Editorial and opinion Page
Linda James Becomes Miss Lumbee
by Y in it a < 'lark
Pembroke AC' To " sold oul"
audience of over I.WMJ Miss Linda J
Janics was crowned " Miss Lumbcc
1997". The night ssas (ullofcxcitnicni
for the ciglu young ladies thai v icd
for ihe title It was a night of pleasant
memories also and long awaited
promises fulfilled
The opening ceremony was performed
b> Ray Litlleturllc who had
the audience pay homage to the Creator
w ho helped them "discos cr Columbus
o\cr 500 scars ago". Mr
James Hardin. Executive Director of
he Lumbcc Regional Deselopement
Association presented Natasha
tVagncr. Miss Indian USA with a
aortrail of herself in her official regalia
by Artist Karl Anthony Hunt
Alter the Opening number by the
contestants the Lumbcc Regional
Dcvclopcmcht Association" took care
of somcunfinishcd business". In 1968
when Cheryl Ransom ssas cross ncd
" Miss Lumbcc" she rccicvcd a
headband and a feather. She ncscr
rccicvcd her crown. In 1969 when
Janice Jones ssas crowned " Miss
Lumbcc"shc rccicvcd her headband
and fcathcrbut ncscr acrossn. Friday
night.both oflhcsc former Miss Lumbccs
rccicvcd their cross nsand made
their walk Also rcconi/cd at this
time were the origional contestant'from
the first Miss Lumbcc Pageant
Mr. Monroe Locklcar of the Tribal
Enrollment Office had trophies made
for each one of them and gave them
a picture made the night of the
1968 contest
Miss Wanda Kay Locklcar ssas
rcconi/cd for being the first Miss
Lumbcc to be in the Miss Indian
America Pageant. Mr. Locklcaraddcd
"w hen they asked Wanda to x\ car her
tribal regallia in the competition she
told them that she could not do this"
because the regalia of the Lumbcc
svomcn arc Bare Breasted"
Miss Lumbcc 1974 Rebecca
Malcom was rcconi/cd as the first
Miss Lumbcc to participate in the
Miss North Carolina Pageant and
she was also presented W illi a trophy
w ith her picture from the Miss Nort it
Carolina Pageant.
Miss Rcbccca Maleom and Mr
Herbic Ovcndinc served a Mistress
and Master of Ceremonies
First Runner -up went to Ginger
Sampson daughter or Bobbv and
Carol Sampson who performed a
spcctular voice number
The winner of the competition
Linda J James did an origionallv
written nionolguc paving tribute to
her C rcalor. ancestors and those w ho
have died so that we could be free
Her onlv props were that of a
woven rug. a handmade loafof bread
and aftulc
Mtss Rchchah Revels performed
several "breathe taking numbers"
darning the night As she made her
farewell walk she was embraced bv
her famiR members, bcautv queens,
friends, associates, supporters and
the Lumbcc people with more presents
;md roses than site could earn
herself She was escorted b> her father
J I) for a slide presentation of her
reign as Miss l.untbcc
The ncwlv crown Junior Miss
Lumbcc Chart) Jancnc Lowers performed
her winning song " He'll Do
It Agatn"This>ounglad> hasavoice
and carries herself with such "class"
that she is sure to go places"
Entcrainmcnl was also pro\idcd
b> Cod> Godw in and his band w ho
were later rc-iniroduccd as " Stone
Feather"
The newlv crowned Little Miss
Lumbcc Krisliuu N Bullard wooed
the crowd to her version of Judv
Garland's song " Some Where Over
The Rainbow"
Pediatric Pointers
By JOSEPH T. BELL, MD
Teenagers have a loi to deal with
This is an obvious statement If we
have teenagers at home or can remember
w hen w e w ere teenagers, w e
know that everything seems to be
happening around those years between
childhood and adulthood. One
medical issue that rclalcs-spcoWicallv
to that age group is the problem
or acne.
