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VOLUME 22 N1 ]R 1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1994 TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
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WUkins Honot For h ealth Service
* Craig S Wilkins, a Health Services Officer with the United States Public
' Health Service, recently received statewide recognition from the Governor's
Office in Wyoming as part of the Rocky Mountain Health Challenge
The program was initiated in 1988 when the governors of 8 western states
signed a challenge document in a regional effort to reduce premature death
mid disability. The program conducts an annual awards program to give
recognition to outstanding health projects throughout the 8 state region. -
Wilkins was recognized and received an award on behalf of Indian
Heath Service that was presented by the Honorable Mike Sullivan,
Governor of Wyoming, at a special ceremony in the State Capitol built&ng
in Cheyenne.
Wilkins,formerly of Pembroke, is the son of Daniel <tnd Thedis Wilkins
and is currently stationed at Pork Washakie, Wyoming.
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School News ?
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News From Purnell Swett High
They learned haw to make gingerbread houses, meringue mush
rooms, peanut butter bon bans, creamy fudge, and snow flakes.
't Purncll Swett High Kitchen Elves
havebeenvery busy preparing Christ
, mas treats for their village
The Food and Nutrition Classes,
taught by Miss Maureen Dial, have
been learning how to make ginger
bread houses, meringue mushrooms,
peanut butler bon bons. creamy fudge,
snow flakes and lots of other confec
tionery treats
The Christmas project produced a
confectionery village shown above
The elves entertained in a en
chanted winter wonderland with a
delightful social for villagers, and a
delicious hot roasted turkey dinner ^
with all the trimmings. featuring fresh
cranberry sauce, yeast rolls, home ?
grown collards with homemade chow
chow The PSH Elves hope you had
a merry Christmas and a happy new
year with some sweet treats along the
way
by Miss Maureen Dial
Jennifer Pipkens wot chosen ? Mont Outstanding Junior by the
HmftuiAi Chamber of Commerce. Onidance Counselor, Rosa
Pearson it shown with Jennifer.
Parenting and Child \
Development Class
Students in Parenting and Child
Development have been learning
'? about how children grow and how
parents can influence their develop
ment Safety posters were made to
demonstrate and inform others of
hazards pertinent to various ages.
The* made play doh, puzzles,
hoots, bean bags and stain-glaaswin
dow cookies to aee how parents and
cm, pvers can mmulate mind, of
prcaCfiOOlf rs
FHA
The FH A has developed a " Strang
er* Safety" program to take to the
aftcrachool care programs at sevcraJ
local schools This is pat of a stale
KhA project We have developed a
Art. story telling, take home pam
phlet to help educate children and
their families Our first presentation
as to children at Prospect School
After Christmas. FHA pians to work
with children at Pembroke Elemen
tary School and R.B Dean School
V-'-"- C,Smoke Signals
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by Wendy Moore Ledwetl
As promised in last week's issue,
this is the first publication of Lumbee
Smoke Signals. Smoke Signals is an
informative approach into Die actions
taken by the Lumbee-Cheraw Gov
ernment Before I attempt to explain
ordinances or resolutions, let me de
fine the two 1 Ordinance is law
Laws apply to all members of the
tribe
2. Resolution is only expressed
opinion
All ordinances are posted in the
Pembroke Post Office and also each
council member is given copies to be
posted in public access areas of their
district. A posting period of (10) ten
days is given for tribal membership to
review proposed ordinances If for
any reasons tribal members contest
such ordinances, an initiative proce
dure may be taken. This procedure is
found in the Lumbee Constitution
Article 3 Sec lb.
The following are brief summari
/ations of actions taken by the tribal
government
November 7. 1994
Resolution 94-1: This resolution
states that any organization or agency
who purports to act on behalf of the
Lumbee Tribe, in actions including
application for grants, programs or
services, must first request tne Tribal
Council's approval. Requests are to
be submitted to the Tribal Chairper
son who will in turn forward such
requests to the Tribal Council
Resolution 94-2: This resolution
acknowledges the expiration of
LRDA's representative status with
the adoption of the Lumbee Constitu
tion. It expresses the tribal council's
intent to enact laws for the creation of
an enrollment office and charges the
tribal chairperson to request transfer
of all existing tribal enrollment
records.
Ordinance 94-1 This law sets forth
the procedures governing the con
duct of business by the tribal council
by establishing: a." council officers b
meeting schedule A attendance policy
c ordnanceadoptionprocedure
Ordinance 94-2: Tnis law autho
rizes the tribal chairperson to retain
the legal services of Attorney Dr
Arlinda Lock lea r and Lumbee River
Legal Services.
