everything (Ml well, they'll have It
ready soon for us to vole an
I got to studying about aiy Pa and
Ma. Mu? Coanee They woe hard
working people all their bfcaad they
were pood people. Pa was the kind of
maa that whan he gave yon his word,
it stood for something 'cause he stood
behind it. There .1 loo many of oar
people aow whose word just ain't ao
good. One day foty'm this way, sad
the next day they're another way
Now. you take a maa like thai and
give him a little edncarion. aad you
St a whole new breed. He can talk all
y aad whea he's done, you aaill
don't know what he's said or where he
stands. Oh. it's likely to sound good,
but like the man who built his bouse
on sand, this word crumbles when a
good wind stirs up.
Now. there's a aew wind stirring
amongst the people, aad it's a mtahty
good wind, MissConnee. Some of our
people, but not all of them, have grown
soft in their ways. They tolerate the
evil amongst us cause they're a-scared
somebody will bun down theit bam.
take their job. or something worse.
Some sec no point in ayiag. 'cause
they figure it ain't much use Now.
these are the weak amongst us and we
strong ones have to shoulder them
Maybe, we have to be little bit stronger
cause of our brothers and sisters mat
are too weak to stand on their own.
Now. all this could aggravate the day
lights out of you. but we're still bound
to help pur brothers and sisters when
they are weak
You take a manor woman who is
weak in these things, and give him a
reason to stand that means something
to them nnd you can't shake him. I've
been thinking that thnl is what our
delegates are doing for our people
They'te giving our brothers ana sisters
who can't stand for themselves a
reason for doing what they already
know in their hearts is the right thing
to do. They just need a reason. Miss
Connee. to oo the right thing
Now. there'll always be those that
even when yon give them a reason for
doing what tbe\ already kaow ia tkt
nghi thui^ to ck) they'll (till be Ike
weak pmoa they are. They'd law
Hi/^vaa airiAfiat *L^/ > ? 1 e livraae*
"?vi? cAvUgCa iiaaii v ii?vf s fV ?? vvi
palfta. All v^c caedo for them Mm
over to the Lord. And be mighty
pWeM thai they ain't the majority.
Now. I (brute thai our constitution
will be oar weed as people Since I 'm
pat of the people. I'm wanting oar
people's word lo stand tor something,
Mies Connee I don't want people to
come and say well we agreed to this,
bat our leaders are doing something
else. A man and a woman needs to
for something. Instant, they cant
take much pride in themselves at a
people . And no pride causes a heap of
trouble for all of as.
Course. I've keen told that oar
delegates have taken this into acoount
and have provided us a way to deal
with such Isadsrs And I'm mighty
glad about that 01 Wis wants to be
sun he's got a vote aad be sun it
stands for something. And we give
people e chance to represent us oa our
tribal government But if they mess
us. and you know some of'em will,
sure'tyou're bora. Then, 01 Wiz don't
want to have to put up with it til be
dies. 01 Wiz just wants a way to
remove bad apples and ourdstopatet.
I hear, have provided us with that.
Some of these old idess by our
delegates teems to have some of
leaders a little nervous, but it's seems
a mighty simple thing to me. fuel be as
good ? your word and you won't have
to worry 'bout nothing. Youkaew. Pa
uaad to my "it's a bad wind that don't
never change "Ohyes,MissCooaae,
a new wind is a stimag amongst the ?
people and the Hutr that it being
but It by the people, for the people, and
of the people snail stand.
Guess I'll be talking to you again
real toon. Every time 01 Wiz thinks
he can quit talking about the
constitution and politics amongst our
people, people just keep insisting that
he keeps on talking. So. I'll try to
oblige them that likes what I my. And
to them that dont like h. I'm bound to
keep talking 'cause I want to stand for
something Otherwise, I might foil for
anything
1
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