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Published each Thursday in Pembroke, N'.C. I Car?::IM ta.VocE "Building Communicative Bridges In /\ Tri-Racial Setting" JUL 0 9 2004 VOI-LME 32NUMBER 25 THURSDAY. JULY 1.2004 lmm 1958 Klu Klux Klan Warriors to be honored July 3 i I he Indian Honor Association will honor Warriors who participated in the 1958 Klu K.lu\ Klan Rally The ceremony w ill be held in front of Old Main on the UNCP campus on Saturday. July 3rd at 8 30 a m A special presentation to the survivors or their representatives will be made This is the second \car that the Indian Honor Association. Garth Locklr.,r. Chairman, w ill present med als of honor lo (hose w ho partici- fif paled in the Rally See photos of these Warriors in I this edition of the Carolina Indian I Voice, published every Thursday 1 by First American Publications Pembroke Park project I surpasses fund raising goal PEMBROKE, N.C. - "Ever, one can own a piece of the park. " said Pembroke Town Park fund-raising coordinator Spencer Howington Brick "pavers" to memorialize' wed ones at the new Pembroke Park will be on sale at the upcoming Lumbce Homecoming. The personalized bricks will pave a walkway at a veteran's memorial at the renovated park Groundbreaking for $ 175,000 in improvements at the park, which is located at the corner of 3rd Street and Odum Road in Pembroke. will be after the Lumbce . Homecoming Parade on Saturday. July 3 at 11.30 a m Representative from the Town of Pembroke. UNC Pembroke and the Pembroke Area Chamber of Commerce. which is spearheading the fund-raising efforts, met at the park June 24 to announce that they have raised $73,620 for the project. "Ti.'S has exceeded our goal of $50,000 that we set for Lumbee Homecoming." Howington said. "Our goal is to complete fundraising by Thanksgiving and begin construction early in 2005." The latest gifts came from the individuals, businesses and the town. A gift of S15.000 from the town's 2004-05 budget was approved by the Pembroke Town Council last w eek Recent major contributions came from: Charles Alton Maynor. Mary Doris Dial and Pembroke Hardware. County Commissioner Noah Woods. Oxendinc Tire. Dial Insurance. Ransom Insurance. Professional Providers. First Bank and Adrcne Locklear As more tape was added to the fundraising "thermometer." tents were being erected in the park for Lumbee Homecoming. The park is an important part of the town and a gateway to UNCP. "You see that slide over there." said Pembroke Mayor Milton Hunt. "I slid down it as a boy. It's 50 years old." The ambitious park design includes a veteran's memorial w alkway, a history exhibit, playground equipment, wrought iron fencing. landscaping, a water feature and bathrooms. "It should be a great addition for the town and the University." said Pembroke Town Manager McDuffie Cummings. "Because of its location, the park is very important to the town, and it is widely used by Pembroke residents ; nd visitors." A model of the planned park will be on display during Lumbee Homecoming on July 3. It is on display during business hours at the new Pembroke Municipal Building Lumbee Guaranty Bank. Healthkecper/ and Shaw Office Supplies of Lumberton contributed to the pacesetter phase of the campaign, said R D Locklear. president of the Pembroke Area Chamber of Commerce. Architect Mike Clark of Native American Design Services of Pembroke is providing design services without charge. Locklear said Katrina Locklear of Locklear and Son Funeral Home is leading the design committee, and Howington of Shaw Office Supplies is leading the fund-raising committee For information about the park, please call the Town of Pembroke at (910) 521-0647. Support and SelfHelp Groups to meet The Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group meets the first Thursday of each month at 6pm. livthe Rehabilitation Services area of the Southeastern Life-style Center. 4895 Fayetteville Rd This group is intended to support those w ho have experienced the effects of life altering brain injury Their friends and family members are welcome. Meetings are facilitated by a certified brain injury specialist. Call (910)618-5606 ext. 229 fro more information Meetings scheduled for Tuesdays. July 6. 13. 20 and 27; Thursday. July 1. 8. 15.22. and 29 and Fridays. July 2.9.16.23. and 30 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a self-ltelp group for recov ering alcoholics. meets Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 p.m. and Thursdays at 6 p.m. at Carolina Manor/Recovery Alternatives. 1100 Pine Run Dr. Call 738-1191 for more information Meetings scheduled for Tuesdays. July 6. 13.20 and 27; and Thursdays. July 1,8.15.22 and 29. A I-Anon, a weekly support group for family members of alcoholics, meets on Tuesdays at 8 p m and Thursdays at 6 p.m at Carolina Manor/Recovery/Alternatives. 1100 Pine Run Dr. Call 738-1191 for more information Prepared Childbirth classes will be offered on Monday evenings beginning July 5 from 6.30 p m. until 9:30 p.m. in Community Education Room II at Southeastern Regional Medical Center The five weekly classes are taught by registered nurses and cover these topics: fetal development, pregnancy, labor and delivery, relaxation and breathing techniques, and postpartum period An additional class. Infant Care and Brcast-Fecding. on Mpnday. August 9 >s free to persons registered for this scries; cost is $10 for those not registered The cost for the entire scries is $50 per couple: Medicaid is accepted Adv ance registration is required. Expectant mothers who are due to deliver afrcr August 9 and before October 8 can register now by calling 671 - 5011 Meetings scheduled for July 5. 12. 19 and 26 Narcotics Anonymous (NA). a self-help group for people recovering from drug addiction, meets Mondays at 8 p.m. at Carolina Manor/ Recovery/Alternatives. 110 Pine Run Drive For more information call 738-1191 Next Meeting: July 6 A support group for the family and friends of the mentally ill meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm. in Community Education Room 1 at Southeastern Regional Medical Center The purpose of this group is to share stories and provide support Treatment approaches and sources of public assistance will be discussed, with experts. Call (910) 7)9-4530 for more information. Next Meeting: July 8 Families, caregivers and friends ofpersons with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders are invited to attend a support group which meets the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. in the dining room of WoodHavcn Nursing and Alzheimer's Care Center. 1150 Pine Run Dr. Lumbcrlon. No registration is required for these free meetings For more information, call 671-5703. Next Meeting: July 13 Super Lungs, a support group for persons with breathing problems or lung disorders and their family members, meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 5 p m. in the Assembly Room at Southeastern Regional Medical Center. Call 738-5403 for more information Park supporters-From left: Kevin Branch of Progressive State Bank; R.D. Locklear; County Commissioner Noah Woods; Larry Brooks, Chamber of Commerce volunteer; Pembroke Tonrt Councilman Greg Cummings; Buddy Bell, volunteer; Councilman Larry McNeil; Town Manager MdDuffie Cummings; Spencer Howington of Shaw Office Supplies and Mayor Milton Hunt. Poetry contest for Pembroke area residents OW1NGS MILLS, MI) (USA) - The International Library of Poetryhas announced that $58,000.00 in prizes will be awarded this year in the Internationa] Open Poetry Contest Poets front the Pembroke area, particularly beginners arc welcome to try to win their share of over 250 prizes. The deadline for the contest is September 30.2004. The contest is open to every one and entry is FREE. "Any poet, whether previously published or not. can be a winner." stated Christina Baylon. Contest Director "When people learn about our free poetry contest, they suddenly realize that their own poetic works of art can win cash prizes, as well as gain national recognition." continued Bay lon To enter, send ONE original poein. any subject and any style to: The International Library of Poetry. Suite 19920. 1 Poetry Plaza. Owings Mills. MD 21117- The poem should be 20 lines or less, and the poet 's name and address should appear on the top of the page. Entries must be postmarked or sent via the Internet by September 30. 2004. You may also enter online at vvw-w.poctry.com The International Library of Poetry, founded in 1982. is the largest poetry organization in the world Along the Robeson Trail by Dr., Stan Knick, Director, UNCP's Native American Resource Center |Author's Note: This is the first of a two-part series about Robeson County history. | This is a tale of two histories ~ still connected after all these years. Some people living in the modern Lumbce community don't seem to acknowledge that they arc connected to their ancient Indian past. They know their recent past as a community -- a recent past which is rich in history, people and ways of doing things ? but a recent past which seems to extend no farther back in time than the history of the United States. When they talk about traditional Indian culture, they seem to be thinking of it as something that lives somewhere else, somewhere far away, often "out west." A few even talk about the "real Indians" who live in those far-away places. As part of this recent version of history, there is an idea about connections to the "Cost Colony" of the 1580s. But mostly there are family histories which extend back to the 1800s. In some cases this history extends back as far as the 1700s. It is a history of log cabins and tobacco barns, of working in the fields and going to church. It is a wonderful history full of good memories - of ciders telling stories in the evening; of favorite uncles and grandmothers; of hog-killing and sausage-making on cold winter days; of chicken bogs and lye soap and long rows