Lumbee Tribe Cords of Honor 04-24-2026

Added: 2026-04-28

[00:05:00]looks so beautiful. It's so special to have you here with us. You're at home and you're here with your people. So, feel at home and just take it all in and enjoy. At this time, I'd like to welcome the Lumbi Tribal Council to welcome you this evening. For District 1, we have Dollar Bill Oxenine.

[00:05:22]District two, Grayen Mitchell.

[00:05:26]District three, Harold Smith.

[00:05:29]District four, Jodie Bullard.

[00:05:31]District five, Carrington Lleair.

[00:05:35]District six, Larry Chavis.

[00:05:37]District seven, Rubilina Llear.

[00:05:41]District eight, Kathy Hunt. District nine, Johnny Bell. District 10, Bobby Emanuel. District 12, Chakawana Oxidine.

[00:05:52]District 13, Joe Daws, excuse me, Alex Baker, District 13.

[00:06:02]District 14, Homer Fields.

[00:06:06]District 15, Sharon Hunt.

[00:06:11]District 16, Nancy Lleair.

[00:06:15]District 17, Sandra Dial.

[00:06:19]District 18, Mary Lleier.

[00:06:23]District 19, Larry Souls.

[00:06:27]District 20, Rudy Lleair.

[00:06:31]and District 21, Eric Chavas. This is your Lumbi tribal council. Please welcome them.

[00:06:44]At this time, I'd like to welcome the honorable speaker, Alex Baker, who represents District 13, to welcome you.

[00:06:59]Good evening everyone.

[00:07:01]It is an honor to gather this evening as we celebrate the Lumby students who are graduating from academic programs tonight. Tonight is more than a ceremony. It is a reminder of the what hard work, sacrifice, faith, family, and community can produce.

[00:07:23]Each chord represents a journey.

[00:07:27]Late nights, early mornings, long drives, difficult classes, missed gatherings, quiet prayers, and moments when given up may have seemed easier than pressing forward.

[00:07:42]But you pressed forward.

[00:07:45]To our graduates, we are proud of you.

[00:07:48]You have earned this moment. You carry with you the strength of your family, the prayers of your elders, the love of your tribe, and the courage drawn from the land and the people who shaped you.

[00:08:01]You are the continuations of generations who endured, provided, taught, prayed, and believe that better days lie ahead.

[00:08:14]To the families, tonight is your celebration, too.

[00:08:20]Your sacrifice, encouragement, discipline, and love help make this achievement possible. No student arrives here alone.

[00:08:33]Every graduate stands with parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, teachers, mentors, and loved ones who poured something into them along the way. And to each student receiving an honor cord, wear it with pride. Let it remind you of who you are, where you come from, and what you are capable of becoming. We expect great things from you because we already see great things in you. We know your strength. We know your promise. And tonight is proof.

[00:09:17]Welcome. God bless you, your families, and God bless the Lumbi tribe of North Carolina.

[00:09:30]At this time, please rise for the presenting of the colors by Lumberton Senior High, JOTC.

[00:09:47]After the presentation, remain standing for our national anthem, which will be sang by Jayla Lleier.

[00:10:12]It's here.

[00:10:37]What so proudly we held at the twilight last gleaming whose broad stripes in bright through the perilous fight or the ramparts we've watched were so gallently streaming.

[00:11:12]And the rock hits red glare.

[00:11:17]The bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

[00:11:35]Oh, say does that star spangled ber yet for the land of the free and the home of the So brave.

[00:12:45]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:12:59]Hey yo, Hey.

[00:13:29]Hey. I Hey, I hey I Hey.

[00:13:49]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:14:10]away.

[00:14:13]Hey, hey, I Hey, I hey away. Hey.

[00:14:40]Hey. I Hey, I Hey, I Thank you. Lumberton High JOTC and Drowning Creek Drum Group. At this time, we'd like to re welcome Reverend Dalon Jerry for our blessing.

[00:15:57]Let me say what an honor it is to be in the midst of such successful people.

[00:16:06]Praise the Lord for that.

[00:16:09]I believe I'm in the midst of future lawyers and future doctors.

[00:16:17]You can't convince me that the sky's is the limit when people's been to outer space.

[00:16:23]I believe that we as a young generation are going to reach until we can't reach no more. And I believe we shall stand as a tree planted by the rivers of water.

[00:16:35]>> And we don't have to be moved. Amen.

[00:16:38]And so I want to give honor when honor is due to my great God for giving me this opportunity to advance the kingdom.

