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Reader Discusses Federal Recognition s'iiSattM arcsss HahhW. and the last one wh about two aMnchs apo They typed n up tM <hd sot print it Hp It's bid when you doM^owJM eye mdtry^o crop rod total ct> juice Hit m your left a Well hero goes, mot CI toton's ftrikmhad your out. bet gim up tahjr, in odwr word* prim this one Two nights aoo, I went over loicc along time frteudand^roi^y one of on Indian* and iodun Aflain on the Aamrtean Indian Movement and activist, ay Mend ha* always kept a dona watch on Indian tames. While ha cafed names of personal friends in We Indian oommnnity that aaost people only mad about. He knows Indians and he knows the situarinu 1 was wondering why he was wandag to am me, no one had told me he wanted to am me, I just knew he wanted to see me, a spiritual connection When he got off me phone after his second conversation we started to talk He told me that the federal guide lines had Anally come onl far recognition, a revised veraoa, end that Lnabees would moat I dallaiiely qualify He wanted to know what was going on with the crew. I I aorta gave him a somewhat rundown oftheartunttoaas bestaslknew it and I told him feat I waa thinking of cutting I up my Lumbee card and mailing it I back to the Lumbee inbe and Ac enrollment office. Let me make it clear for you folks 1 told him I got one word for the federal government I told him thai it I started with a "K" and ended with a "P" and I believe I did something with the fingers an my right hand to I Wow my appreciation the federal evciv person la Affirm Hard of the government mi America one wm b.g reservation They mil tell you how many beans and how much bard tact or fat back you can have Tint u all laduas get, beans and finback, and a re >ef v at ton The federal government u trying to devise plan* to control people* lives from cradle to grave, they already do that for federal Indian*, they want to do it for ail Americans one day. One and one half million babies don't make to the cradle each year thanks to the federal government. If the federal government has its way. there will be a lot more early graves for the old folks Yon don't get something for nothing (hends. If you ofyour life to same one else, they will finally tell yoa what to do, when to do it. and how to do it. The productive rod prosperous fenner wfaooncc raised hogs to supplement his fern and table, will now have to have hog parlors that he has to tend to seven days a week Why he might be like the prodigal son. he would have to eat with his hogs. The animal rights people could Ca law passed that what you feed gs has to be fit for human consumption I am beinga little funny friend, but you know what, stranger things have happened like congress being exempt from every law it passes Back to my friend, our conversation turned to the western PequatsoRonnecticui I"heyhadtheir first Pow Wow this year. Their competition money was the biggest in the history of America. S300.000 dollws. 3/10 of a million dollars They said they made millions on the Pow Wow. Tlie Western Pequats have the largest gambling operation on the east coast When the state of Connecticut talks about ecooomic development now, it it always in partial of the western Pequats ThryteUmt thai one member ofthe board director* of LJRDA said that if Lumbees pet tederaJ recognition, he will be a milhnasari iinhhiaaaomh My friend told me that if Tommy Dial was still Lumbees ^^ShdrnT mi"K>aA<fc ,f told him Tanmy woald b?b liionaire withia a month i f Lumbees got federal recognition. See with Federal recogdtion yon can apply for Casino licenses. What abom W5 and Southern org sailed crime? Love and marriage go together like a hone and carriage. Only problem with gambling is that it does not produce any butter and eggs. What is does produce is something you don't want or do you? I finally ashed my head if the Indian soul is for sell? He said his wasn't, and mine's not either. I won't even talk about the constitution committee. When God fearing men stand before a God who knows no fear, they have to give an account for the deed done in the body while the breath of life still paaaed there in. Well, you decide my friend, what is Uncle Sam up to. I was born an Indian, I am an Indian, and I intend to die a "free" Indian. Not some programmed "Washington Red Skin" of the federal government. God made me free and that 's the way he intended it to be. How much is your soul worth9 Twenty four silver dollars and a hand full of beads. The Bible say "what does it profit a man ifhe earns the whole world, and looses his own soul1' Or whai can a man give in exchange for his soul? ' Be careful my friends that you don't become like the federal government hog fanner. He didn't own the bogs, the hogs owned him. Funny bow things got turned around, but it wasn't anything to laugh about. Harold a Dim! Maryland ^ REFLECTIONS by AHa Ny Oxandin* j My main reason for headings is so that readers can skip down and choose where they want to begin reading Also leave owl pans if they like Prmytr Memimdm After all these yean. I think I've FINALLY found a place for my personal prayer requests i people and things to prey for) as well as other important prayer reminders. ONE m6hE use for thoee EXCITING (to |W OV VVMBv WHO flfVMN KH0H) . 10 order to keep his place 10 the hymnbook when he was singing in the choir) happened to be working at a place like 3M, where be could experiment until he found JUST the riptf combination of paper and 'glue" to work for hm (AND for people like I can cut the notes in half for the names of PERSONS to pray for Of come, some reminders need the v. hole note. Now I've started sticking these aoteeonmy window shade just above the sink-one place where if s hard to keep from seeing them during the day Whmever I know that one or two people need special prayer on a particularday, I can make their names more conspicuous with a nutL i< market mwyvyiimwuT w.wsww^n, or let them aside in a special spot This way I can "zero in oo asking God's help and guidance each time 1 see their name throughout the day. A man might come up with a very different kind of "prayer request place." like a pellicular spot in the garage or something he could carry with him to and from work to keep names and other prayer reminders handy In my 66 plus years I've come to know so many people in Robeson County, out West, and other