Newspapers / The Carolina Indian Voice … / April 28, 1994, edition 1 / Page 5
Part of The Carolina Indian Voice (Pembroke, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
^Elders and Traditionalist^ V >/ Corner <r The Way I See It to ?'!? When I was a boy, we did all kinds 'fishing, pulled each other in the tia i^wagon, played baeehell, played tag, ??'isnadc bows and arrows, played - owboys and Indiana i the Indian* were the goodgiqrs). went hunting, sneaked into the drive-in and caught rabbits. Sometimes we hunted for rabbits, but that meant you had to have a shotgun and dtolb. Often, we did not have the money for shells. The cheap way tocatoh rabbits is to make arebbtt box. We could make a rabbit box far no < money. We would just find a board i . laying around somewhere, saw it into i.sfour pieces, with two being the same .(length. One had to be shorter than f > these two. and the fourth had to be a / little longer. m . Then we drilled a couple of hoies in die shortest board, one in the middle , for the poet, and one at the back end t for the bait stick. We used onions or i apples for bait, because that's what .(rabbits love. They will eat all kinds of n vegetables, but my theory is that they i Jove onions the most. Or maybe the scent carries better jrl The post would be a forked stick . about IS inches long. We would take T^aknifo and whittle it to fit the hole in toe middle oftoe short board. The bait stick could be some green branch, cut to make a step point, aad a notch to slide under toe hole in toe bond At toe otoaraodoftoe abort board, we would make adoor out of the same piece of board The bait stick and toe door would be aa opposite eato of the balance stick, with most of toe weight oa toe door cad. This door had to slide without haaaiaa ap down the slot in rhe open end ortoe box. The idea was to have toe rabbit come to the box, smell toe bait, eater the box head first to pet at toe bait, and when he was in toe box, nibbling at the bait, the bait stick would slide up the bole, letting the door toll down and trapping bins inside. So toe box had to be long enough to bold a full-grown rabbit. And the hole for the bait stick had to be tor enough toward the hack to let toe rabbit get all the way inside. The wont thing about making a rabbit box was possums. They would C into toe box for toe same reason as rabbit, but they would leave a scent on the box. As long as that scent was there, no rabbit would come back to the box. We didn't eat possums, so we usually had to throw the box away once a possum got into it. Daddy said you could bail a possum spoiled rabbit bo* in hot water and it woukl take the possum scent out of it. but I never tried that The purpose, of course, of ha\ing a rsbbit box wis to have a rabbit to eat Boiled with some vegetables, rabbits are good eating, when I lived in Oklahoma, I used to shoot them with a .22 rifle, and charcoal broil them They are good that way, taste like chicken But my wife and girls didn't like the idea of me killing little ""Tuaed to a* them "Who do you think killed the hog for thai bacon you areemingTSomebodyfandtokiDhim." Monica told me. when she was about ten, "Well, it wasn't me that had to kill him " Rabbits are not the smartest animals in the world. Grady Chavis was hunting in the fields in front of our house one year, and killed s rabbit He took it home, and came back to start hunting at the same place. Right across the ditch waa another rabbit, and he shot and killed that one, too. The second one hadn't learned much, I guess, from the sound of the shotgun. *V W. a "Wi/" 1 arfclrar Dear Mist C ounce, CM Wiz is jus about as tired as ha can be. I'm been going from one of them Pub!.. Hearings on our i umbee Constitution to another. I'm learned akx about what it means to live in s deaaocracy Other than Miaa Cynthia Hunt and Miss Ruth Lock lest who have been at all theae public heatings, a next person thars got to be the ?lest is that B<*n Jacobs that works at that LRDA. Man, he can ask some of the headingest questions. What knocks oi Wiz out is that ha asks the saem questioes at ever hearing I'm glad Miv, Cynthia's got more patiei.ce thanOI Wiz. CM' Wiz. to tell die truth. Miss Coonee, is about sick to death of Mr Ben asking the same questions over and over agin. Course, Miss Connee, after about the third heating. 