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Welcome Home Lumbees "CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE yOUJMEj^NVf^ER 27 _ THURSDAY, JULY /, 2002 25 Cents I Dei dra Lock I ear . Hollie Young 2002-2003 Teen and Miss Lumbee Crowned The Lumbee Regional Development Association. Inc is pleased to present to you the 2002-2003 Teen Miss Lumbee Deidra Locklear. daughter of Dcnac! and Joan Locklear. and the 2002-2003 Miss Lumbee Hollie Young, daughter of Lonnie and Joan Young Deidra and Hollie were crow ned Saturday. June 29. at the Lumbee Homecoming Annual Teen and Miss pageant. The theme of ttus year 's pageant was "Red. White and Blue Forever.: For more information about the new princesses or Lumbee Homecoming. visit the agency 's website at www,lumbee org. Taylor Smith UHK Kristen Emanuel 2002-2003 Little And Junior Miss Lumbee The Lumbee Regional Development Association. Inc. is pleased to present to you the 2002-2003 Little Miss Lumbee Taylor Smith, daughterof Charles and Pamela Smith, and the 2002-2003 Junior Miss Lumbee Kristcn Emanuat; daughter of Bobby and Donna M Emanual Taylor and Kristcn were crowned Friday. June 28.2002 at the Lumbee Homecoming Annual Little and Junior Miss Pageant The theme of this year's pageant was "United We Stand." For more information about the new princesses or Lumbee Homecoming, please visit the agency's website at wwWtlumbec.org. Two Robeson Students Attend International Summit Mr Brandon Dean Hunt of Lumberton. was recently selected to join more than 1,000 students from around the world for the International Summer Summit of Young Technology Leaders taking place in Austin, Texas from July 7 through 16.2002. The Summit will feature seminars led by technology professionals focusing on such topics as programming, gaming, web design and virtual reality, among others Brandon is the son of Mickey and Clementine Hunt of Lumberton. NC, a rising senior at Fairmont High School, and an active member of the Rewarding Youth Achievement (RYA) Program. The RYA Program is funded by a federal grant through the U S. Department of Labor and administered by the Lumber River Workforce Development Board, which will sponsor Brandon The Summit is sponsored by Envision EMI, an education management and marketing company Founded in 1989. Envision EMI has offices in Washington. D C. and Austin. Texas Students attending the Summit were nominated by school representatives and selected Envision based on their academic achievement and community involvement. William J Johnson of Pembroke will also attend Bell Becomes District Court Judge James Gregory Bell has been appointed District Court Judge by North Carolina Governor Mike lias ley. Hell, the son oj James F. (Buddy) and Sarah Hell of Pembroke, is married to Honita H. Hell. They reside in l.umherton with their two children. Hell Ls a graduate of the Sorth Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill, ISC. Hell replace Judge Gary Locktear who was appointed to the Superior Court at the death of Judge Dexter Hrooks. Hell was a practicing attorney in Lumberton prior to his appointment. EMC Director Congratulates the new Miss North Carolina Ms. Madie Rae l.ocklear, member of the Board of Directors of EMC, um visiting Raleigh during the week of the Miss North Caro- , Una Pageant. She is shown with the former Miss North Carolina, Ashley House. Ms. House crowned Rebekah Revels, Miss North Carolina during the week of Ms. l.ocklear's visit. She expresses her sincere congratulations to Miss Revels. "You have made us alt proud," Locklear said. "I am really expecting Rebekah to be the first Native American to become Miss America in Spetember." Visiting With Former Miss North Carolina 1/1)1 III I Mr. Robert Strickland, a member of the Robeson Community Board of Trustees and the Lumbee River EMC Board of Directors, was in Raleigh during the week of the Miss North Carolina Pageant. He is shoivn with Ashley House, former Miss North Carolina, who relinquished her crown to Rebekah Revels, Lumbee, during that same week. William Lawrence Harris Gradautes from UNC-CH Chape/ Hill- On Sunday May 19, 2002, William Laurence Harris , youngest son of Peggy and Grady Harris/pictured above), graduatedfrom the University of North Carolina at Chapl Hill with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry. He has been accepted to the UNC-Chapel Hill School Of Medicine and the East Carolina Brody School of Medicine. With his deep commitment to being a Carolina Tarheel, William will enrollat UNC-Chapel Hill this August. William was also awarded one of only twenty University of NCBoard of Governor's scholarships. WiUiam would like to thank all of his family and friends for their supprt and prayers during his academic career. Lumbee Homecoming to Feature Young Writers Pembroke, JVC- Native American Literary Voices will show case w inners of the seventh annual National Lumbee Writing Contest at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke on July 6 Five Young authors will present their works at a reading in the Dial Humanities Building at 2:30 p. in. There were four categories: elementary school (grades 4-6). middle school (grades7-9), high school (grades 10-12) and higher education ( full time university undergraduates). Each category had a choice of poetry and a fictional prose, and the theme was "Lumbecsand athletics." Leslie Lovctte. in the sixth grade at Deep Branch Elementary , shared ^elementary school poetry honors with Andic Mitchell, a fifth grader from Garner. N.C. Lovctte's poem is called "The Road to the Final Four," while Mitchell's is called "I Wont Be Left Behind! Lumbee Maiden " Linsey Dial, a fourth grader from South Scotland Elementary, won the elementary school fiction category with her piece. "Homerun " Lumberton High School ninth -grader Alese Harris won the middle school fiction category with "The Dance.'while classmate Brittany Paige Lowry won the poetry category with "Rabbit Hunting Through Native Eyes." Each student recicved $100 and a copy of "The Only Land I Know.'a Lumbee classic co-authored by the Late Adolph L Dial, for whom the Dial Humanities Building is named The prizes were made possible this year by a grant from the UNCP Foundation and the Department of American Indian Studies. At the reading, Steve Richardson's book about Oklahoma University basketball in Robeson Lumbee Festival Dinner Theater Experience The Lumbee Tribal Festival Committee will host a Dinner Theatre Experience at the North Carolina Indian Cultural Center in Pembroke on Saturday. July 6. 