and short rows; of the growth of an Indian school that became a university; of the pride in a community and a close relationship to the land and river. It is also a history with more than its share of bad memories racial prejudice and discrimination; doctors who wouldn't give the same proper care to everyone; politicians who only came around at election time; separate seating in movie houses and separate water fountains. But for all its good and bad memories, it is still a relatively recent history. Some people living in the modern Native American community say: "We didn't have powwows; we didn't dance like that, or believe that way, or wear feathers in our hair." And they arc right, in the sense of that recent version of history. Many Native people alive today were not raised with "Indian dancing" or "drumming" or the other externallv-visibic elements of traditional Indian culture. Hut apparently there was some "dancing" and "drumming" and such going on all along. We know this from traditions passed down in a few families, and from photographs taken in the 1920s and 30s of local people gathered at the "Siouan l-odge" and the "Rcdmcn's Ixxlge." The world of the l.umbec did not begin in the 1580s when John While lost his colony. It did not begin when the first white settlements came to Robeson County in the mid1700s. It did not begin when Indians were "discovered" living along the banks of the l.umbec River, any more than it began when Columbus stumbled ashore in what he thought was India (but which turned out to be the Caribbean Islands, densely populated with Tafno and Carib and Arawak people). The history of the Native American community is really much older than that. Somehow ihc ancient history of the people got submerged in the lives of many families. In the years following the "Indian Wars" in the Eastern Carolinas (1650 1718). as the remnants of Indian Nations came together and formed new communities for survival, it was no doubt easier to submerge some of that ancient history -just not to talk about it. People from three different Indian language families (Siouan, Iroquoian and Algonkian) found themselves living together here along the l.umbcc River in what came to be known as "the Settlement." Just getting along with new neighbors probably required a certain amount of submersion of some of the old ways, so(nc of the old history . By the time of the American Revolution (1770s), many Indian people in eastern North Carolina were Irving a life largely indistinguishable from their non-Indian neighbors, if you only looked at the surface of things. They dressed in European-style clothes when they could get them, and which they learned to make for themselves. They used farm animals like oxen and mules for.tilling the soil, spoke English almost entirely, believed in the Christian God. Some of the Indian men went to war on the American side against the British, helping to found the new United States of America. [Part 2: next week) 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 web address is www.uncp.edu/nativemuseum). I * Public Forum planned for Commissioner District 4 Robeson County Commissioner for District 4. Mr Noah Woods, will hold a Public Forum at Wakulla Community Building located on Oxendine School Road. Maxton on Julv 8th at 7:00 PM Madie Rue Locklear American Indian Mothers honor outstanding citizens American Indian Mothers. Inc. (AIMIO recently honored several people. They held their annual banquet at the Chavis Center on the UNCP campus.. Educators honored included Aggie Decse. retired Guidance Counselor, and Dr. Linda Oxendine, Chairman. Department of American Indian Students at UNCP. Madie Rac Lockcar received the Public Sen-ice Award. She is Supervisor of the Red Springs Neighborhood Sen-ice Center. Four County Community Services. Inc. Deceased American Indian mothers honored included Evelyn Hunt, former employee of RCC; Rev. Pearl McGirt; and Mrs. Vera Lee Hammonds. Robeson County Register of Deeds Vicki Locklear was presented the Government Award. Mrs. Senora Lynch received the Cultural Awareness Award. She is a member of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe Book Dedication Planned Please join us for the dedication of the book written by Mary B. Hunt on Miss Anna Mae Locklcar on Sunday, July 4th at the Burnt Swamp Baptist Building at 4 p.m. The book " From the Cotton Fields to Mission Fields: the Life and Times of Miss Anna Mae Locklear" willh. on sale for the price of $5.00 Book Singing and Sale A book signing and sale will be held July 3. immediately after the parade at UNC Pembroke between Old Main and the Library. Arvis Locklcar Boughinan and Lorctta O Oxcndinc will be there to sign and sale copies of their new book 'Herbal Remedies of the Lumbce Indians " Don't miss this exciting event l. ! The Carolina Indian Voice PO box 1075 Pembroke, NC 28372 Phone: 910-521-2826 : Have a Safe and Happy Lumbee Homecoming
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