March I, 2000
Lumbcc Indian I ribe of North C arolina
PO Box 3490
Pembroke, INC 28372 I
Telephone*. 910-522-1251
Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact
And Notice of Intent to Request Release of Funds
These Notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural 1 ?r 'lie
activities to be undertaken by the North C jr<>!mj Indian Housing \
REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF Kl \p>
Oil or about March 17. 2000, the North Carolina Indian H-uivi-g Authority will
submit a request to the U.S. Department, of Housing and Urban' Development
Eastern'Woodlands Office of Native American Programs lor the leiea-e ^r.-pram
funds under the Native American Housing Assistance Self Determination \>. t o o >(\ as
amended, to undertake a project known as NAHASDA b?r fre purpose o? c m^t ng
new homes on scattered sites for an estimated cost ol S300.000.
FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
The Lumbee Indian Tribe pf North Carolina has determined that the protect will
have no significant impact on the human environment Therefore, an Environmental
Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act (NfcPA) of I960 is not
required Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Review
Record (ERR) on file at the North Carolina Indian Housing Authority's Office of PO Box
3490, Pembroke, NC 28372, Telephone (910) 522-1251, and may be examined or copied
weekdays from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Any individual, group or agency disagreeing with this determination or wishing to
comment on the project may submit written comments to the North Carolina Indian
Housing Authority. All comments received by March 17, 2000, will be considered by the
Lumbec Indian Tribe of North Carolina prior to submission of a request for release of
funds. Comments should specify which Notice they are addressing.
RELEASE OF FUNDS
The North Carolii^Tndian Wising Authority certifies to U.S. Department of I
Housing and Urban Dffvetnftngtil Eastern/Woodlands Oflice of Native American B
Programs that -Vn] capacity as I
Executive Directofof NClflA consents to accept the jurisdiction of the federal
Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental
review process and that these responsibilities have satislied. U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development Eastern/Woodlands Office of Native American Programs
acceptance of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and allows the
Lumbcc Indian Tribe of North Ctuolina to use Program Funds.
I OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Eastern/Woodlands Office
of Native American Programs (11UD) will accept objections to its release of funds and
the Lumbec Indian Tribe of North Carolina's certification for a period of fifteen days
I following the anticipated submission date of its actual receipt of the request (whichever is
later) only if it is on one of the following bases, (a) the certification was not executed by B
the Certifying Officer of North Carolina Indian Housing Authority of North Carolina; (h)
the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or
finding required by liUD regulation at 24 CFR Part 58: (c) the gTant recipient has
incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by
HUD; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a I
I written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental
quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required
procedures (24 CFR Part 58) and shall be addressed to U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development Eastern/Woodlands Office of Native American Programs, Ralph H.
Metcalfe Federal Building, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 606043507,
Telephone (800) 735-3239. Potential objectors should contact HUD to verily the
actual last day of the objection period.
I Nt^^arTi^u^^^^ritytxecutivc Director I
PO Box 3490
Pembroke, NC 28372
Telephone: (9101 522-1251
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by Dr. Stanley Knick, Director, Native American Resource Center, UNCP
In the last three segments we have
been looking at some of the different
types of structures built by Native
Americans in early times ? on the
Plains and the Plateau, in California
and the Arcuc. and the various forms
found in the Southwest. There are two
consistent truths about die traditional
Indian architecture we have discussed:
that structures were always built with
locally-available materials; and that
they were always made to suit local
weather conditions.
Between the Southwest and the
Plateau lies the Great Basin. This arid
region (including parts of Oregon.
Idaho. Montana. Colorado. Arizona
and California, most of Utah and all
of Nevada) is the traditional
homeland of Shoshonean-spcaking
nations such as the Paiute and
Chemehuevi, and the Hokanspeaking
Washo people. Since food
resources were sparsely distributed
in the Great Basin, the people had to
keep on the move during much of
their yearly cycle. Their housing was
ideal for these conditions. In the
warm part of the year they built
small, roofed windbreaks covered
with reed mats. In the cold months
they added grass, brushwood, soil
and bark to the lining of their
shelters. These bio-degradable
structures could be built quickly, and
were readily abandoned when the
group moved on to find new huntingand-gathering
ground.
On the Northwest Coast things
were completely different. In this
mild, wet climate lived such nations
as the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian,
Kwakiutl and Makah. Trees were
plentiful in this region, and the
people mainly lived in the same
vicinity all year, so substantial
houses were built from cedar. These
houses were long, rectangular
structures, some of them having
gabled roofs and others with sloping,
shed-type roofs. Parts of the houses
were detachable so they could be
used at nearby sites on a seasonal
basis. Large log posts were used as
supports, and sometimes included
carved totem poles.
Here in the Eastern Woodlands
there was a wide range of architectural
types. In some areas houses were
square, their walls made of poles or
cane and mud, lined with woven mats
and with aroof made of thatched grass.
Some structures were circular, with
clay walls, and others were open-ended
rectangular buildings. In other, mainly
more northerly areas of the
Woodlands, structures were often the
well-known multi-family longhouses
? built from poles and covered with
bark (elm was commonly used among
Iroquoian-speaking people). Also
common in the Eastern Woodlands
were domed thatch or bark houses
(commonly known by the Algonkian
word wigwam), sometimes built within
stockaded villages. Conical pole-andbark
houses were also built in some
areas.
Thomas Harriot wrote that in
Coastal North Carolina in the 1580s:
"their houses are made of small poles
made fast at the tops in round form...,
in most towns covered with barks, and
in some with...mats made of long
rushes from the tops of the houses
down to the ground. The length of
them is commonly double to the
v.rr?t.ith in some places they are but
f ? ? 1
twelve (to) sixteen yards long, and in
some other we have seen of four-andtwenty...
Their towns arc...small, some
containing but ten or twelve houses;
some twenty, the greatest we have
seen have been but of thirty houses; if
they be walled [the towns] it is only
done with barks of trees made fast to
stakes, or else with poles...fixed
upright and close one by another."
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/
nativcmuseuin).
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