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 The Chairman of the Lumbee Tribe spoke greetings at the 6th Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference Thursday, April 8, 2010 at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke Annex Building.
“I first would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all,” said Tribal Chairman Purnell Swett, “It is my hope that through conferences such as this we can provide ourselves and our youth with a deep and full understanding of the story of our land.”
This is the first year the Southeast Indian Studies Conference has been on the UNC-P campus. It is also the only conference in the nation that is specific to Southeast Studies. “We are always happy to welcome scholars, researchers and community folks back on campus,” asserted Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Dr. Diane Jone(pictured right), “we are a growing institution and our 6,661 enrolled students attest to that compared to 3,062 just 10 short years ago.” After all introductory commentary Southern Sun, in honor of the institution and the land it is built upon, sang an honor song.
The two day conference included sessions on Reconceptualizing the Educational Pipeline: Implications for American Indian Faculty and Staff; Locating the Resistance & Survivance in the Cherokee Phoenix; The Formation of Choctaw Communities in Mississippi after 18; Six Commonly used Plants among the Lumbee Tribe, used for Cancer Prevention and Treatment and Local Currencies; Tribal Currencies: A Potential Tribal Economic System in North Carolina. The Conference was sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, Museum of the Native Resource Center and Office of Academic Affairs.
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Chairman Swett opens 6th Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference
