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Published each Thursday in Pembroke, N.C.
CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE
"Building Communicative Bridges In A Tri-Racial Setting"
Volume 28 Number 8 Thursday, February 22. 2001 25c
Literary Poetry Contest
Deadline is March 1
Pembroke, NC-The popular Poetry
and Short Prose Contest at UNC Pembroke
is back this year with prizes
totaling $700. The competition has
three prizes in two divisions, one for
the general public and one for high
school students.
The contest is sponsored by the
Frierids of the Sampson-Livermore Library
at UNCP. In addition, UNCP tshirts
have been donated for the highs
school winners.
The deadline for submissions is
March 1. The reading by contest winners
will be at 3 p.m. on Wednesday,
April 4, in Moore Hall auditorium.
The rules and applications are available
atthe library, by calling(910) 5216659
or on-line at http://
www.uncp.edu/library andthen clicking
on the contest links. Entries must
be typewritten.
Two entries may be accepted per
person, with prizes limited to one per
person. First prize is $100, with $50
awarded for second place and S25 for
third place.
The general contest is open to the
public (over age 18). The high school
category is open to all students in
Robeson, Bladen, Columbus,
Cumberland, Hoke and Scotland Counties.
A separate contest will be held for
UNCP students and UNCP faculty and
staff, who are not eligible to enter the
general contest.
Entries will be "blind judged" again
this year. Entries should not include
the author's name on the work.
"We're very excited about the chance
to bring authors to campus and to hear
the entries," said contest coordinator
Jean Sexton, assistant director and
coordinator of Technical Services.
"Last year was a successful.start and
we're ready to grow!"
For applications or more information,
please call Ms. Sexton at 910-521 -6659
or e-mail her at sexton@nat.uncp.edu.
Faye Locklear presents the Woman of the Year Award to Pembroke
Business arid Professional Women's Organization member, Mrs. TessieHunt
Dr. Felicia Turner speaks to the Pembroke Business and Professional
Women's Organization Feb. 5 about motivation.
Pembroke Business and Professional Women's
Organization Chooses "Woman of the Year"
by Yvonne Barnes Dial
Many groups are totally blessed to
have among them an individual who
reaches bey ond limits in assisting others,
giving to the unfortunate, sharing
words of comfort and bringing joys to
hundreds of people.
The Pembroke Business and Professional
Women's Organization
considers itself lucky to have just a
jewel as a member of the club. Mrs.
Tessie Hunt who has beenamemberof
the organization was honored as
Woman of the Year at the monthly
meeting Monday, February 5th.
Mrs. Hunt who just celebrated her
eightieth birthday February 8, has been
amemberoftheclubsince 1976andhas
participated at the local, state and national
levels. Blessed with a talent in
arts and crafts, she has provided countless
gifts to members as well as to the
organization at every level. One major
gift leaving individuals in awe and
appreciation has been several handmade
quilts with proceeds distributed
to persons seeking scholarships to
further their education. She has devoted
countless hours of her time to
give to BPW and promote women and
children.
Her unselfish devotion and kind
heart has touched so many people and
her delightful sense of humor has
brought many laughs, togetherness,
and a closeness among people. Although
she deserves beyond measure
the prestigious award of being chosen
Woman of the Year. Mrs. Hunt stated
with disbelief. "I sat and cried. I felt
unworthy."
Mrs. Hunt finished Pembroke Indian
Normal School in 1942. During her
teaching career, she taught at Magnolia
for 28 years and Fairmont High
School for two years, retiring in 1978.
She also worked for thirty nine years
as a receptionist and performing any
other duties for Dr. Horace Baker and
worked as a nurse's assistant at Baker's
Hospital for five years.
She has one son. Lloyd, who manages
Advance Auto in Lumberton on
West 5th Street.
Dr. Felicia Turner was the guest
speaker for the organization's monthly
meeting, sharing tips and techniques
for members to motivate themselves
and find their lives worthwhile and
productive.
New Bern District
Superintendent
Dr. Sam Wynn
Endorsed for Bishop
RALEIGH, NC? Dr. Sam Wyrni,
United Methodist New Bern District
Superintendent, has been selected
by the North Carolina Conference
delegation to the Southeastern
Jurisdictional (SEJ) Conference
as it's nominee for the episcopacy.
A special session of the SEJ Conference
will be held February 2628
at Lake Junaluska.NC to elect
and consecrate a bishop to fill the
vacancy created by the death of
Florida Area Bishop Cornelius L.
Henderson on December 7, 2000.
Following the election, all Episcopal
assignments will be under consideration
by the SEJ Episcopal
Committee.
The NC Conference delegation selected
Wynn at a February 3rd
meeting. Dr.Kermit L. Braswell,
the annual conference nominee at
the 2000jurisdictional conference,
sent an e-mail message to delegates
before the meeting asking that he
not be considered as the delegation
episcopal nominee.