Ordinance 94-3: This law desig
nates the Carolina Indian Voice as
the official newspaper of the tribe for
all purposes requiring notice and
PubhoiUoi^wequiraU^heUjm
bcc Tribal Constitution
December 5. 1994
Resolution 94-3: This resolution
speaks to the unfair treatment of Robe
son County ShcrifiTscandidatc. Glenn
Maynor. during the sherifTs elec
tion It calls for the denouncement of
the Robesonian and any staff respon
sible for such biased reporting. It also
calls for a tribal boycott.
Copies or the above ordinances
and resolutions may be obtained by
writing: Lumbee Tribe of Cheraw
Indians P.O Box 3130 Pembroke.
NC 28372 or by contacting your tribal
council representative The next regu
larly scheduled council meeting is set
for Jan. 16,1994 @ 7pm in the Title
V Resource Center (formerly Pem
broke Middle School). Questions,
concerns suggestions and/or criti
cisms are welcomed These mav be
submitted either in-person or by mail
ing to the address as previously indi
cated. It is the tribal councils ex
pressed hope that this publication
will promote tribal awareness, par
ticipation and unity through an' 'open
door" information policy.
PurneU Swett students were honored by the Pembroke ( hamver
of Commerce for their academic skills, leadership and involvement
in school Shown left to right, Jennifer Pickens, Martha Carrie,
Principal Bill Brewington, Andrea Locklear and Tim Brooks, blot
shown: alisha Woodell, Clyde Brandon locklear and James Fredrick
Smiling.
Jennifer Pipken and Tim Brooks scored more than 1000 on the
SAT.
Write Now!
Indian Pow-Wow
Calendar FreeI
throughout the USA each year are fun
for all. but sometimes very hard to
know about
The Indian Information and Trade
Center in Arizona will send you a
quarterly calendar in return for a
priority mail $2 90 self addressed
stamped envelope (9*xl2"). (Send
four envelopes for the enli rcycar with
postage ) Overseas should send $7.00
U S funds for postage
Send to: Indian Calendar
P.O. Box 1000 i
San Carlos, AZ $$50-1000 USA '
"Awards of
Excellence"
Poetry Contest
Planned
Poems arc now being accepted for
entry in qarrowfraasPoetry Forum's
new Awards of Poetic Excellence
poetry contest Cask prizes totaling
>1.000 will be awarded, including a
$500 grand prize The contest is
free to enter
poets may enter one poem only. 30
lines or less, on any subject, in any
style, t onion closes march 31. 1995.
but pocuare encouraged (o send their
wot* as soon as possible Poems en
tered in the contest also will be con
sidered for publication in the Fall
1995 edition of "Poetic Voices of
America." a hardcover anthology to
be published in October. 1995. An
thology purchase may be required to
ensure publication, but is not required
to enter or win the contest. Prize
winners will be notified by May 31.
1995
"Our contest is especially for new
and unpublished poets and offers a
public forum that enables them to
share their work," says Jerome P.
Welch, Publisher " Wclook for origi
nality of ideas and poetry of all sty lea
and themes, many of our contest win
ners are new poets with new ideas."
Poems should be sent to
Sparrowgraas Poetry Forum, inc
LXpi C, 203 Diamond it. Sistersville.
Wv 26175.
Singles Fellowship to
Observe 10th
Anniversary
The Singles Fellowship of First
United Methodist Church. Pembroke /
tend, come lothe regular meeting at
7 p.m. Tuesday. January 10. at First
United Methodist ChunA, Pembroke,
or call one of the following numbers
521-3592 or 521-4619
The restaurant needs an accurate
account in advance Full-course din
ner with dessert Singles $7. tip in
cluded, couples $14
SRMC to be participating provider
Hcallhsourcc North Carolina. Inc
has signed on Southeastern Regional
Medical Center as a participating
provider The addition of this 434
bed hospital will enable Hcallhsourcc
North Carolina to better serve its
members in the Robeson County area
'' Hcallhsourcc is in the process of
completing its network in this area,
and the addition or the hospital will
benefit both our members and provid
ers." said Cheryl Humphrey, senior
contracts specialist As the largest
HMOsMhc state, it's our business to
make quality health care as acccs- "
siblc as possible "
I Icalthsourcc North Carolina, for
merly Carolina Physicians Health
Plan, provides health care services to
about 114,000 members. One of the
fastest growing managed care com- **
Cues. Hcaltlisourec North Carolina
offices in MorrisviUe. Charlotte
and Aahevillc
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Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the
Americans Newsletter Has Note on Book on Colonization
A recent Society for the Study of
the Indigenous Languages of the
Americas (SSILA) newsletter had a
note on a book on early European
plans for the colonization of Native
North American minds. The Span
ish. through languagcbascd assault,
went so far as to say thev wanted to
"change the way they (Indians) re
member history " The planned
psychosurgical colonization of the
mind had varying degrees of suc
cess with the many different peoples
of this continent over the last past
400-500 years. It's not over with
yet It is still going on today under a
sly cloaking of innocent looking
letters and an odd assortment of
umlauts, diacritical marks, and
whatnot, and with the disarmingly
simple ID-tag of "IPA."
