The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, March 20, 19867
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By PHYLLIS A. FAIR
Staff Writer
Education is the key to the front
door of the reservation, Chief Robert
S. Youngdeer, of the eastern band
of Cherokee Indians, told about 40
people during a speech Tuesday.
"We want to get educated so that
we can tend to our own affairs. We
want to compete with the non
Indians," Youngdeer said.
. "Education is one of the keys to
our survival," he said. The Chero
kees now have a new school, funded
and operated by the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, after 17 years of
petitioning Congress.
The plight of the Cherokee Indian
has been a long and hard one,
Youngdeer said. They have had their
land taken away from them by the
white man, so the Indian had to be
moved west. Ex-President Andrew
Jackson turned his back on the
Cherokees when they asked him for
help in getting back their land,
Youngdeer said.
At the time when the Cherokee
came into contact they had territory
covering parts of eight states from
West Virginia to Tennessee.
In the past the Cherokees had to
obey the North Carolina laws, even
though they were not given the rights
of citizenship, he said. Now, though,
this is not the case.
"We have our own nation within
a nation," Youngdeer said. The state
of North Carolina has no jurisdica
tion over the Cherokees who live on
the reservation, but if they decide to
leave the reservation, they must obey
the laws, he said.
The reservation's government has
the right to impose taxes on the
Cherokees, Youngdeer said. They
have a 6 percent levy which helps
pay for the police, the fire, the
sanitation and the water and sewer
departments. .
"We don't pay any state taxes; we
pay federal taxes," he said. "All
major crimes are tried in federal
courts, which the FBI is in charge
of. We also perform our own divor
ces and marriages."
Another way that the reservation
gets revenue is through bingo games,
Youngdeer said. Between December
1982 and Feb. 14, 1986, the reser
vation grossed $35 million from the
bingo games, but the reservation was
able to keep only $1 million. This
was one of the reasons why Young
deer said he ran for office.
He said other factors came into
play that hurt the American Indians:
rum, gun powder, alcohol and
missionaries. Some missionaries
tried to take the Indian's land away
from him, he said.
wWe did have good missionaries
that didn't want to take our land,"
Youngdeer said. "They just wanted
to teach us right from wrong."
The missionaries weren't the only
ones or things who took away the
Indian's land, Youngdeer said. "Our
land was conquered by alcohol."
Indians can end the myth that all
Indians are drunkards through
education, he said. Education can
teach the young Indian child that
how he is portrayed is wrong.
"Education is the key to the front
door for the Indian," he said.
Youngdeer said that since the
1930s, the number of enrolled in the
Eastern band of Cherokees has
increased from 3,000 to 9,070. There
are 6,000 Cherokees who live on the
reservation; 573 are full blooded
Cherokees, he said.
Some Indians still have inferiority
complexes about being Indian, he
said. There have been people who
said other people were treating them
badly because they are Indian. In
some cases this is true and in others
it isn't, Youngdeer said.
"Unless you have lived on a
reservation, you don't know what it's
like to be an Indian," he said.
"I'm proud to be a Cherokee. I
want to see bur people get educated
and be able to sit in that chair at
the state capitol," Youngdeer said.
Youngdeer served 20 years of
active duty in the military and retired
as a first sergeant. He said one of
his career highlights as principal
chief has been to sit in council with
the Western Cherokee at Red Clay
State Historical Park in Tennessee.
This was the first time this had
happened since the Trail of Tears
almost 150 years ago, he said.
By SMITHSON MILLS
Staff Writer
A meeting of the Fraternity President's Association
failed to meet quorum due to a poor turnout of
fraternity presidents Tuesday night in Lenoir Hall. The
FPA is the legislative branch of the Inter-Fraternity
Council.
. IFC President Charles Shook, a junior from Fort
Myers, Florida, said six or seven fraternity presidents
showed up for the meeting. There are over twenty
fraternities in the IFC.
"It upset me that people didn't come to the meeting
who should have," said Shook. He said dates for the
meetings had been set last semester and that every
fraternity president should have known about them.
Alpha Tau Omega President Dunkin Coker, a senior
from Washington, D.C., said he had not been contacted
about the meeting and that no one in the IFC had
talked to him in the past month.
Chi Psi President Micheal Egues, a junior from
Dallas, Texas, said he knew the date of the meeting
but said he was not informed of its location. "I was
not contacted by Charles Shook and there was no
reminder placed in the Chi Psi mailbox in Steele
Building," said Egues.
Shook said the responsibility for contacting
fraternity presidents about meetings had been divided
up among the IFC officers. He said there was no set
standard for contacting the presidents, but that placing
information in fraternity mailboxes in Steele Building
was probably the best way.
Shook said that several issues were discussed at the
meeting even though there was not a quorum.
He said they had discussed the possibility of adopting
an "open rush" policy at UNC. "The national Inter
Fraternity Conference advocates an open rush system
wherebv fraternities have the abilitv to extend a bid
any time of the year," Shook said.
Currently, fraternities at UNC have a three-day
formal rush when some bids are given out. Under the
proposed system, there would be no formal rush period.
Shook said the proposal would probably be voted on
at the next meeting, scheduled for April 15.
Also Tuesday, the FPA discussed adopting guide
lines for cleaning up fraternity houses after parties,
especially in Fraternity Court during football season.
All fraternities should help clean up after court
parties on a rotating basis, because almost all
fraternities have members who attend the parties,
Shook said. ,
He said that all issues discussed at the meeting
Tuesday would have to be discussed at a meeting with
quorum before any decisions could be made. "It's hard
for us to communicate with fraternities when no one
shows up for the meetings," he said.
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Christopher C. Fordham
By NANCY HARRINGTON
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It has been six years since Chris
topher C. Fordham III was appointed
chancellor. And if you think the Board
of Trustees has been pleased with his
administration, then you're right.
The board gave Fordham a nod of
approval at its February meeting by
passing a resolution acknowledging his
dedication to the University.
"It's recognition for a very fine man,"
said board Chairman J. Clint Newton
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Fordham has been a successful
leader, Newton said. His accomplish
ments are many, but there are two that
exceed all others.
"Number one is his emphasis of
academic excellence, Newton said.
"(Number) two ... is the substantial
building programs that he's brought to
the University."
In recent rankings of research doc
toral programs and libraries, UNC was
ranked 1 8th in the nation.
The Hanes Art Center, the Dean E.
Smith Student Activities Center, the
Student Health Service Building and
Carmichael Dorm are few of the major
construction projects begun or com
pleted since Fordham took office.
Under Fordham's leadership, the
University has initiated a statewide
Math-Science Network. Since his
appointment in 1980, the University's
endowment has grown from almost
$38.5 million to approximately $115
million.
In other matters, the board recog
nized the achievements of Patricia
Wallace, during her term as student
body president and as an ex-officio
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