01 Wiz got to studyin about what Mr. Ban was up to. Maybe he weren't up to nothing, just don't understand democracy too good. But maybe them LRDA boys sent Mr. Ben to tell us something without telling us, if you know what 1 mean. Miss Connee. You aee, Mr. Ben kept right on asking about something he and Miss Cynthia kept caniag "baseline documents." And they kept talking about a master list for people to be able to vote. Now, Miss Coonee. 01 Wiz remembers when we had them blood committees that would sort of decide who of our people was Indian and who were exactly Indian. Now we know who we are. I knowa Lum when I aee him, even if he's at Myrtle Beach. (You know. Miss Connee. that's about as for as CM Wiz travels.) I'm been a studying Miss Connee, reckon them LRDA boys think they can stop us from voting on our constitution because they have the earoifaneat records. Wcll.OlWizdoot know for sure but seems to him that them LRDA boys would be holding ?C14II T|g-Ajx*u^m , ?*hdt don't rtiinkfhatwould be exactly legal. That's really nonver mind tho, cause they sure don't use no document to prove OI Wiz is Indian when he votes in their elections. OI Wiz just walks in there and signs his JOhn .Hancock and votes. Course our. 1 Pine Lake Park ? C s Opening Today!!! Under New Management SwimmingTessons Available > Cfl// 521-2282 For Information S 1 1 ;.i ? . J "? 11 "J1*. ?" ?/|'s -; . - r g, .. ,',, ?..., . - , ] Endorsed By His Peers JUDGES ? PROSECUTORS r DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ? CIVIL ATTORNEYS People who know him. People who have seen him at work in the courtroom. People that have had the opportunity to observe him daily. Robeson County people. They know him. They trust him. They wholeheartedly endorse him. I Chief District Court Judge Charles G. McLean District Court Judge Herbert L Richardson District Court Judge Gary L Lock!ear James Gregory Bel) Woodbeny Bowen David F. Branch, Jr. Evander M. Britt. IU William S. Britt Donald Bollard Brian K. Brooks Edward John Bollard Vanessa Barton Christopher Byeriy John Wishart Campbell IVuett Canady Ertle Knox Chavis Judith Daniels Dak G. Deese Charles Edward Royd Norris Musselwhite Grantham Everett L Henry ?n in It ? - ksruce w. nuggjns Grady Hunt Robert D.Jacobson Brent Udah AHk Jacobs Bruce Jobe W Osborne Lee,Jc Arnold Loddeur W. Jeffery Moore Charlie S. (Mackie) Mclntyr J. Dickson McLean. Jr. William S. McLean John McManus Douglas P. Murray Eddie Mussehvhite J. W. Musseiwhhe Fred L Mussclwhite Richmond H. Page Dallas Pounds Robert Price M. Christopher Kemp David Ramsaur e Ken Ransom George Regan John C B. Regan. Ill D.Jeffrey Rogers Hubert N. Rogers, III Robert Slaughter C Christopher Smith Horace E. Stacy. Jr. Ron Sutton Stan Todd Jeffrey Wynn Earl H. Strickland I JOHN CARTER for DISTRICT COURT JUDGE I Mdfbr by tkcCoMioce to Elect John Carter Judge conttuiMnSllle* ittothemLUDAa ? rioa * boyS|ftg?re9y.ko?^?goOM I A Vote For Stephens Is a Vota For... . H?Con7.d.nc I Efficiency | O Experience yiwx??<?a. ^iWi>iiiF n tm+jm OomW W^KW tefcw Dxmoi Gov* OkA Jim* OmR. OsmNMMM NMong*. <WMg| OlWllH?MI?0*U* met FREDERIA B. STEPHENS UA Statmsivoman Pfrfffntrt to Serving All THs Poopio" Clerk of Superior Court Your Vote & Prayeri Will Be Greatly Appreciated PROGRESSIVE ) SAVINGS A LOAN. LTD. / ll'ui mm??? / *100 I / / MINIMUM BALANCE J l[ CHECKING ACCOUNT / * This $ 100.00 Minimum Balance Checking Account Allows You To Write Checks WITHOUT A SERVICE CHAROS As Los* As The Belence Does Not Fal Mow $100.00. If The Balance Does Fal below $100.00. A *4 00 Monthly Cherge And 30* Per Check Is Necessary. This Account Does Not Ny Interest. DEPOSITS FEDERALLY INSURED TO $IM,M0Jt Sutauatial Naafey For Ewty Withdrawal 'Hal* Sufepct To Cftaays WMmU NoUw ^ i PROGRESSIVE SAVINGS A LOAN, LTD. WMMH TH44N C iBM* 1 "UM?'i *UWgl j f Having ^xProspect ) [Problems with fiatiilll^a Sound on Your Preseirt^^J"*?? i Satellite System? { Call Us!! m Top of the Line Satellite Road kmRecelvera starting at $1,505 Vy. (Installed).Payments as low\\ as $30 month. Sale & \\ Repairs We service any brand. *| CARRY ^ HOUSTON TRACXBt \ ^B^^^Cabk Not Available? \ We Brtng Cable Mehvn Service To i Homely -
The Carolina Indian Voice (Pembroke, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 28, 1994, edition 1
5
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75