Reader Discusses Federal Recognition
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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 ^
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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
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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
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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
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