The International Phoneticists
Association formed in Paris. France,
just over a 100 years ago. made up
the International Phonetic Alpha
bet (IPA) to be applicable to any and
all human languages, then marched
forth as an early day army of
linguraticai Indiana Joneses to study
and record the savage languages of
savage people before their savage
speakers died out under the civiliz
ing heel of the man from Europe
The recorded languages were to b e
stored and studied like so many
bones in a museum, so you see. the
IPA was somewhat like a 7% sotu
- lion of a literary preservative, a
phonetic phormaidchvdc And as a
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museum specimen need be prcscr\cd
in such a way so as to enable its study
even dow n to the microscopic, so too
is the IPA to preserve a language
down to its phonetic counter-part or
the microscopic Tor its proper study
The IPA is a study tool, not a talking
tool, not a walking tool, not a people
toot. No. It is a study ing-pcoplc tool
That is why it is so cumbersome,
clumsy, and complex (maybe 1-4
times more complex than English)
The IPA is a tool Whose tool is it?
The Indian 's tool'' No way ! It isalool
to study Lo. the poor Indian ll isalool
for those who see us all as Lo Get it?
lx>=low
Consider several hundred thou
sand non-Indians use the IPA. while
no more than only several hundred
North and South American Indians
at most, alsou.se it Statistically speak
ing. then. IPA written stuff is for
"others lo see us all the better b\
They look at us through their iPA
phonctoscopc and say such things as.
"Oh. Look. Lo has even made up a
new word for flashlight Isn't that
cute7 lo gettingctvili/ed. We should
be to proud Aren't we fine fellows7''
The IPA is also a took for taking
advantage of. exploiting, poor l-o. the
Indian Consider froma fWlSSIl A
newsletter. ?' Winnebago Field Lexi
con for sale. 33 bucks a copy " We.
for sure, got nothing from any of
those sales Ha ha This is only once
such instance but it ? one loo any.
The more IPA stuff, the more exploi
l
tat ion risk
Bui Ihc IPA is here, ready to go. as
if a gifl from heaven, one of you might
say Sure, sure But remember, the
loudest horse laugh in history came
hollering forth from the belly of Tro
jan Horse
Sixty some years before the IPA
Sequoia began work on his alphabet
In IX2K he printed his first Cherokee
English newspaper His alphabet was
so can to use that in just a few days
any Cherokee speaker could become
a Cherokee reader and writer Not loo
long later the Winnebago. HoChunk.
adopted and adapted a related alpha
bet from their Algonkwin neighbors
That loo was so easy that, almost like
magic, the HoChunk became a liter
ate People within just a few days
There were and arc many such
alphabets some using English, Ro
man really, letters Some use other
sy mbols. Just became systems using
Roman letters are easier to put into
computer programs, that does not
mean they arc better But they arc
easier to use for developing new. com
puter baaed language protects
Using the old 11pliabct adopted by
ihc HoChunk well over I (X) years ago
I've written a whole Mute of lale
graicd programs for IBM compatible
PCs Bendes simple word hats. I've
made sentence generators that can
make X22,26l,i72 grammatically
correct HoChunk sentences They do
not yet have sound incorporated, bat
I've other programs that reed some
?
words and sentences All these pro
gramscanworf for other languages
Just a little work can com en these
programs for doach related lan
guages such as Iowa (Jtoc. Miindan.
Dakota. Lakota. Pom a and Omaha
More work would be needed for
more distantly related languages
Preserv ing and strengthening our
languages is so important that any
tribal group wanting these programs
for language preservation can get
them very reasonably, contact me
for further information
But back to IPA Pan of its lure
for some is but a manifestation of
what s been called the Out of Rgypf
Sndromc (ORS) Recall the legend
the ancient Israeli Oighl out of
Rgypt and the 40 year crossing of
Sinai Is Sinai thai big that il took 40
years just lo cross U? Nope It took 40
years because, it is said, that is how
long it look Moses to knock the slave
mentality out of his people sAcr 400
yean of slavery
400 years of nund colonization is
not all that different from 400 years
of slavery. both lead to slave mental
ly
Let us. I say. leave the interna
tional PhormaJdehyde Alphabet in
the language museum where it be
longs with ether preservatives of
thinttidcad mm our own fyctentt of
ssssismw smwwsi ss^wsrws SFVVM ?? umrssfu sn
writing, and thus sey with a strong
voice to those who would keep m
Lo. "UET MY PEOPLE OOT
Chuck UassMB, M.A,
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