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The Carolina Indian Voice Editorial & Opinion Page Send letters to the editor to: P.O. Box 1075, Pembroke, NC 28372 The editor reserves the right to edit libelous and I or lengthy letters J? Pembroke Chamber is busy with many projects The Pembroke Area Clumber of Commerce lias a number of projects underway and is calling upon business and community leaders in die grcater^Pembioke area for support According to R D. Locklear. Chamber President, the Chamber j is moving forward with an ambitious agenda. There arc several bcautification projects that are underway in Pembroke. The Chamber is pleased with the openings of several new businesses and the growth of several 1 businesses that ?irc Chamber members. "The face of Pembroke is changing quickly." Locklear said. Locklear stated. "The annual Chamber membership drive is underway and your assistance is ; needed Your membership dues ; are a major investment tliat y ou i can make to help improve the i quality of life in the area nd support the Pembroke Chamber. The PACC offers outstanding benefits to its members and many sen ices to the community." Locklear noted that the Cliamber leaders have worker! rlilioontU- in recent months on efforts to make major scenic improvements to the central business district, the Chamber has installed 12 street banners w hich are part of a major effort to improve the appearance of major roads in Town. The Cliamber would like to liavc at least 36 street banners, efforts arc underway to assist the Tow n of Pembroke with raising funds to build or improve two large public parks Locklear said we arc very pleased with the public support had comments that Chamber leaders have received regarding the preliminary plans for improvements "The Town of Pembroke is very patriotic and we support our veterans. We w ant to do more to improve tow n facilities that showcase the contributions of our veterans of foreign wars. The Chamber is making plans for very large membership meetings and gatherings that may focus on a hot issue tliat has gotten national publicity. Chamber members are very picascd with the efforts of Lumbee leaders to promote: recognition for the Lumbee tribe. Locklear sid the Pembroke Chamber strongly supports federal recognition of the Lumbee tribe and will help raise funds for the efforts to win friends in Washington. D C. You are encouraged to join with over 100 other local business leaders who arc working to improve commerce in the Pembroke area. For more information contact: Pembroke Area chamber of Commerce. PO Box 1978. 113 West Third Street. Pemberokc. NC 28372. Phone. 910-521-0647. Shown left to right: Robert Candido, Dr. Allen Meadors, angela Chavis, McDuffie Cummings, and new Pembroke Chamber Street Banners. Joseph Mitchell: A Reader's and Writer's Guide by UNCP Professor Emeritus Raymond J. Rundus Aji icon among his colleagues at The .Vex Yorker, Joseph Quincv Mitchell (1908-1969) was a staff writer on the magazine (although he published nothing in it after 1964) for 58 years. A native of a small Coastal Plains town of Fairmont. North Carolina, where his family s origins reached back to shortly after the Revolutionary War. he retnained-w hilc also becoming an urbane citizen of the world-thc consummate Southern gentleman In the most comprehensive study of Joseph Mitchell now available. Raymond J. Rundus draws upon his extensive and intimate knowledge of Robeson County (which Mitchell called "Black Ankle County" in his fictional work) and upon the ten y ears he lias spent researching, interview ing. and writing: about literary journalism, about The Xew Yorker, and about tlie w riters, editors. and photographers associated with Mr Mitchell By bringing forw ard this profile of a masterful writer and a genius in die understanding of human nature. Professor Rundus lias created a guide that will serve the interest and needs of readers, researchers, and writers. The influence of Joseph Mitchell's two favorite writers. James Joyce and Mark Twain, can be seen in almost everyone of his stories. He took especial interest in the freaks and eccentric and street-level characters of Lower Manliattan A world-class listener, he would gain their trust, and they would open up to him their most bothersome predicaments and their innermost aspirations. Though toned down to some extent in his later writing, the "imagery in vulgar conversation" especially appealed to him. and he took great pains to get it just right in the dialogue of his characters, such as Cockeye Johnny Nikanov. the self-proclaimed "King of the Gypsies" who was transmogrified into Cockeye Johnny Deinbo in the Broadway musical Bajour. w hich was based upon tw o of Mitchell's Kew Yorker stories. The 2000 film adaptation of Joe Gould's Secret, directed by and starring Stanley Tucci with Sir Ian Holm. paid tribute both to Joseph Mitchell as an author and to the milieu from which he created his greatest work. Regarded by such disparate commentators as Salman Rushdie and Alec Wilkinson as the great artist/reporter of the twentieth century. Joseph Mitchell (for his 1992 anthology Up in the Old Hotel) was one of only two North Carolina writers (A.R. Aininons, is the other) of the past century that Harold Bloom has predicted would survive the "Chaotic Age" and endure in literary posterity. About the Author Raymond J. Rundus was reared on a small farm near Blue Rapids, Kansas: He was educated at the College of Emporia. Wayne State University (Detroit), and the University of Nebraska. After serving for two years with the Seventh Army in Germany (where he met Brigitte Obermeyer. his wife of 44 years), he returned to Kansas to teach high school English and French from 1960 to 1965. The next five years he spent teaching and chainng the English Department at the College Emporia. Named a Professor of English at UNCPembroke, he chaired English and Communicative Arts during his first nine vears. During his tenure at UNCP (1970-1996) he acted in several "Little Theater" productions, wrote and directed a number of grants, published widely in professional and scholarly journals, taught courses from Freshman Composition to graduate seminars, and served as an Adjunct Professor in the Union Institute's Ph.D. program. Like the subject of his book. Professor Rundus has in his "retirement" become active in several civic and professional groups"~and. an avid golfer with a single-digit handicap, he has had leadership roles in several golf associations He is a charter member of the "Community Advisory Board" of the Fayetteville Obser\'er, a post requiring the publication of several "Op-Ed" essays. St. Pauls Christmas Parade set for Dec. 5 The 48th annual St Pauls Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade will be held in St. Pauls on Friday 5 It will begin at 4:30 p.m. Entries arc now being sought .The entry fee for queens and kings is $25. The fee for commercial entries is $50. There is no cltarge for non-profit groups. To enter, please call the Chamber at 865-3489 or The St. Pauls Review newspaper at 865-4179 and ask for Paul. = iiili i iutu mum ';,v,oc"tt ,?tma > ||| i|| S<!i -- W\W ~ ?mr |i?