Acne usually begins in the 1-2
years prior to puberty. but it at its
worscduringadolescence. It is caused
by a hormonal stimulation of the oil
glandsalongw ill) the ov er-grow th of
germs on the skin The pores get
clogged with germs and oil. then
inflammation occurs, leading to acne
bumps Thcrcarctwotypesofbumps.
open comedos (blackheads), and
closed comedos (whiteheads) Although
blackheads can be unsightly.
they arc easily managed and inflammation
rarely occurs the w hitehead
is the lesion responsible for the problem
seen with acne The pore opening
is too small to release its contents,
the oil. protein and germs form -
a small abscess (pus pockcl) under
thc^kin after inflammation sets in.
These abscesses may become big and
max lead to scarring if not treated
appropriately. Stressful exeats and
hormonal changes increase oil production
on the face and max lead to
Ttnrc iljlSTJf acne
flic primary sites of acne arc the
face, chest, back and shoulders. It
seems to be xxorsc in the xxintcr and
belter in the summer Most acne
bumps heal xxithoul difficult), but
more sex ere forms of acne can scar.
Scars look like sharply. punched-out
pits: the severity of the scarring depends
on the depth and intensity of
the inflammation inx olxcd.
"The treatment of acne must be
indix iduali/cdtothcpatient Formost
mild eases, topical Benzoyl peroxide
(like Oxy -1 <K> or Retin-Axxorksxvcll.
For moderate eases, a combination of
these two. along with a topical antibiotic
solution xxorks \xcll For more
severe-eases, a physician may prescribe
an antibiotic to take by mouth
to help control the acne
One thing xxorth mentioning is
that there arc no medical'studies to
indicate llngy ourdicl plays a significant
role in acne For many years. '
chocolates, sodas and sweets were
thought to provoke acne. This has
not panned out in the medical studies
For those feu patients who attest
to flare lips of their acne following
certain foods, it is best to eliminate
them until treatment is complete.
We must remember as parents
that acne can haxc a detrimental
psychological effect on a teenager,
lowering their self-esteem and confidence
Thisshould prompt us to make
sure thc> arc waslung lltcir lace propcrls
and gelling medical attention if
needed
Remember. ifyou lta\ c any topics
\ou would like to hear about or need
a question answered, write to me at
p O. Bos .1010. pcmbrokc. N.C.
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nest week!
Political Rhetoric Can Be Added to Life's
Certainties, According to Rep. Jim Black
To the Editor. yr- Add
one more item to life's certainties
or death and taxes: Political
rhetoric w ill get hotter as ihc General
Asscmbl> session stretches into the
summer.'
That's certainly the ease with w elTare
reform.
In a recent letter to the state's
newspaper editors. House Speaker
Harold Brobakcr talked about "entrenched
bureaucrats" and "liberal
opponents" using "scare tactics" to
oppose the House Republican welfare
reform plan.
.Unfortunate)), reality docs not
match the rltctorie.
The reality is that the House GOP .
welfare reform plan is a radial proposal-pcrhaps
the most radical in
teh country?that would shift decisions
about eligibility and benefits lo
counties. TO implement 100 different
welfare systems/counties would
have to create 100 bureaucracies to
write checks and handle other administrathe
duties.
Many county and social service
officials do not want to waste taxpayer
dollars with this duplication of
services and they have slid so They
also have made it clear that they want
statewide-eligibility requirements:ind
benefits with a few pilot programs to
sec v\ hollicr locally -determined benefits
can work
These critics arc not "entrenched
bureaucrats "They arcclcctcd county
commissioners and social serviced
directors who live and work in our
communities, House Republicans
argue that local officials can best
decide what's best for welfare recipients
inihelrarcasvThosc local offi
cials already liaw spoken iind their
message was clear J hey do not like
Ihc sweeping pro\ isions in lie Republican
proposal
There is another less radical plan
to overhaul the welfare system by
using Go\ Jim Hunt's Work First
program as the framework for providing
temporary cash assistance
and moving welfare recipients into
jobs Under this legislation, counties
would receive more flexibility locarrV
out the program But eligibility re-,
quircmcnts and benefits would .be
uniform across the state Thai's what
local officials say ilicv want
Unlike the untested House Republican
plan. Work First lias a track
record. In the first 22 mouths of
operation, welfare rolls were reduced
by 22 3 percent, saving taxpayers
almost $104 million
.Under Work First welfare recipients
must get a job or go into job
training Benefits sire limited to two
years, and families in the program
must sign personal responsibility
contracts describing how they will
become self-sufficient Bciiofiis are
cut for those who do not live up to
these contisu Is
The goal of Work First i?. simple
to get every ajyjc-bodietI welfare iccipiciit
in a job or job training bv
2(MM>
In spite of Work I irsl's success.
