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Over the past tew weeks lolks in ! Roben County, especially pabbc school iwdesu, have had the opportwuty 10 be inspired by one of America's foremost Native American writers. Simon Ortiz is a member of Mexico, and holds a master's degree m writing from the University of Iowa. He has taught Native American creative writing and literature at the University of New Mexico and - else where He has been honored at the White House, and has written many books, poems and other works. He was brought here in main part by dre efforts of Barbara Braveboy two North Carolina Native American women who are active in the world of literature and arts. His purpose here is to encourage folks to write about their own experiences, history and culture, and from all indications he is doing an excellent job of it. This is due in part, no doubt, to bis warm personable I first beard of Simon Ortiz back in 1974 when one of bis stories appeared in what was to become one of my favorite books. The Portable North American Indian Reader (edited by Frederick Turner). The Ortiz story is called "Kaiser and the War" (iviginally printed in New Memo Quarterly in 1969), and it is tare of the best examples of the short story form anywhere. In it Ortiz tells us about Kaiser, a Native American who didn't want to go in the army and who some people thought of as crazy. The story shows government men aiming to the reservation to get Kaiser, ma being able to find him. and tea resorting to employing other Indian men ai prides to ioek for Kaiser Here ?the deadly apparent draft-evader, Ortiz fives us "The officials for tte Indian Attars didn't give up tough- They sheriff had decided it wasn't worth it, besides be had a whole county to take care of. And the Indians were deputized again. More of them volunteered dus time, sane had to be lamed away They had figured out how to wort it: they wouldn't have to tell, if they knew, where Kaiser was. AU they would have to do was walk and say front time to time, 'Maybe he's over there by that canyon. Used to be there was some good hiding places back when the Apache and Navabo were raising h---.' And some would go over there and some in the other direction, investigating good hiding places. But after camping around Black Mesa for a week this time, the Indian Affairs gave up. They went by Faustin's house the day they left for Albuquerque and left a message: the government would wait and when Kaiser least expected it, they would get him and he would have to go to jail. "Kaiser decided to volunteer for the army..." Of course Kaiser ends up being put in prison anyway, for evading the government men. Some folks from the reservation went to the prison to visit him: "And when someone asked Kaiser if he was okay, he said he was fine and he guessed he would he was around fern ?o much." Ike war fatally cads and the story goes ok "My father and a couple of other gays wot down lo ie Indian Affairs office to see what dtcy oonld find out about Kaiser. They were loid thai Kaiser was going 10 have lo stay in the pen longer now because he had tried lo kill somebody. Well, he just went crazy one day. and be made a mistake so he'll just have lo stay in for a couple more years or so. the Indian Affairs said. That was the first anybody heard of Kaiser trying to kill somebody, and same people said why the h - - - didn't they put him in the army far that like they wanted lo in the fust place..." But Kaiser eventually comes home wearing the gray suit he was issued when released from prison, and Ortiz shows us bow he has been changed by his experience: "When they reached home, his sister and nephew were very happy to see him. They cried and laughed at the same time..." To find out what happened to Kaiser, and mare about Simoo Ortiz's other writings, see next week's segment of Along The Robeson Trail. Or, if you can't wait (or if you want to read the whole wonderful story yourself) check your local library or bookstore for The Portable North American Indian Reader. If they don't have it, ask them lo order it for you. For more information, visit the Native American Resource Center in Old Main Building, on the campus of Pembroke State University. The Sunday School Lesson hy Jttkn It. Bmybm. Salem Mixxitmury Buptist Chunk Wad h* E?U*i I. Paul's Introduction and Christ ? Lordship II Thanksgiving III Longing to visit Rome IV Readiness to Preach V The Power of the Gospel Verse to Remember "I am not tdiamed of the eoapel of Christ, lot it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone thai believetb '' Romans I 16 In the first verse. Paul declared himself a servant of Jetwrl hnsi and operated unto the Gospel of God The Apostle Paul had committed his life to the cause of Christ and the furtherance of the gospel ai anv cost Verse 2 tellsofthe promise spoken of to the forefathers of prophets oncernmg Christ's redemption lot man atoretime Paul was reminding the Romans iluu he was a servant lo tell of to reveal this promise Verses '-"? Paul we remember from Acts no doubt