[00:16:47]And if you would you bow heads before our God. Heavenly Father, we thank you Jesus for your goodness, your grace, your mercy, Father, and that you have bestowed in our lives. God, we can look around and see you in the midst of every situation, the good and the bad. Father, I have learned to say that I found no fault in you. Father, you've been good, so good to me. And God, I just want to extol your name, God, as I bless the young generation, Lord. Father, we ask of you to lead them in each and every way that they go.

[00:17:23]Let us acknowledge you, Father. And as you order our steps, God, we believe that you're going to work through us and in us, Father, that the heathen may even see that you are God.

[00:17:36]So, Father, right now, as we pray and believe in faith, God, we ask you to move in the midst of our schools, in the midst of our colleges, Lord, in the midst of our homes. Father, let us welcome you back into the high places.

[00:17:50]Amen. where you are rightfully deserved.

[00:17:54]God, we love you. We honor you.

[00:18:00]May God bless you and keep you. And may his face shine upon you and give you grace, joy, love, and peace.

[00:18:10]May you be blessed coming in, and may you be blessed going out. Be blessed in the city. Be blessed in the field. I pray that God's blessings are bestowed in your life. so heavily that you can't help but to give God the glory. In Christ's name I do pray. Amen.

[00:18:28]>> Amen.

[00:18:31]>> Amen.

[00:18:33]>> Thank you, Reverend Jerry. He is the youth pastor at Cornerstone Church. At this time, we'd also like to welcome Reggie Brewer, who is our cultural youth coordinator coordinator for a smudging ceremony.

[00:18:56]I would like to acknowledge uh wo it is a word that means that you are somebody that you're worthy to be acknowledged.

[00:19:07]Wa remember that word. I'd like to thank Dalon for his prayer that he came up.

[00:19:15]He's our future and you're our future.

[00:19:19]And but we can't have a future if we didn't if we don't have a past.

[00:19:26]And I'm here to represent that past.

[00:19:30]And I'm going to light this sage. And we're going to give thanks to those elders that were here before. And when I say before, I'm saying before the Europeans came over. Before anyone came over, there was us. Our people were here. Our people were living with this land and taking care of this land.

[00:19:53]So what I would like right now is I would like for you to think about that that those people sacrificed their life through war, diseases, famine. And then when the newcome cameras came over, there was a lot of sacrifices then that they had to give up for us to be here.

[00:20:12]We had to assimilate and we learned to be educated. We learned to go to school.

[00:20:19]Our peoples pushed us to go to school.

[00:20:23]in our community and a lot of you know that our people really pushed us to go to school and to work hard. So we had work ethics and we were hard workers and we believed in God. We we always believed in God. That's not anything new to us. With that being said, I'm going to light this sage. I'm going to give thanks to the four directions and honor the creator in that way. the creation. And uh I want you to remember that you're part of this creation.

[00:20:57]You're a part of nature. God created us.

[00:21:01]And he created us that we would be a part of nature and that we would beautify creation. We're not a mistake. You're not a mistake.

[00:21:42]have to do with I would like to say to you, naywa, I love you. Remember that word. Don't ever forget that word. That is a word part of our community as a part of Robinson County. Naywa, I love you.

[00:22:47]Thank you, Mr. Reggie and John for that blessing. At this time, I'd like to talk with you about another graduate who's very much like you. He had a dream to be an aviator and a pilot. Today, the Lumbi Tribe of North Carolina is honored to announce and honor the first recipients of the Michael Olaf Pawson Endowed Scholarship.

[00:23:11]This endowment honors the life of Michael who was an aviator who touched lives of people all across the globe. He was born in Sweden.

[00:23:21]He was an aviator, a a historian, an enthusiast, as well as a great friend.

[00:23:28]He passed away in 2022.

[00:23:30]And today we welcome some of his friends who have traveled from all across the country to be here today for this special ceremony. After Michael passed, his friends followed his wishes and they looked across the nation for an American Indian tribe to give this gift to. And they gave it to the Lumbi tribe of North Carolina.

[00:24:02]The endowment is for $63,000 and they came to the Lumbi tribe through a story about Tom Oxendine, a Lumbi aviator and Lumbi hero. So, we are so honored today to have the trustees for the Michael Pollson endowment, Pat Red Path, Robert Beverly Red Path, Ron Redpath, Don Tri, and unable to attend today was Danny and Joanne Raffield and Sandra Harrison.

[00:24:48]Please, please come up at this time.