2002 Dinner w ill start at 6:00 p in followed by the premier performance of "Strike at the Wind" at 7:30 p.m. The cost of the Dinner and Theater Experience will be $20 Tickets arc now on sale and can be purchased at the Tribal Office at 707 Union Chapel Rd in Pembroke Legislative Redistricting Debacle: A Report to the People by Rev. Ron Sutton of Pembroke The United States Constitution requires all states to redraw district lines for certain elective offices following each census In our ease, based on the 2000 census, the North Carolina General Assembly was required to redraw all congressional and legislative districts Since North Carolina rccicvcd a 13th Congressional scat. Utah has sued twice in the federal courts in an attempt to get the new scat from North Carolina The state has survived the first suit and the battle is ongoing fot the second challenge. As to legislative rcdistricting(North Carolina House and Senate) the General Assembly drew new districts in 2001 Since North CArolina is a Voting Rights State, the plans had to be prc-clcarcd by the U S JusliccDcpartmcnt in Washington. Both new maps were prc-clcarcd and a filing period opcncd.ln response to a Republican lawsuit, both plans were alleged in Johnston County Superior Court to be unconstitutional. After several hearings, the judge agreed and declared both maps unconstitutional. First hcdismisscdui had the plantiffs dismiss all political allegations from the lawsuit and he ruled solcy on the issue of the maps splitting county lines. The North Carolina Constitution clearly states that the House and Senate districts arc to be drawn without splitting county lines That task became virtually impossible following the U S Supreme Court ruling on the "one person -one vote"concept. Since the county splitting issue was not pre-clearcd by the U.S. Justice Department, subsequent decisions by both federal court panel and the U S Justice Department were that the counts splitting prohibition was non binding and unenforceable Thus, district lines in the 80 s and 90 s were drawn with split counties with little or no regard for that constitutional provision The recent lawsuit focused on that point and that is all the judge considered in his descions declaring both the House and Senate maps unconstitutional The trial courts niling was upheld following April 4. 2002 arguments and the North Carolina Supreme Court sent an order to the trial court in Johnston County directing that a hearing be held to determine if the General Assembly had the time and could re-draw district lines in accordance with their order In its order the Supreme Court directed that districts be drawn following their format that ironically required the splitting of county lines Please note there is an absolute ban on splitting county lines in the North Carolina State Constitution and the courts declared my Sutton map 3 unconstitutional because I split several counties in the process Yet in their order directing the redrawing of lines, they now authorized and even directed that county lines were to be split and how we were to split them It should be noted that the Supreme Court order directed the General Assembly or the trial judge, as appropriate, to draw maps in a specific sequence First. Voting Rights! VRA) districts were to be drawn. Then any county that could stand alone with one member wasto be drawn In our ease that applied only Lincoln and Wiles Counties Thirdly, all remaining counties that could be drawn whole with two or more members were to be drawn In all cases the district population must be maintained at plus/minus five percent Then the rest of the state was to be drawn by grouping the remaining counties in as small group as possible Then within the small groupings. individual single member districts were to be drawn splitting county lines as necessary for the one man -one vote concept If the trial courtdctcrmmcd the General Assembly COTild not or would not redraw such lines or if maps drawn did not meet the criteria of the Supreme Court, the trial court was directed to draw its own interim plans Following that hearing. the judge agrcd the General Assembly could draw such lines and he gave them slightly over a week to do so New district lines were redrawn and presented to the court as directed by Monday noon, May 20. 2002 A hearing on the new maps with live testimony was held beginning on Wednesday. May 22. 2002. in the trial court My Vice-Chairman Rcprcscnativc Joe Hackney, and I were the live w itnesscs for the House As the chairman of the House Select Committee on rcdistricting . I explained why I drew certain districts the way I did and how i complied with the Supreme Court's order This included the splitting of county lines which the Constitution absolutclyforbids but is now authorized by our Supreme Court Continued on Page Z
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