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Editorial and Opinion Page Editorially Speaking Hubert Stone Keeps Threatening to Take Back "His" Seat!!! Glenn M.i\ nor the first Indian lobe elected Sheriff of Robeson Count) has served in that capacilv foi near Is three veais I he Sheriff serves a fourvearierin As I vox draws closer the rumor null is busv and the arch ciieniv of Indian people Hubert Stone has once again <^cncd his mouth and inserted his Toot He is tr\ uigJMBWKfevhetftdiftrCdT^miuiiiiv to garner support for Ins "return" as SlKriff ottbc (Jjiihtv. It I las been reported that he has stated priv atelv to some Indiaitfrbethttiks areSflfqfbrlels thai he intends to "take niv scat back " Tins'slatcnint causes a flood of emotions for us W hen he savs HIS scat, what csactlv is he saving"' He certain^ does not own the sheriffs position The kind people of Robeson Con niv ow ji the ?c.h We were gracilis to Stone and allowed hnu to serve for sixteen v cars Unfortunatelv his "resign" was marked with talcs of-corrupt ion. drug connections and quest tollable deaths He ceriainlv did not appreciate the kmdjtess of the voters when heserved as Sheriff In 1994 Stone decided that he would 1101 seek re-election We believe lie did not seek rc-clcction because he is ;i realist and understood that the voles were not there for him While he did not se-ek election he did work for and opcnlv support l.um b.dvvards. the white candidate over tluT^ Indian candidal. Glenn Mavnor We believe that hisaen.uis in that eleeiiom spoke volumes In IW7 vvhen lie stales that lie is going to take his senktide we believe ih.u lie is saving that the seat should be held bv a while I lie past political netiv itics makes us believe this It was report, d that lie encouraged I cc Fdvvatd Sampson to run for sheriff iti I nu4 it isoui undo standing dial lie pionnsed support to Sampson but in fact. a icon i aged In in to run in an aliempi 10 diaw Indian voles from the stronger I ndiun candidate. Glenn Mas nor As we nnnl\/c llie silnation. we are com ineed cdiloriallv speaking dial Hubert Stone plavedanageold game called "Di\ ide and Conquer" Of course, it back fired on In in We have heard rumors now that as Hubert moves around the Indian and Black communities, he is attempting once again toplav the same game We don't believe it will work We believe the voters of Robeson Count) are smarter than that We believe that the voters of tins counts remember Hubert's hiring practice while he was sheriff And some of us remember his intcrv icw in with GQ Maga/inc During that interview, the "reigning sheriff' staled "AJivtinievou look down the street and vou see a black and an Indian guv vou've got crime Vou know vou're not supposed to look at things like that but that's the wax it is If lives run together, something's up Wealwavs know when we spot a car and see 'em?an Indian an a black?there's gonna be a crime We have to keep a firm hand on 'cm " W e bclicv e that Hubert staled liovv he fell about Indians and blocks during that interview He opened Ins mouth again and inserted lus foot Mavbc Hubert w ill run for Sheriff in I'WX Pnvatelv he savs he will but publiclv he savshe'll wail until October to decide We believe that hchasalrcadv decided and some of lis are looking forward to the fight The battle lines were drawn long ago and lliihcil Suuic loll Ins mark'" Wo challenge Slonc ;ind Ins supporters to compare tlie statistics from Ins si \lccn s cars in office lo I ho pi csonl ShciilTMas nor's less than four years Wo beliese ilull sou will find that the arrests of drug dealers by Shcrifl May nor is inuoli luylior lluui when Stone was soiling And we haso heard the complaint dial May nor arrests loo main Indians lor drugs Our response to that is simple the destruction and deiastalion of our society by drugs is 1101 acceptable If Indians don't want to be arrested for drug dealing, the answer is simple: DON'T DT.AI DRUGS! If sou compare the hiring practices of the CN-shorifl and Sheriff Mas nor. ssc belies c dial sou will find dial Shcrifl Mas nor's employees more accurately reflect die racial make up in the counts than Hubert's did in sistecn sears The s oters gas e I liibcrt 10 scars as sheriff andour coiinn had theworst rcpuialion in the nation, ssc belies c There sscre reports of the