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By MELOD2E ALVE5
rT") EING an Indian student at UNC means feeling left out of many
jj social and cultural events, adjusting to someone else's way of
life and facing the danger of losing one's identity.
Indian students find it hard to come from isolated small towns
where they take pride in their heritage to Chapel Hill where their
identity is ignored.
Pride in one's heritage is what the Carolina Indian Circle is all
about. Although there were but a handful of Indian students on
campus during the mid 1970s, when the circle was formed, the need
for the group was strong.
"The Carolina Indian Circle . started out mainly as a social
organization," said Joey Bell, present chief of the Circle. "It was a
place where all of the Indian students could get together. It let others
(Indian students) know that there were more of them here."
The Circle was started in 1975, Bell said.- At the time, there were
See INDIANS on page 4
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