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you know there's a lot of things involved in making a pine needle basket
that people just don't understand.
My work focuses on the Lumbee people... culture, location, where we're from...
The Lumbee Tribe's name is something that's
been clouded in mystery, sort of, from the beginning. Real young,
we didn't have jobs I mean farm work - that was your job.
When it went overseas some of them cried... I just felt sorry for them.
In Robeson County there's not a lot of places to go and
look for a job so I was
feeling pretty stressed. Federal recognition -
it's acknowledgement by the United States of America that this group, this community
this Indian tribal nation
is real. The first thing they did
when they got the Baltimore was start a church. You've got to have church
in the community and you've got to have church with the
Indian people. Embedded
in a problem are elements of the solution.
My grades have changed. My attitude on life has changed.
It's been a motivating experience. We clean the bad stuff out of our lives.
[MUSIC]
You know it just brings life to the town like you wouldn't imagine
and our people deserve it.