|f C?KI>MI? iun rr lity ' lnwik hi?'.?i [ ,?, >?T!?i BUmii laiLiuss 14 qqn Eeu3 "tfTTw iSl I If Mil 1 I .If you have Medicare or Private Insurance, you may be eligible to receive your DIABETIC & RESPIRATORY SUPPLIES such as Nebulizer Pumps & Nebulizer Medication, Albuterol, Ipratropium (Atrovent) & more AT NO COST TO YOU!! For more'information call DIABETIC SUPPLY PROGRAM TOLL FREE 1 -888-466-2678 1 -88 8 -4NO -COST (No HMO patients, please) Best in Show The blue ribbon panel checked us out from every conceivable angle. The skill of our surgeons. The compassion our staff exhibits. Training...technology., clinical research. And what was the judgement of the independent study* commissioned by Business North Carolina? FirstHcalth Mcxire Regional was awarded first place for being the best hospital in the state for heart care. Why settle for anything less than excellence? FsrstHealth OF THE CAROLINAS www first health org For more information contact your physician or call us at 1 HIH)-724-2236 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA RANKIN6 1 C Aft 010 LO 6 V 'Ranking based on Medicare data and adjusted far app, mortality and complications A Along the RobesonTrail ?' v.5 by Dr. Stan Knick, Director, UNCP Native American Resource Center [Author's Note: This is the concluding part of a two-part series on "Diet, Sassafras and Isolation: Wisdom from Native America." It seems appropriate to re-visit this topic every few years, because the health conditions described therein are still persistent in the Native American community. In the first segment, we saw that the concepts of knowledge, wisdom and understanding can be connected to diet, sassafras and isolation in terms of Indian health. We learned that the Ancestors had no diabetes, that their diet was very diverse, and that thjy never ate fried foods.] We also know from various historical sources that these same Ancestors had a very highly developed traditional medical knowledge. There were specialists in every Indian tribe and nation who knew the medical uses ofnhundreds of plants. For every ailment, there was an appropriate treatment. Arthur Barlowe recorded in the 1580s that among Indian people in eastern North Carolina one of the most commonly used plants was sassafras. A hundred and twenty years later, John Lawson reported that the most commonly used medicinal plant among eastern North Carolina Indians was still sassafras ? used as an effective treatment for a variety of things, from cuts and bruises to reduction of fevers and even purifying blood. Two hundred and eighty years after that, my research among the Lumbee showed that sassafras was still the most commonly reported traditional plant remedy, although only about ten percent of the Lumbee said they still use it. We also know that one of the ways Native Americans in North Carolina stayed alive through the colonial period was a survival by isolation. Being an Indian in colonial North Carolina was a very unpopular thing to be. Native people were driven off their lands, enslaved and even killed just for being Indian. Native communities were able to survive into modem times in many instances because they remained geographically and culturally isolated -- in "The Meadows" in the land of the Saponi; among the swamps in the land of the Lumbee; in the pines in the land of the Waccamaw. And while being isolated helped them to survive and remain the vibrant Native Americbh communities they are today, that same isolation also had negative consequences on their health. Health care and health education were limited. The common Native American diet became much less diverse, and often high in sugar and fat. Poor economic conditions were common in these isolated rural communities, conditions which had their own negative effects on health and nutrition. The overall health of surviving Indian communities suffered, and Indian people became increasingly susceptible to diseases which in traditional times they had not experienced ~ for example, diabetes. What should we understand from all of this? First, it reveals that there are important lessons to be learned from looking at modern Indian health through a traditional and historical lens. What do you think would happen to the high rates of type II diabetes among North Carolina Native Americans if more people returned to the diverse diet and healthy cooking techniques of the Ancestors? It could be done. We know what they ate, and how they cooked it. This same kind of traditional and historical perspective can be useful in understanding other modern health problems hypertension; substance abuse; fetal alcohol syndrome and others. Second, it tells us that traditional Native American cultural knowledge and cultural wisdom have not entirely disappeared -- even if they have been partly hidden by the passage of time and the invasion of other cultures. Traditional "knowledge of plant remedies like sassafras and willow, and traditional wisdom about health ? for example that the health of the whole person and the whole community requires spiritual balance as well as physical balance ? such knowledge and wisdom about health are still' available to us. Traditional Native American cultural knowledge and wisdom can be used to promote better health now and in the future -- if we understand, and apply, what we can learn from the past. 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