places, that up to now. I've never been able to figure out a system to even keep up with those people who have PERSONALLY asked me to pray for them <and their families) over the years. Of course, the Prayer Journal ordered from Chuck Swindol! has a lot of places for prayer requests each week, as well asa column for recording "ANSWERED PRAYERS!" Looks like I need to use both places, in order to remember to KEEP communicating with the ONLY ONE with enough WISDOM. LOVE AND POWER to direct our lives in the way each of us needs to go. I Fruyimg Is there anthing we CANT pray about? NO, I doot believe there is' I still have one Indian child. But I myself am a Lumbee only by my marriage to Leon. So I am not as personally concerned with the new tribal constitution as most readers of the Carolina Indian Voice. However. I would like to encourage all L urn bees to seek daily adivice from our Creator concerning all issues, including this one. In our own limited wisdom none of us human beings can ALWAYS know what is best. But I firmly believe that the One who MADE us does! And I'm convinced that HE also knows better than you and I how to see things from the other person's point of view. Sometimes, I believe, it's necessary to try doing this (with His help) if we are ever to get our issues resolved. I'm saying this as a person who is not taking sides, but who sincerely cares about EVERYONE on all sides ofthis issue. Currrrent Events If events around us did not keep happening so fast, maybe I could keep writing about the experiences that mean the most to me personally, like the recent celebration of Holy Week and Easter. However. I believe that hose events are TIMELESS! Since they are central to our Chirstian faith, it's he I p ftil to think about them aiI year long. Jew* and Chin/ions Although we celebrate our new year at very different times of the year. Jews and Chinstians have many things in common.. JESUS was. of course, a Jew. We often say that Chiristianity grew out of Judaism. When I visited Temple Beth-El in Lumbetton during the High Holy Days in September several years ago. 1 immediately feltasense of fellowship with the Jewish congregation, as they were using the same scripture passages we Christians have in our Old Testament In December Jews observe the eight-day festival of Hanukah. around the time that Christians are celebrating Christmas. Then there is Maundy Thursday, when we Christians observe Jesus' "last supper" with His disciples Actually, this supper in tne "upper room" began with the Jews' annual Seder meal, a "Passover" observance using special foods as reminders of how the Hebrew people were to show the death angel to pass over those houses with blood from an unblemished lamb spread above and 1 mm % ( I * I H ? I M CATALYTIC CONVERTERS ? ? ? B TUNC-UPS -U B X^^BMOCJ^bmorber^^^ 1 vU^yJyjQ^QyyjQ^ffguiHTMiniinciMJiii 1 ? CALL FOR ESTIMATES ? ffl V MMMU WW 1739-83941! j ? 1010 W 5THST , LUMBERTOM fl B? FIVE MINUTES FROM F95 & J^ANNDOCKLEA^I "27 Tears HandsOn Experience" 8 Years - Deputy Clerk of Superior Court 10 Years ? Assistant Clerk of Superior Court I A PBOVB* BBCOaD OP SARD VDU, PAHRBM Alio nrrsowTr. vsw SOU ulB ke appreciated and win keep her asperteaee and innnltnW werkiag for tk? Paid tor by the I oinmituv u? Lkxt Jo Aim Locktcai Clerk of Superior Court Kobcam i ount? I I ^ Respect at Drastic Low I am writing m response to an article I read the other day atom Ac lack of reaped in the wood today. I agree. reaped is at a dnatic low. and it saddens me. Native American* through the year*, have generally had great remed fix all tongs. That was oae of the many things they couldn't understand about the Europeans, who generally had a great lack of reaped People camiot just oae day decide to be respectful, ifthey have bo respect, or be a person or morals or integrity. if they have none, or Holy unto tbe Great Spirit All Mighty God unless they are changed on the inside The only way this change can truly come about is to accept (the Son of tbie Great Spirit) Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior This is not a sd of law to confuse people, but a relationship with Jesus Christ. The King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and Chiefof Chiefs! (Romans 6:23) "For the wages of sin pays in death, but the gift of God is eternal li fc through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord I thank my Father God through Jesus Christ for giving me good physical eyes. But I thank him more for opening my spiritual eyes Ned (eaigle Eye) Hickman Chocowinity Tribe on both sides of the door. Otherwise the fust-bom of each household was to die as a final attempt to persuade Pharaoh to let the Hebrew people leave Egypt and return to their own land (Did you see "The Ten Commandments" on Easter evening?) Through the years I've participated in a number of Maundy Thursday observances (including eating this special Passover meal when Jim Oliver was pastor of First United Methodist * Church). However, this year I came to understand more clearly than ever just HOW the "Lord's Supper" grew out of the traditional Jewish observance celebrating a very important time in Hebrew history. As our pastor, Ron Dietrich, conducted a worship service, beginning with an observance of the Passover, he pointed out what each dish in the Sedar meal represented as a reminder of the Hebrew people preparing to go out from Egypt on their way to Israel. Then he explained how Jesus (on the night that he was later betrayed) ^ passed around to his disciples the very same kind of unleavened bread that was required for the Passover meal, telling the disciples that it represented his body (which would soon be broken), then the same kind of wine they had just drunk to celebreate the Passover, saying that it represented his blood (which would soon be shed). In First Corinthians we find the apostle Paul telling the Corinithan chruch that Jesus had commanded: "Do this in remembrance of me." We Christians have been doing this down through the centuries From now on. as 1 take the bread and "wine" during the "communion service" 1 will remember Jesus and his disciples gathered around the table at that first "Lord's Supper." how Jesus celebrated Passover with them and THEN explaiend (with the bread and wine) what he was about to do for ALL of us! f Having* "^Prospect| | Sound on Your J ? 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