w as addressing armed ongregation of Jews and Gentile > In these verses Paul pomisuut concerning lesus thai He w as the Son of loud hui a as also man and through the line apt or seed of David and the sptni of holmes* by the resutTechon from iht dead We are righteous or holy not b> our works or deeds but by the newness of life through the finished woti at Calvary We nave life in us because of the resurrection Another thing we see in Verse * is the grace ofGoathai wv have received hum Christ, given freelv to all who believe Along w ith that Grace comec obedience to the faith Graves gives us a desire to serve Cmd and to Iw pleasing to imd We cannot do mvthing for God apart from tin* grace of God In V cries t> and 1 Paul makes hh>m m Rome aware thai because of tluu grace we ate not onlv called oi lesus Chrtat. but also saints Paul ends ibis introduction with glory to God and iesus Christ from which our grace comes Verse 5. Paul gives thanks to C>od through Jesus Christ for theirfenh No doubt the fiuth of the church at Rome reached far beyond the boundaries of Koine 11 was talked about throughout the whole world Our faith and out example of Christian living ought u? be esemplifled m this manner VenesWl? Theapostie Paul mud he made mention ol them m Ins wa? hi* witness to thai Too main limes someone asks us to pray for them and we say thai we will but we do ikm Paul had a bond and a desire lor the saints at Rome and wanted to see them continue to mature in the worl of the Lord We outfit to always pray for others and try to be an encouragement to them Paul had a desire to visit the Romans and to share in their jov He wanted to share some spiritual yitt We ought to alwavs be ready and *v illmg to share our latent* - or girt* with others Paul wanted to fellow ship with the saints at Rome Through fellowship he could be com toned and they could be also The fellowship of God's people is important in our Christian lite because we can share our mutual taith and be encouraged to go on. In verse I.' Paul staled thai he was hindered trom coming to them even though he had purposed to HE desired ' truii of them as among other Gentiles Paul's greatest desire was to see souls saved fo? Christ sake Tudav I am all aid we t- l toil's people have 'osi thai burning desne to see >ouls saved Verse* '4-1" In verse 14 Paul in essence said ? have an obligation lo theGemile*. wise and unwise "Thai obligation being to preach the gospel ibtrth death, burial, resurrectioni of !esus( hnst Verae I.V Paul stales thai he's read* to preach the gospel at I Rome also Paul had a burning desire to witness for Christ at every opportunity whether at Rome or Macedonia or wherever By the same token we need to follow Paul's example of telling others about the grace <4 God In verae 16 Paul states his boldness about the gospel He is not ashamed of the gospel of Christ It is tlie power of God unto salvation to ever sunt thai believeth. iu the lew first ami also to the meek There is power hi the gospel of C hnsiandwith that power we can have boldness to tell others the wonderiy newsof Jesus In Verae 16 the apoatle Paul gives a rev elation that through the gospel we can see the righteousness of God In the latter phoue of this verae Paul states what God instituted from the beginning of creation "The lust shail live bv faith Hebrews 13:1 says Faith is the substance of things hoped tm. the ev idence of things not seen " All through the ages man has walked bv faithwithCiodandGudstill expects the iimi to walk b. taith The Coach's Corner byPr.K? tifcsm ******* *?. What hat happened lo thte requirement' Who i? recpunetble tar dropping it from the laet three veert of toph echooT Thu *pme*h Hems from the Mate Jt perianal of puMk uutructtoa an down I'm cure if the rune department of public nut ruction had been manned by noa-cchuianhto men thu would never have happened limy juat don't cm dm conch canuu enough to want to do gym claaaec and coach tao.eapectally mcollejee font The "total qhtrtc program concept" wetdoeaafeaitf anymore "Ihnolleur xrnch muar teem* to pet a amen and tie doean't have time in tench f C <! Iumi So the administrator* rvmpathize ?ith turn and iitf dow n hi* teachm? hours from 15 Hours i?, 12 , hours and lam la the mean tune km mam kids ate turning to drays just because the\ doa't know how to ptav seasonal mom Idle hands yet into trouble n? ?''knowledge object! \? *' as shown by the media's scat scores has shown the "physical objective" is of no aMereat to the sports aaues Notuace at 25 /ears has the chairman P1 M PSlTs asms ever hsca m the paper' Why'* Because the\ just doni car* about the No I objective of Heah h wtrvttv It has to be taught, act "eot' Tnummg The way it looks. I'm going to have to use port of each column just to correct mistakes This tune n > spelling Unlike math, spelling was a) ways easy far me wlten I w as gr> >w mc up In feci, one day m filth giade I cried when I pot my paperback w ithou the usual '100 " It turned out that I d heard the word wrung Instead of parade. " I wrote down hurras Actually. I've