House Rcptiblicanswaiii tothrow out
that framework and start all over
with an untried, unwanted pioposal
that would was taxpayers dollars
That's what the welfare reform
debale is really about
Rep. Jim llluck
House Minority I.cutler
(!)) Mecklinpburp ('o.
Reflections
by Alta Nye Oxendine
I test Wishes!
Best wishes toeach participant,
for Ltimbcc Homecoming, including
c\cr> person and family who came
home to Pembroke for the annual
festivities.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Jeffand Wanda
Kay on their eleventh anniversary.
Saturday. June 28! This is the second
year they observed (heir anniversary
as the proud and thankful parents of
By ron J Hunt, now,nearly 20 months
old
Hyron
Byron has been interested in the
letter "B" for months We grandmas
taught him "pat-a-cakc.: His main
interest for a long time was in throwing
his hands over his head, to "toss
it in the oven."
But we told him that His NAME,
like "baby " starts with a "B." Now he
looks for a "B" on everything and
usually finds it right away
'
He likes lo "write" and always
stars out lr\ing to make a B. To tell
lite truth, fie can draw surprisingly
straight lines. Then we can help hint
go "around and around" for the rest
of his B
Lots of early childhood teachers
would prefer for parents to wait and
let THEM teach their entire class to
read and write. But a child with
boundless energy needs a lot of constructs
c things (o do. (By ron is happier
and more energetic since tubes
were placed in his cars lo handle
recurring car infections.)
Byron has his own unique way of
doing (hings. But Ik stiII reminds me
a lot of his Uncle Donny and Uncle
Gordon, as well as his mama, when
(hey were small
Fourth of July
Wanda Kay's birthday, like my
brother Stan's, is on the fourth of
July Best birthday wiMtcs to both of
them!
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Along the Robeson Trail
by Dr. Stanley Knick
v Director, UNCP Native American Resource Center V
In 1984 I came lo the land of the
Lumbcc todoanthropological research
on the health and growth of Indian
children. During that eighteen month
project, I learned a lot (Crowing Up
Down Home: Health and Growth in
the Lumbee Nation, 1986). One of the
things I learned, predictably, was that
it would take longer than eighteen
months to come to much of an
understanding of that complex whole
which is the Lumbcc.
A more unexpected outcome of
the endeavor was the lesson that not
much had been previously written
about how the Lumbcc might be
situated within a broad context ? a
context which would necessarily
include dicir prehistory, their early
contacts with outsiders, their
historical relations with the
newcomers; their culture as it exists
today, their health, their
relationship to the federal
government, the contemporary Issuesthey
face and other matters relating to
their culture as a whole.
When I began employment at the
Native American Resource Center in
1986, I wanted to apply holistic
anthropology in the land of the
Luinbec. The Native American
Resource Center, in the heart of
Luinbec Country, is a museum and
research institute ofThe University of
North Carolina at Pembroke. The
Center's mission is to educate and
serve the public concerning the
prehistory, history, culture, art and
contemporary issues of American
Indians. It seemed to me then that one
important activity of ThcCcntcrought
to be an attempt to situate the Lumbcc
widiin the broadest possible context,
in order to understand them better as a
culture and a people.
The Indians of Robeson County,
in southeastern North Carolina, arc the
largest concentration of Native
Americans cast of the Mississippi
River. They arc mostly Lumbcc
people, around 40,000 in their home
county alone, with a few relations who
prefer to focus on acknowledgment of
the Tuscarora part of their ancestry.
While altogether they constitute a large
group, they arc a people whose history
is among the least understood of any
ethnic group in America.
