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Editorially Speaking I
A Public Reminder that Joe Freeman Britt Has Served I
by Default; and Other Notes on 1996 Elections I
Hi jjv I he Lord and puts (he ammunition '' as Howell M Forg> said
just befor. the bombing of Peart Harbor We say it here because the
infamous Joe Freeman Brill has announced he will not seek election as
a Superior Court Judge We are among those who remember his tenure
in the District Attorney's office in Robeson County We remember loo
that the judgeship which be has chosen not to nm for. ? a scat he held
by defauh The voters of Robeson County rejected the ' the world's
deadliest DA" b> an overwhelming 2.500 votes in support of the late
Julian Pierce We recall lltai the post held by Brut because Pierce was
dead and therefore unable to serve was create! for a minority Now Joe
Freeman Bntt is many things, but a person of color he is not We pause
to remind Him that the voters of Robeson County in I <tXX. said that they
would i jitter have a dead Julian Pierce than a the Joe Freeman Britl as
Superior ( ourt Judge We would be remiss in our duly to our readers if
we did not remind foe I hat he was never elected judge
We speculate about his real reasons for not seeking election First
of all. he knows I hat he couldn I win and we suspect that his massiv c ego
could not deal with another defeat this lime possibly by a live black
woman (Dune Phillips) We speculate thai his reason for not giv ing us
an opportunilv to vote against him again was because he couldn't bear
the idea of being defeated by a Black or an Indian During his eight years
on the bench we don't recall any outstanding contributions that he has
made toward harmonious race relations in our county It would be
interesting lobe in on one of those behind closed doors' meetings that
he w ill no doubt preside over to decide who his replacement will be Well
* we arc sure that there won't be any Indians or Blacks in that inner circle
And we are sure thai he will not recommend a Black or an Indian for
his replacement If he did so it would certainly be out of character for
him The good news for Indians is that Superior Courl Judge Dexter
Brooks, if re-elected, will become Resident Superior Court Judge
What can we say? We rcjotce to know that Joe's public service is
drawing to a close, yet we somehow fed cheated thai he apparently isn't
brav c enough to gi\ c (he voters of Robeson County a not he i opportune
to say "noway Joe " Of course feeling cheated is not a new experience
for Indians retails e lo Joe Freeman Brill We remember JocM"
It seems lobe aycar for Joes, or next >car promises tobcavcarw ithout
them Joe B Freeman. Register of Deeds, has announced also that he will
not seek re-election We remember his bid for that office We remember
the support he rcccixed from the Indian voters Too bad Joe forgot We
remember also that he was among those who would not appear in a
political ad endorsing the Democratic Parts Maybe there is something
these two men had in common other than their names!" We suspect that
Joe B Freeman would not support that ad because he did not w ish lo
appear to support the Indian candidate for sheriff' We speculate also
that his reasons for not seeking re-election go deeper than those
expressed b> him We suspect he and Joe Freeman Brill share the same
fear ofbeing defeated by aBlackoran Indian It is common know ledge
that Tom Jones, a Black, would run against Freeman as Register of
Deeds It is understood that Indians and Blacks voting together can
change the complexion of the political office holders We wish Joe B
Freeman well as he leaves the office of Register of Deeds and we assure
him that Tom Jones if elected lo that office, could be trusted with the
keeping of the public records We assure him also Robeson I Ouni> will
not slide off into the Lumbcc River ifa Black is elected to the office We
remind him that his choice not to support1 the Democratic ticket in IW4
would ceriainly have haunted him in 19% Again we regret that we
won t have the opportunity to vote against him
We certainly expect to hear some comments from tome folks about
Freeman's physical handicap Some folks believe that it is almost a
sacrilege losay anything about a person, if they arephysically challenged
We arc much more concerned with the handicaps called bigotry and
racism There arc no crutches or wheelchairs that can help alleviate the
pain caused by these limitations (hat are not visible to the natural eve
Wc expect lo hear soon thai (he name of Pembroke Stale L)nivcrsil>
has been changed once again The move is to call it the Universal of
North Carolina al Pembroke The overwhelming sentiment seems to be
what difference will one more name change make'' More questions arc