"Sam Wynn is the first Native
American to serve as a district superintendent
from his home conference
and the first Native American
to be an episcopal nominee from
his home conference," said Robby
Lowry, past conference lay leader
and a Native American. Both are
members of the Lumbee Tribe. Dr.
Wynn is also the Southeastern Regional
Native American Caucus
episcopal nominee.
"Hie procedure for elections is different
from previous jurisdictional
conferences. "No delegation campaigning
for nominees will be permitted.
A brief biographical statement
and a photograph of each
nominee will be posted on the jurisdictional
website," said Dr.
Kermit Braswell, delegation chair.
"All nominees, beginning at 1 PM
on February 26, will make a five
minute presentation to the conference
and then will be available in
the Harrell Center Auditorium for
informal conversation with delegates.
The first ballot will be taken
prior to dinner," Dr. Braswell said.
Dr. Wynn has been an elder in the
North Carolina Conference since
1982. He has a BA from Pembroke
State University, M. Div. from
Asbury Theological Seminary and
D. Min. from Drew Theological
Seminary.
He served pastoral appointment in
the NC Conference at Pleasant
Grove, Clarkton, Bluefield. and
Grace in Fayetteville. In addition,
he was a summer intern on the
Chippewa Indian Reservation in
Michigan. Summer intern pastor at
Prospect UMC, received a special
appointment to the Navajo United
Methodist Mission School in New
Mexico, served as executive director
of the Native American International
Caucus, and as an assistant
to the cabinet for Native
American concerns before becoming
a district superintendent in
1996.
Dr. Wynn has served on numerous
annual conference, jurisdictional
conference, and general church
committees. He was a delegate ti
the 1992, 1996. and 2000 General
Conference where he was vice
chairperson of the General/Judicial
Administration Legislative Committee.
He and his wife. Rosemary, have a
son, Christopher Little Bear,
by Bill Norton
For further information call Dr. F.
j Belton Joyner. (919) 832-9560 or
/ Dr. Sam Wynn (252)635-9704.
11th Annual North Carolina Indian Juried Art
Exhibition: A Part of Indian Unity Conference
11th ANNUAL NORTH CAROLINA
+NDIAN JURIED ART
EXHIBITION
Part of the 26th
Annual North Carolina Indian
Unity Conference
Holiday Inn Bordeaux,
Fayetteville, N.C.
March 14-17, 2001
CALLING ALL NATIVE
AMERICAN ARTISTS OF
NORTH CAROLINA
PRESENTLY A RESIDENT OF
A NATIVE LINING IN ANOTHER
STATE:
The theme of the 11th Annual
North Carolina American Indian
Juried Art Exhibition, a major part
of the 26th Annual North Carolina
Indian Unity Conference this year,
is ENVISIONING THE FUTURE
THROUGH NATIVE
ART TRADITIONS. The Juried
Art Exhibition will open to the
Conference attendees and the Public
on Thursday, March 15 at 1:00
p.m.- Friday, March 16 at 6:00 p.m.
Karen Harley- member of the
Haliwa Saponi Tribe of Hollister,
North Carolina, has been named
the featured artist for this year's
Juried Art Exhibition.
Karen, now living in Laurel, Mary-*
land, is a professional and nationally-known
visual artist. Her work
has been exhibited in the Guilford
Native American Art Gallery and
in several of the United Tribes
Juried Art Exhibitions. She has
advertised in NATIVE PEOPLE,
a national magazine for Native artists.
She was selected by United
Tribes of North Carolina as the artist
to design the North Carolina
Indian Heritage Month posters for
1997 and 1999.
All American Indian artists- including
any media such as paintings,
bead work, basketry, regalia
making, sculpture, carvings,
gourds, feathers, dream catchers,
drum making, etc.- are eligible for
entering a maximum of 3 pieces
of art in the Exhibition for judging.
Prizes will be awarded to the
winners as follows:
BEST OF SHOW CATEGORY$500.
BEST OF CONTEMPORARY $250.
BEST OF TRADITIONAL - $250.
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S50, each
The Juried Art Exhibition will be
judged by a panel of professional
artists or arts administrators.
The Exhibition will be coordinated
by Triangle Native American Society,
and Urban Indian Center
based in Raleigh and serving the
Indian people of the Triangle communities.
Triangle Native American
Society is state recognized by
the North Carolina Commission of
Indian Affairs. Gwen Locklear, a
member of Triangle Native American
Society and a well-known artist
and owner/operator of an arts
and crafts business in the Triangle
area, will be the contact person for
the Juried Art Exhibition.
For information about the N.C. Indian
Unity Conference or the Gospel
Singing, please call Gladys
Hunt at (910) 483-8442 or contact
your local Indian Tribal organization
or the NC Commission of Indian
Affairs at (919) 733-9558.
For information about the North
Carolina Indian Arts and Crafts
Market, please call Jane Jacobs.
United Tribes coordinator, at (910)
592-3541
NAACP Chair Julian Bond
Addressses UNCP Audience
PEMBROKE, N.C.- NAACP
Chair Julian Bond told a Black
History Month audience of about
300 at The University of North
Carolina at Pembroke that the 91year-old
civil rights organization
continues to stand for justice,
equality, and civil rights.