shcrifl prolccting drug dealers, testifying for litem, and we sson't elaborate at litis lime aboul the mans oilier unfits orable reports on our coiuils during Huberl's "reign of terror" Some of us remember!" Maybe Hubcri needs lo lake some tune and recall sslial he did wrong in die 16 scars that the solers allowed him lo seise Tdiloi tails speaking, ssc don't ssaitl lo see Robeson Counts return to the Stone era thai ssould be going backssards and sse arc for progress And contrary lo sslial Hubert might dunk of sas progress is not necessarily sshitc and ssltiic is not always necessarily riglu Stone prosed that all loo ssell Pembroke Kiwanis Report The monthIs bu si ncss meetingwas held Tucsdas evening at the Town and Countrs Restaurant with President Furnic Lambert presiding President Lambert presented Mrs Gloria D Hunt. Coach of the "Queen of Diamonds." Girls Kiwnnis Sortball Team. The Girls Youth League is a part of the Robeson Count) Recreation mid Parks Commission Program The tennis pla> one hour games The league is made up ol teams of m ne s ears to 12 \ cars in age Teams are the Lads Braves. Prospect 112. the Angles. Queen of Diamonds Deep Branch Prospect til. The Kiwnnis Queens or Diamonds pins at the Pembroke Middle School Held Games arc Tucsdas s and Tlnirsdns s The Queens ha\e al rends won two games It is a sers fine program and . Coach Hunt urges fans to come and support their team Sportsmanship and obedience to rules are the main goals of the l eague which has been in.cvrstence for four \cars ' >S.... Past President Bob Lours \>;i> presented the Past Presidents Ciold Pin for increasing the membership 311% a I ickelsnrc being sold lor'the IVX Camera7.2X. nbcniilifulls completers rcstorcdcar Donationsarc$5 Drawing to be held Jul> 5 at the Pembroke Park.at 4 p.m Yon do not has c to be present to win President and Mrs Fiirnic Lambert will be attending the International KiwnnisComcntion lobe held this coming week end in Nashville Tennessee The> will be leasing 011 Thursdav lor ihe Convention It promises to be an outstanding convention to be held in the "Capital of Countrv Music " Kiwanian Rav l.owrv savs the Canoe trip planned b> Forest Rangei L.ee as guide piouiises Is) be an outstanding trip with no charge I lie trip starts at Rroadman dock and goes to the Slate Park at Sanu Anna Openings' are still available lor lulv 12th Contact Rav lowiv Bov Seoul Chaiiman Lddie Ieelv accepted :i check lor S2^() I'ro'ni treasurer Albert Hunt for work of the Scouts * Visitorsuiclutlcd Nv-islauU oach Rosa line Mavuoi Jason Nance eleven veai old son of kiwanian Hlaine Nance and Nancv Hum daughter of Coach I hint Sonl.eadcr-Ld I eels InvoealionClav Mas nor Reporter-ken lohnson No Alcohol Allowed at Pembroke VFW Meetings Dear Readers I wishtoclarifv a|x)inl thai I made in ilis June IVJ7 Post reporl li mounded like we approve liquor it; our post We Do not allow anv alcohol on the premises If a mcntbet eoiucs t?>a mectingand lias the smell of alcohol on Ins breath. he is asked to leave the post If there was a misinterpretation of tnv writing I wish to clari(\ tnv message Thank Yon lor lotting me make tnv self Clear Erwin Jacobs Post Surgeon. Aids Resource team Receives Grant The Borderbclt Aids Resource Team. I lie lias been awarded a %20.(M>0.00 grain bv I lie Kale B Rev nolds C'liarilablc Trust of Winston-Saleni. La fon Berry. Cco/chyirnv.in of the Board, said todav I hc funds will be used locnliuiicc our existing HIV/AIDS Casc-Managcnicni in Robeson Counlv. according to Berr> Our orgnm/alion has provided HIV/AIDS Case Management during the last M months." Berrv said . flic grant from Kale B Rev nolds will give us additional resources lo expand oui serv iccsthroughoul Robeson Count) BAR'l Inc was founded in IWh and hasprov ided HIV Case Managcnicni Services for 50 individuals in Robeson Counlv l.afon Berrv iscliair man of the board of directors 1 he Kale If Rev nolds Charitable I rust was created in IV47bv ihcvvil of Mis WilhaniN Rev noldsof Win sion-Saleni I luec fourths of the in comeol the trusl is designated for uxv foi heallli-ielated programs and sei v ices across Norili Carolina and oih fourth for the poor and need) o \\ insion-Saleni and f orsv 111 Counlv I? LI Stan Knick, Director^ b*C\>V^yvn' ~< I 'NCP Native American Resource Center ^ We get a lot of interesting calls at the Native American Resource Center. A recent one was a request from a man of Native American descent now living in South Carolina who, upon seeking membership in a Native American organization in that state, was told that he would need to find "an anthropologist or a dentist" to testify that he has the "physical traits of an Indian." While to some this might seem like a simple matter, tome it is not. The possibility of judging whether a man is Native American by looking at his physical features is a sore topic. This is because I and most other anthropologists have hoped for decades that such discussion bad finally come to an end. That any group of Native Americans today might consider physical features as a consistently reliable determinant of Indian-ncss indicates to me that they have misguidedly subscribed to an old and essentiall/'racist idea ? the mistaken notion that all Indians look sufficiently alike to make it always easy to tell who is and who isn't Indian. Sorry folks, life in America just isn't that simple. The antiquated notion that physical features can consistently be used to discern ethnic identity has becfr dismissed by serious scholars. The two subjects ? physical type and ! ethnicity ? often have nothing whatever to do with each other. Modern human populations are extremely variable. In fact, there is t 1 more physical variation within any given "race" than there is between any two "races." This fact has led most anthropologists, including myself, to reject racial categorizations altogether. Furthermore, IF we were to try to separate people into categories by physical features, who would get to decide which features should be used? And which features would they decide to use? What if a person had one feature and not the other? Wouldn't it most often be the case that the "ingroup" would select those features which at least some, if not most, of the in-group themselves had? What about the in-group's other physical features? All of this is rather like saying: "If you look something like me, then you can be like me." And what results might there be if the choice of features was made arbitrarily (as it inevitably would be)? Takp the case of Native Americans. It was never true that all Native Americans looked alike. Even before the coming of non-Indians to this Turtle Island, Indians did not all look the same. It was a long way physically from Mohawk to Miwok, from Kiowa to Kwakiutl, from Aztec to Abenaki. Now that genes from non. Indian sources have been mixed in with the Native American gene pool (and Native American genes mixed in with the other gene pools) it is even less true that all Native Americans look alike. So how could we consistently tell who is an Indian and who is not solely on the basis of physical features? While it is theoretically possible with some people, it definitely is not with some others. Howhigh are "highcheekbones?" (Many non-Indian people have high cheekbones, some of which are "higher" than many Indians' cheekbones.) How copper-colored is the Indian's stereotypical "copper-colored skin?" And what color is copper, really? Like a penny? Like a pipe? (Many non-Indians are coppercolored, some of whom are more copper-colored than many Indians.) Even a physical feature which seems easier to describe than skin color i and cheekbones, such as shovel-shaped incisor teeth, was never universally identical among Native Americans. It is even less universally present among Indians nowadays. And, beyond all of this, why should Native Americans be required to prove who they are by reference to their physical features W (any more than anyone else in v America)? (I Who is a Native American? It is jj a person who is genetically related to other Native Americans. It cannot consistently be distinguished by a finite list of physical features, any more than a book can reliably be told by its cover. For more information, visit the Native American Resource Center in historic Old Main Building, on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Say You Read it in the Carolina Indian Voice. To subscribe calH"1521-2826 I \ 4 Kick-Off Rally For Sheriff Glenn Maynor at Pembroke Middle School Friday, July 18, 1997 BBQ or C hicken (C hicken Bog also) Contributions $5.00 or more I1:00 