raised oxer the employment situation al that institution than over the
changing of the name Wc hope that, if the name changes, it will increase
enrollment and the hiring of minorities will be considered a priority
there
I lW6 promises to bring an clcclion that will lie interesting to say the
least Wilh the absence of Joe Freeman Brill as a candidate, rumor has
it that Diane Phillips, a Black who works for the Public Defender, and
Disl net Court Judge Frank Floyd will run. as well as incumbent Superior
Court Judge Dexter Brooks If that scenario happens, wc will see an
Indian, a Bkick and a while competing for two scats
Without Joe Freeman in the race for Register of Deeds, wc expect lo
see Tom Jones, a Black, and Billic Britt. a while, offer themselves as
candidates Terry Stewart an Indian Republican, will challenge the
w inner Other names are being bandied about also as possible candidates
for that position
Of great importance lo many people is the possibility of Jeff Moore
an Indian, assistant district attorney running for district court judge, if
Floyd runs for Superior Court
Senator David Parnell has also announced that he will not seek re
election for the District 30 seal David Weinstcinn. former Mayor of
Lumbcrton. has announced that he will run for that position Other
names being mentioned arc former House member Pete Hasty and the
former sheriff Hubert Stone That could prove to be a very heated race
if Stone goes for it If he exercises his constitutional right to run for the
Senate, we say publicly editorially speaking. Hubeff. don't count on any
support or encouragement from us
Along the Robeson Trail | J
. ? by Dr. Stan Knick, Director
PSU Native American Resource Center
One of the most readily
recognizable types of jewelry is the
wort done in silver and turquoise by
Native Americans. That particular
combination of materials can be seen
on fingers, wrists and necks all around
the world, but Is generally associated
with the American Southwest.
Navajo. Hop! and Zufli artisans are
best known far their beautiful work in
silver and turquoise. But it has not
always been so.
Turquoise was used for many
centuries, long before the coining of
Europeans, as an ornament in the
Southwest. Beads of turquoise were
worn by both men and women,
although more frequently by men
These Native people collected
turquoise to their local environment,
and men were responsible for most of
the early work to producing beads
from the raw material. Farther south,
in Meso-America. turquoise was
among (be stones used to personal
decorations as well as mosaics by
Maya. Aztec and other Native people.
Silver appears to have been first
used by Native people in South
America. Mcso-American people
learned metallurgy (the science of
separating metals Mm their ores and
preparing them for use by melting or
other refining) from South American
Indians. But tamosi of North America,
advanced metallurgy was an unknown
art. Native North Americans in
various locations from the Eastern
Woodlands to Alaska mainly cold
hammered chunks of copper, and to at
least one Instance, meteoric iron, but
there were no real underground mines
north of Mexico. Annealing, the
process of healing metal slightly to
make it more malleable, is also
believed to have been known in pre
Columbian North America (see Harold
Driver's Indians of North America).
Work in silver and turquoise as it
is presently known from the American
Southwest began after European
contact. In what appears to be typical
fashion for traditional cultures
everywhere, when new technology is
introduced the people not only learn
bow to master the technique but
eventually make it into something of
their own. So it was with the Native
craftsmen of the Southwest.
Sometime around the middle of
the 19th century these Indians learned
bow to work silver into jewelry. They
bad been using silver before, acquired
mainly from Mexicans, but they had
not been working it much themselves.
Once they got started, they soon began
to set it with turquoise, which they had
valued longer than anyone could
remember. The silver raw material
came fust from Spanish and Mexican
sources, and later from United Sutcs
coins.
The story was told in the 1940s,
by Navajo elder Grey Moustache, of a
man named Atsidi Sani (in English.
"Old Smith"), who was the first among
his people to learn metallurgy:
"lie thought that he could cam
money by making bridles. In those
days the Navajo bought all of their
bridles from the Mexicans, and Atsidi
Sani thought that if he learned bow to
make them the Navajo would buy them
from him... After Atsidi Sani learned
to make silver, be taught his sons bow
to work it. He told them that silver was
very easy to work. He never made
very much silver, but spent most of his
time making iron bits [for horses]. His
sons made lots of silver, especially
Red Smith...