spent most of ins lifeasa perfectionist." Motaperson who does things PERFECTLY, but a person who (like most of my family i seemed to be bom with a need for perfection and who also gress up belies ing that she was SUPPOSED to lo everything perfectly' I ve had a t'ASSFAlL mentalits Anything les? than perfect was NO GOOD. I thought Dunking like this can leally SLOW VOL' DOWN And when you're slow ?dreads, vou NEVER get caught up -THE STORY OF MY LIFE V ears ago. I began to realize that trying tor perfection in esery little thing is neither realistic nor necessars But that idea reinforced in childhood back when I thought i M 1ST A K E Nl. Y > that I had to EARN tnv parents lose has kept ON tripping me up By now. at 66. with my weekls column mistakes, along with plents of other kinds each das. I MAN he uetiing OVER li at last' THANKFULLY, vou and I do not nave lo LaRN the lose ?>! out 'IEas FNLN parent out I >ean>r savior Lord Spelling \ antes ( orreclh ? Mil! uciicvc imcic die tucdi witeic accuracs is important Like using names correctls. in speaking and in writing. In fact. I often ask a person u he she would prefer to be called b\ the name gis en at birth or bv a nickname W hen our Donny was a baby I decided tocallhimby THAT name tor awhile since Donald Kay sounded so formal Tomv surprise. it stuck Only in class ami ROTC did Ik want to be balled am thing but Doom And I unlike my mother' I've learned to call my brothers (Russell and Stanley! just Kuvn ami stan Last linn I was late delivering my column lit agar I was Irving lo Itiiti ihe correct spelling tor a couple of the Otvmptv ithleie's names (Hading, ha Tom a. was a typo Guess we all know she grew up as a HARDING * However, later the same. I discovered that I should have written Duncan i not Doug) Kennedy and Monica SELES inot Sellarsi I don't think I'll forget those names again Disappointments and Tragedies Since Dan Jansen DID finally win HIS LONG AWAITED gold medal, mavbe I <ould substitute Scott Davis <a lei low Mot Italian tfum Great Falls andtlie current I' S men schampion figure >kater> as one of many DISAPPOINTED athletes who need our support and our pravers Scott Haniilion said he had never seen Davis tall Am BADLY as he did in his second aneinpt lor a medal Then he added that David will he hack Laielv I've been taking a special interest in athletes ifom both my native state <MTi and m\ adopted stale (NC| Let '< also remember each Olvmpn athlete tannic whete there lias been SCRKM S injury or SEVERE tragedy And ?! .outse WORLD situations liki- ilt? fragile "cease-fire" in satan i >ite >1 the 'V84 Winter Olympics aikI rite selling of out nation s*i.reisiotlie notorious KGB an cAiicinciy ?vcii-oigamz.cu international agency that, for decades, lias been legularly using diplomats stationed in this countrv as spies Also let's pin, rot all involved in tragedies like the recent one at Laurel Hill 1pilaw Mother seents to be doing okay after anotliei tall and a new cold THAN ICS to ail who remember her in " prayer frum time to hme. She was surprised to be gi ven a crown ro wear al day as "queen" by the nursing home cm Valentine Day (I really wasn't Fortunately, even * 97 she is mote friendly, active and alert than most of the other residents there.). TUx and That Sometimes I really miss having a car Like last week, when I did not ben get my column in. Guess what! After eight and a half years. I finally got my LAST two braces off. They were left there to hold those two teeth in place until I got my lower bridge. In the meantime, money got spent for other things, including a used word processor A temporary bridge is in place, waiting for the permanent one to be built and installed ." Glad I got mv teeth straightened first even if IW AS in my late fifties before teaming it could help my TMJ (jaw) problems. What a relief to be getting this matter cared tor. after YEARS of thinking about it Lent?A Good Time To Take Inventory As a Protestant I've never paid a lot of attention to Lent. After all. I was not interested in things like the Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday." To me one time of the year was about the same as another But when I taught a children's Sunday School class at First UMC. I began to see the importance of thinking about Jesus' life and teachings between Christmas and Easter Then last vear I read a devotional booklet put out by at atholii group The Bboklet covered ?iic peiHxi of LENT. The writing for each day focused on preparing ourselves personally for the observance of "Holy Week." particularly Good Friday and Easter What better time of the year to do this, than during those weeks leading up to Easter, that we call "Lend " Caroiiaa ladiaa Voice it published every Thursday by First American Publications 304 Normal St. ? Co Mags Ptaza Post Office Box 1075 Pembroke. North Carolina 28372 Phone (919) 521-2826 Fax (919) 521-197S Connea Brayboy. Editor Helen Loddear. Office Manager Subscriptions One year in NC. $20.00 Out of state. $25.00 Pembroke. 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