a.m. until 7:30p.in. ^ You may pay at the door i ~ Catch the Spirit of the West! Adopt a Wild Horse or Burro from the Federal Government. For an information packet call f 1-800-417-9647 A public service ot this publication Robeson Community College Adjunct Faculty Positions The college is accepting resumes to increase its pool of applicants to teach evening classes on the main campus in the followingareas Anafomy/Pltysiology-Maslers Degree in biological sciences or a Masters Degree with 18 hours in biological sciences, anatomy/physiology or a professional degree in medicine Accounting- Masters Degree or a Masters Degree with 18 graduate hours in accounting. CPA or CM A desiiable. previous teaching and/or related work experience preferred Air Conditioning, Heating <& Refrigeration- Associate Degree in Aii Conditioning Heating & Reliigualion. pievious t.aching and/or work experience preferred i If/-Masters Degree in art or a Masters Degree with 18 hours in art tiiology- Masters Degree in biology or a Masters Degree with 18 graduate hours in biology Computer Technology- Masters Degree in computer science or related computer field previous teaching and oi related work cs perience preferred ( iihoory Technology- Associate Degree in Culinary I ethnology or related field, previous teaching and/oi iclaied work experience preferred E< on funics- Mast ers Degi ee in economics or a Masters Degree with 18 graduate houi sin economics previous teaching and/ or related work experience preferred Electrical/Electronics Technology-Associate Degree in electronics engineering technology-oi electronics tei hnology with proficiency in basic electronics theory and troubleshooting previous teaching and'or work experience preferied I nglislt-Masters Degree in Knglish or a Masters Degree with 18 graduate hours in I nglish History- Masters Degree in History or a Masters Degree with 18 graduate hours in History Industrial Maintenance Technology- Associate Degree in industrial maintenance technology with proliciui \ in elect to mechanical theory, machine processes and troubleshooting, previous teaching and/or related woik experienci piefened Management Information Systems- Masters Degiec in information systems oi a Masleis Degree with 18 gi urinate hours in management information systems or a computer related field, previous teaching and/or related work experiem r piefened /V/rt//f-Masters Degree in math or a Masteis Degiec with 18 hours in Math Aursing Assistant-Associate Degree in RN with unencumbered license minimum oi two years experience a? a icgistered nurse, experience in teaching adults and/or supervisory nurse aides, and one year's experience in providing care loi the elderly or chronically ill of any age Physics-Masters Degree in physics or a Masters Degree with 18 graduate hours in physics Political Science- Masters Degree in political scicnce-or a Masters Degree with 18 graduate hours in political science Psychology-Masters Degree in psychology or a Masters Degree with 18 graduate hours in psychology Sociology-Masters Degree in sociology or a Masters Degree with 18 graduate hours in sociology All applicants must submit a cover letter, an RCC Application, reference forms, and official transcripts to VT of Personnel Services, Robeson Community College, IK) Box 1420. Humbert on NC 281S9 KOH/AA Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Lock/ear to Host Reception Mr and Mrs Harold B. Lock lea r request the honor of soar presence at a reception celebrating the graduation of Second l ieutenant Art Thomas l.ocklear and the marriage of Second l ieutenant and Mrs Art Ihomas on Saturday, the twenty eighth of June nineteen hundred and ninety -seven at fi\c o'clock in the afternoon At Berea Baptist Church on Odum Street in Pembroke. North Carolina Please respond to (lJ|0) ^2I-4>^X by June 21. }W7. - Dr. Joseph T. Bell Visits and Speaks at Catawba Reservation Joseph I Bcll.M.D.Lumbccfrom Pembroke NO rcccnll) spoke :il lite Catawba Reservalion itt South Carolina Or Bell 's topic was "Diaynosiit}! Petal Alcohol S\ndronte in Indian Ooiinin I lis lopie was pari ol a three da> conference 011 Snbslanee Abuse pill on b\ lite Catawba Indian Nation Coordinator of lite confercnec wasDcbra Burk\bileof Cltcro kce. 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