"We learned how to do this from
the Mexicans. They used clay molds
for casting the metal. The first Navajo
smiths used rock for casting...
"Atsidi Chon was a very good
silversmith. He used to live over near
Klagetoh. He was the first silversmith
to set turquoise in silver. The first
piece that he set was in a ring... This
ring had just one stone in iL At that
time the only rings thqt the Navajo had
were of silver with some designs filed
into the metal I remember when this
ring was finished, many Navajo
gathered around to see it, and all of
them thought that it was very pretty.
After be finished making that first
piece, he made some more jewelry
with turquoise in it...
"Young fellows used to come up
to him and say 'I want to leant how to
make silver; I want to learn bow to
make jewelry like that.' Heuscdtosay
to them 'You have two eyes, you can
see; watch me and you will leant bow
for yourself (The Navajo and Puebb
Silversmiths, by John Adair)"
They did watch and learn.
Nowadays, Native Americans from
many other tribes and nations have
also watched and learned. Hven here
in the land of the l umbcc. people arc
making beautiful jewelry from silver
and turquoise
For more information, visit the
Native American Resource Center in
Old Main Building, on the campus of
Pembroke State University.
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Reflections
by Alta Nye Oxen dine
II seems lhat President Clinton
wants 20.000 of our "boys" and
"girsl" to serve as peacekeepers'
in Yugoslav la There arc some w ho
believe that if this happen, they
could end up fighting in that war
World W ar II
Reminds me of fifty-some years
ago when we watched our tccn
agc classmates drop out of school to
serve in World War II Some were
injured Others never came back
But life went on back home. (
While soning through family
belongings in Montana last
summer I found a bov *of high
school things including copies of
our school paper the Twin Bridges
High School Vigilante " (The
Vigilantes were a group of
volunteers who set out to rid the
tcrritorv of Road Agents during
the IWHls)
50th Class Reunion
Our class of 1945' held our
5tith high school reunion last July
We were the class whose high
school years coincided with WW
II. from 144 I to 1*445 We graduated
between VE-Day (the end of the
war in Europe) and VJ-Day (the
end of Worla War II in Japan and
the Pacific theater) It was great to
see some classmates not seen since
our Graduation Day
The "Vigilantes" I d saved
spanned the war years S spring.
1^42 issue commended first
graders forgathering scrap iron for
the war effort It also announced
that classes would be out for two
days in order for teachers to get the
government s new sugar rationing
program into operation (What I
remember most is gas rationing!)
In the November 25 1442 issue
there is an editorial "Let Us Be
Thankful " by cditoi Jean
Armstrong one of the other
students
Here is an excerpt
"As we sit down lo
Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow lei
us remember these bovs who aa
O their all thai we ma> have
sgiv ing Dav and let us be t
forever thankful lo them for their
sacrifice Above all let us be
t hank fill for know ing t hat our cause
is right and that we do not have to
face the people of the world with
Iks protesting our righteousness '
I was surprised to find a
Thank sgiv ing poem bv fellow tenth
grader Wanda Bavcrs It was
during our last two >ears in high
school that Wanda and I became
close friends She is the person for
whom I named mv Wanda kav
Wanda was going to be the w rilcr'
Instead, she is a water color artists
BF THANK Fill
bv Wanda Bavcrs
Thanksgiving Dav is a glorious
dav
When God will want lo hear us
sav
Our thanks for all the things
we've got
Stop and think it 's quite alot
First comes our freedom and let
us thank God
That a s grown into Uus vcr>
sod
And that is whv none can lake it
awa>
It hns grown here and here it
w?ll mm
Piere arc a lot of things we can
!
thank God tor
There are millions of Ihings yes
things galore
We can thank him for enough to
eat
And just plain bread and butler
and clean fresh meat
And for the vers house in which
wc live
And for the brilliant lights that
the sun will give
Yes. and it sGod that makes the
flowers bloom
And it's things like these thai
chase awav gloom
There arc a lot of things wc can
prav to (kxl for
Happiness and quiet still peace
once more
But there arc a lot of things lo
ihank Him for loo
And down deep in your heart
thev must come from you
Be thankful Be thankful for (he
good things that you've god
And just stop and think it s
quite alot
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