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One of the t>est sources 01
information about early relations
between Native Americans and
Europeans can be found in the
colonial records of the individual
colonies. While these documents must
be read within their historical context,
often making it necessary to interpret
some words into more modern
meanings, there is still a wealth of
information to be gleaned.
For example, the colonial
records of South Carolina include a
reproduction of the "Journal of the
Commissioners of the Indian Trade,
1710 to 1718." In this document we
learn that trade from Charles Town
(now Charleston) extended so far west
as to include Indian Nations along the
Mississippi River. The colonial
traders were often unscrupulous in
their dealings with the Indians, and
Indian complaints of bad treatment
caused the colony to set up a Board of
Commissioners to oversee trade
relations.
In this early period the Indians
mostly offered the colonists two
kinds of items in trade: animal skins,
and Indian slaves captured from
other tribes. One of the main
responsibilities taken up by the Board
of Commissioners was to try to
prevent Indian Nations from attacking
each other solely for the purpose of
taking slaves to be traded. This effort
was necessary because some colonial
traders encouraged the tribes with
whom they regularly dealt to seize
more and more Indian slaves from
other tribes.
One such instance appears in the
case of Alexander Long and Eleazer
Wiggan. It seems that Long had a
disagreement with some Yuchi
Indians (spelled Euchce in early
writings) sometime around 1711-1712.
It was apparently a dispute about trade
debts, and in the process Long lost part
of his hair to one of the Y uchi warriors.
Long swore to take revenge on the
Yuchi.
By 1714, Long and his partner
Wiggan were trading mainly with the
Cherokee (spelled Charikee in these
early documents). They soon
convinced the Cherokee to attack the
Yuchi solely to capture some slaves to
be traded in Charles Town. A Yuchi
woman and several children were
taken.
Soon after.vards, the matter came
before the Board of Commissioners,
who met on 5 May 1714 to decide
what should be done. Alter hearing
testimony from both sides, the
Commissioners ordered that the slaves
be returned to the Yuchi town from
which they were taken, and that Long's
and Wiggan's license to conduct
private trade with the Indians be
revoked.
This doesn't mean, however, that
the Commissioners were opposed to
trading in Indian slaves, only that
these particular slaves had been
seized in an inappropriate manner.
The Commissioners decided to stop
colonial traders from "instigating
sneak attacks of one friendly tribe
upon another to obtain slaves." and
also to stop them from purchasing
any Indian slaves "unless such slaves
were captured in war...and held for
the space of three days." In the
minds of the Commissioners, these
Yuchi folk had been taken for the
wrong reason, and then sold too
quickly.
In the next segment, find out what
happened to Eleazer Wiggan after he
lost his license to trade with Native
Americans. 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 (our
Internet address is www.uncp.edu/
nativemuseum).
Is Your Child Safe?
The following questions represent
an awareaness of chi ld safety that can
reduce the chances of injury to your
chilkd. If you can answer YES toi the
questions below, you have domne a
good job of making your chilkdren
safer.
By Ginger Sampson
Child Safety Checklist
Choking: Have you made sure
small children have no toys or parts of
toys that could cause choking?
Drowning: When you are around
the water, do you supervise children,
even those who know how to swim?
Bleeding: DO you store knives,
scissors, and other sharp items out to
children's reach?
Burns and Smoke Injuries: DO you
have at least one smoke detector on
each floor of your home?
Poisoning: Do you keep medicines
and cleaning materials locked up and
out of children's reach?
Road Injuries: DO small children
ride in approved child safety seats?
DO older children always' use safety
belts?
Falls: Are staircases and balconies
equipped with railings and gates?
More Safety Tips: The kitchen can
be the most dangerous room in the
house.
Always supervise young children
in the kitchen.
Keep sharp objects out of children's
reach.
Always turn the handles of pots
and pans on the stove inward so that
children can't reach them.
Be careful not to leave cups or
other containers of hot fluids where
children can reach them.
Keep the temperature of hot water
below i 20*F (49*C) by turning down
the temperature of your hot water
heater. . .
If you have any questions or comments
please contact your local Red
Cross at:: 910-521-3640.
Patricia Brayboy, Executive Director
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THE AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF SOUTH CAROLINA
PRESENTS
I no name pow wow
No name noooo problem!
Columbia's Annual Native American Cultural Festival
I . all day dancing, drumming, arts, foods
beautiful new larger location w/ bleacher seating
featuring:
MC: scott richards
Host Drum: sacred boy-z
Head Lady: linda underwood
Head Man: g t martinez
Color guard: all nations warrior society
And nancy basket, Cherokee storyteller
Aztec Fire Dancers / Hoop Dancer
theresa mendoza, pow wow princess
I Public Welcome
Donations: adults $5, children 6-12 $3
Children 5 and under-, elders free1
If you cannot afford the donation, the door is open
Your support is more important than your money!
This is a no alcohol / drug event
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^Pfernbroke Kiwanis Report
bvlDr. Ken .lohnson
/Legislator Ronnie Sutton presented
the 1999 "Floyd. Dennis.
Irene Flood Report" in lieu of a
legislature report. He w as presented
b> President l odd Jones. 40 inches
of tain. 44.000 homes flooded.
6.000 homes destroyed. 40.000 not
insured. 18.000 registered for help.
On October 27th 12 senators
went to Washington get help. Sutton
said, forty of us toured the
areas. 45 to 50 people were killed.
30.000 hogs were lost. 900 cattle
drowned. 48.00 shelters. 11.000
trailers destroyed. 30.000 registered
for help. S92.000.000 the cost.
Needed in one billion, eight hundred
eight million emergency fund.
Hundreds of roads closed. 2.900
water treatment plants damaged. It
took be seven years to get on the
transportation committee. Sutton
said. Cost of road repair is
S62.000.000. SI00.000.000 to remove
debris. The state will not
charge people for removing debris.
Rocky Mount, every house had
water above the windows, even the
expensive homes.
The state put in travel trailers,
hundreds ofthem so close together.
Leveled" property and put in sewer
lines and water lines. Most are from
Princeville. Ground is too soft, water
is too high. Record books are
wet. Unbelievable. Water was 13
feet deep, trailers swept away. 320
homes. 400 trailer were off their
blocks. The governor said no more
trailers, they have got to go. State is
trying to replace records. Funeral
' homes damaged or w iped out. Some
caskets had to be opened to identify
bodies. Some fanners just had
to leave tractors and not remove
them. Some bel ieved they were safe
but they were not safe. 300.onn
applications were passed out. 6,000
returned. Emergency requests must
be filed. People are eligible for
loans up to $600,000 at 3.5% interest.
So many people are not
responding. The Government will
convene after Thanksgiving to see
what more has to be done. A one
cent sales tax is being considered.
Our fund raiser spaghetti dinner
is set for December 3rd and pancake
breakfast is December 4th at
the Elementary school.
Invocation-Albert Hunt; Song
Leader- Ed Teets; Jade Restaurantmeeting
place.
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Stan P. Dajczak, M.D. is an orthopedic surgeon
originally from Canada who completed his residency in
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fellowship in arthroscopy, sports medicine and surgery of
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Dixon W. Cerber, M.D. comes to us from a multispecialty
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Staley T. Jackson, M.D. became an orthopedic sur
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