Limited understanding of their
past results from several historical
realities. Not the least of these is the
fact that before the founding of an
Indian Normal School here in 1887
there was very little literacy in the
community. The period before the
American Revolution is especially
critical in this concern, because it was
during this lime that the Lumbcc
community was apparendy evolving
into the form from which its presentlyrecognizable
state derived ? a period
when what we see now began to be
shaped by the diseases and culture of
the new Americans.
During this period when
sweeping changes were taking place
in the lives of Indians of this region,
virtually nothing was written by
Indian people themselves. Very little
which contributes to our
understanding of them was written by
anyone else. Thus modern historians
have been left With a view of Lumbcc
history predominantly based on a few
frequently biased and sometimes
completely wrong observations and
interpretations by outsiders. Atatimc
when the best and most revealing
historical and cultural information
could have been recorded, it generally
was not.
In the absence of many reliable
written records ? those made by or
at least verified by the people
themselves ? oral history has played
an important role in modem attempts
to comprehend the past of the
Lumbcc. This has been at once!
instructive and, to some extents
confusing. Part of the confusion arisesfrom
the fact that different families irt;
the Indian community have different*
oral traditions about the community's
history.
Some families pass down th(c
tradition that their ancestors movdd
into Robeson County from elsewhere,
from any of several Indian tribal
sources (Chcraw, 1 laltcras, T uscarora,
etc.). Some families believe that they
have always been right where they ap:
now, along the banks and tributaries Qf
the Lumbce River. Some believe that
among their ancestors arc members Of
John White's famed Lost Colony df
the 1580s, who were probably absorbed
by the coastal Indian population arourjd
the turn of the 17th century. Virtually
every oral tradition reported by any
family has its equally-vocal
detractors.
All share a common awareness of
their Native American heritage, but
there arc long-standing internal
debates about the details of (heir
history. However, this apparent
confusion is exactly what one would
p?(Mict would be the present ease
given the amalgamated nature of
the (jommunily. People combined
from various sources tell differing
stories of how they came to be
combined.
In the next segment, we will
continue discussion of the Lumbcc in
context. 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.
Housing Authority Does r
Not Tolerate Existence of
Gangs in Public Housing
Wc arc writing in response to the
June 29. 1997. article in the
Robesonian entitled "Robeson Man
Says Shooting Self-defense."
Thisarticlc reported the existence
ofa gang based in Chavis Parkknown
as the DOG CLAN. The Pembroke
Housing Authority stafT. residents,
and Board or Commissioners arc
appalled that such "hear-Say" would
be reported as Tact Wc dispute this
report and declare it untrue. Extensive
screening and monitoring procedures
arc in place that prevent such
an activity from going unnoticed.
Wc have had several ChaVis Park
residents make known their dissatisfaction
with (he portrayal of their
neighborhood as the home of a vicious
gang
So that wc all know , Mr. Webster
defi ncs a gang as "a group of persons
working to unlawful or antisocial'
ends " From prist experience in the
Tow n of Pembroke, these gangs consist
mostly of adolescent teenagers.
Wc reviewed our files There are
sixty persons eighteen years of age
and under who would qualify for this
type of gang Of those sixty, only
eight arc over the age of twelve (five
boys and three girls), hardly enough
to form such a notorious gang. Let it
be known that the Chavis Park com
plcx is noi the home of the DOCi
CLAN. \
One might ask. how did Chavis
Park become associated with the Dog
ClanTRcccntly. several alleged numbers
of the gang were evicted from
Chavis Park as well as Strickland
Heights. With this in mind, maybe
the source that provided the
Robconsinn with its information Whs
not aware that these gang members
had moved. Who knows? The source
may not know what it is talking
about.
We do not fault the Robesonian
for printing lire story. Thai's its job.'
However, we do hake exception to the
method used when reporting the face
of this story. Noonc should lake w hqt
a not her one say s as the absolute truth'
There will always be two sides to
every story. Our side is simple: we did
not tolerate the existence of gangs fit
our developments!
We hope that the residents of
Chavis Paik will not be "black-bal led'?
by this article. The vast majority on
our residents arc socially responsible!
people w ho do no deserve to be ntis-!
labeled We hope that you will agree}
l.emark Harris |
Pembroke Housing Authority i
Executive Director !
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