"We are perceived as being against
a lot of things," Mr. Bond said, "We
continue to work for civil rights and
to fight racial discrimination."
Mr. Bond, who is an articulate
spokesman and veteran civil rights
activist, offered his views on a wide
variety of topics from his Martin
Luther King Jr. to the new Bush
administration. He also offered a
personal recollection about Pembroke.
In 1958, his family moved from
Pennsylvania to Atlanta, and as a
15-year-old, Bond said he was very
nervous about living in the segregated
South. An article in Life
Magazine that year about Lumbee
Indians routing a Ku Klux Klan
meeting near Pembroke gave him
hope.
"I saw pictures of Indians with
rifles, and they had just run the
Klan out of town," Mr. Bond said,
"That picture told me there were
people who stood up to these bigots."
The crowd loved it.
Mr. Bond, who teaches history at
the University of Virginia, offered
a historical perspective of the African
American struggle to win
civil rights under the leadership of
Martin Luther King Jr.
"This marvelous man, who was my
college teacher, speaks in death and
memory to whites and blacks has
he never did in life," Mr. Bond said,
"We honor him because of what he
means in our imperfect and selective
memories - the stoic who faced
death, the major figure of his period,
the spokesman for nonviolence,
able to articulate for whites
what blacks wanted, and for blacks
what would be required if freedom
was to be the prize,"
Mr. Bond maintains that the popular
conception of King is only half
the story.
"We do not honor the severe critic
of capitalism and its excesses. We
do not honor the pacifist who
preached that all wards are evil.
We do not honor than who linked
apartheid in South Africa and
South Alabama." Mr. Bond said.
Mr. Bond said that the freedoms
won by King remain a dream today
and gains made during the civil
rights era are in danger.
"Only, my father's generation
stands between me and slavery."
Mr. Bond said. "It has been only
35 years since the protections of the
law and Constitutk^Fwere officially
extended to all. Now some
people are telling us 35 years are
enough,"
"Then, racists sponsored laws requiring
segregation in all public
places: now, their ideological descendants
sponsor laws mandating
the end of fairness in all public
places," he said.
Mr. Bond said that the precedent
that President Clinton set of naming
a cabinet that "links like
America" has continued into the
Bush Administrations. But, he
warned, "ethnic identity is no guar
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antee of fidelity to fairness, no substitute
for policies that promote
fairness."
Congress is more hostile to the civil
rights cause today than it has been
for many years, Mr.Bond said. He
cited attacks on affirmative action,
theft of black votes in the recent
presidential election and prohibitions
against a fair count of minorities
in the 2000 Census.
Mr.Bond said the Civil rights cause
is not dead, despite having to "refight
battles we thought we had
won."
"We have a revitalized NAACP 91
years strong- prepared for the
challenges that lie ahead," he said.
"We have a long and honorable tradition
of social justice: if
yesterday's protests have faded
from the headlines, they have not
faded from out collective conscience,"
"They still send the message that
whin we act together, we can overcome,"
he said. "We must fight
discrimination, wherever it raises
its ugly head- in the halls of government,
in corporate suites or in
the streets."
Mr. Bond said the theft of black
votes that occurred in the last presidential
election would not happen
again.
"We heard before the election, your
vote counts," Mr.Bond said. "We
learned after the election." your
vote may not be counted."
"We do have work to do." he said
in conclusion. "It is not easy work,
but we have heroes, hope and history
on our side."
UNCP's Distinguished Speaker
Series cohtinues an April 10 with
television and radio personality
Oliver North.
St. Pauls plans
Annual Folk Arts
Festival
The Town of St. Pauls will host
the annual North Carolina Folk
Arts Festival on Saturday. March
24 from 9 a.m. to-5 p.m.. in downtown
St. Pauls. Organizers are
seeking traditional folk arts (potters,
candlemakers, soap makers,
etc.) to demonstrate their skills. In
addition, arts and crafters. vendors
and entertainers ware invited to
participate. For more information,
please contact Terry at (910) 8654179
or Beverly Huggins at 8654026.
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THE INDIAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER AND THE
NORTH CAROLINA INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER PRESENT
THE
1* ANNUAL
ART SHOW AND SALE
MARCH 6, 2001 THRU APRIL 6, 2001
RECEPTION MARCH 30, 2001 at 6:00 p.m.
AT THE INDIAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER
ART GALLERY
(OLD PEMBROKE INDIAN HIGH SCHOOL,
NEXT DOOR TO UNC-P CHANCELLOR'S RESIDENCE)
CATEGORIES:
HIGH SCHOOL (GRADES 9-12)
COLLEGE AND POST-GRADUATE
ADULT (NON-PROFESSIONAL)
This Art Show and Sale is being held in conjunction with The Gathering of the Eastern
Nations at Sunrise Festival
Co-sponsored by NCICC and Southeastern NC Agricultural Center and
Farmer's Market