[00:24:52]They are going to come up to welcome the recipients.

[00:24:56]Do you want to come?

[00:24:59]You stand right here. Stand right there.

[00:25:03]And we have the first six recipients recently received a $5,000 scholarship.

[00:25:11]Those recipients are Payton Brooks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, majoring in exercise and sports science, District 21.

[00:25:22]Cutler Bryant, Campbell University, majoring in political science, District 6. All right, we're going to have Cutler come up and stand.

[00:25:38]Khalani Gaddy, Winston Salem University, Master of Occupational Therapy, District 9. Chloe Hammonds, NC State University, majoring in psychology and criminology, District 9.

[00:25:54]Isabelle Lleair, Arizona State University, attain she is obtaining a PhD in clinical psychology district 7.

[00:26:05]And Khloe Sanderson, George Washington University, Master's of Forensic Psychology, District 5.

[00:26:23]Thank you for having us bring them up tonight. We're so honored to have our special guest tonight and these recipients who they are just going to congratulate on this new this new scholarship for the Lumbi tribe.

[00:26:48]Now, these guests traveled from all across the country to be here for tonight. And so, we are so honored to have them. And this new opportunity for these students as well as you.

[00:27:04]Okay, we're going to take a photograph.

[00:27:34]Thank you again to all of our special guests and our recipients tonight on this special honor. And so as you graduates prepare for your next the ones that are going to college, the ones who are going to graduate school, remember this endowment. It's the Michael Pollson endowment which is within the Lumbi tribe now. So we're so honored. At this time I would like to introduce our speaker, tribal chairman John El Lowry. Please make him welcome.

[00:28:13]Good evening.

[00:28:16]>> I know it's Friday. Good evening.

[00:28:18]>> Good evening.

[00:28:20]>> I feel you. It's been a long week. So, I want to take a moment to call out my cousin who's sitting right down here in the front uh who is a legendary baseball player among the Lumbi people, Mr. and also a renowned worldrenowned artist, Mr. Jean Locker. Let's give Mr. Jean a round of applause.

[00:28:52]Thank you, Mr. Jean, for being here. And speaking of scholarships, uh Mr. Jean is actually um uh he's here for the week because uh we will be having our first annual Jean Locker uh scholarship golf tournament uh next Friday. And so uh absolutely.

[00:29:11]And so we appreciate Mr. Jean helping us to do what we're doing uh with with our youth. So thank you. Thank you my cousin. So if you're from the Mount Area community, you're kin to Jean Lalair. So just just telling y'all. So um anyway, also I just want to take a moment to uh to thank uh the Pollson uh family and friends. Thank y'all so much for blessing us uh with with his memory. Um, thank you for entrusting us with the endowment. Uh, you all to give a tribe that you've never never, you know, been around and, uh, never heard of to say, "Hey, here goes here goes a whole lot of money to help your future students go to school." Um, it doesn't happen every day. And so, we are we're greatly blessed and greatly fortunate that Mr. Pollson lived the type of life that he lived. And as he left this world, he left, you know, uh, understanding that find a tribe that's based in education and help them to continue to help their students move forward in life. So once again, thank you. Thank y'all for entrusting us.

[00:30:22]Thank you to the students who have applied and who have received that. And, uh, guys, it's only going to grow larger as we move forward. So, thank you guys once again.

[00:30:40]I have the opportunity to introduce Dr. Brittany Hunt. And I was given some notes on the doctor that I'm going to read, but just in case you don't know, you can always go to Tik Tok and she's on there. She's she's always making hits. So, uh, uh, and, uh, if you don't know, now you know. So, go check her out on Tik Tok. So, and right before I I introduce her, I do want to take a moment just to say a couple words. Uh, I love to talk. Uh, in case you did not know, I always got in trouble in school for talking. And that's all right because some of us have to talk and some have to listen. And, uh, and I was one of the talkers. So, um, but right now I just want to take a moment to tell you all as graduates, uh, two things. Number one, you are the first class that's graduating as a fully, fairly recognized tribal class.

[00:31:54]And um that's a great feeling to say that. Uh I got chills all up and down my arm when I just said that. So uh uh you guys are living history.

[00:32:05]>> You're living history. Uh you are what our ancestors fought for. Um and um absolutely.

[00:32:17]And that's the second thing that I want to say and I have no doubt that Dr. Britney is going to get into this but we come from resilient people.

[00:32:27]Resilient meaning we are able to overcome and we have overcome a lot. So, as you move forward into your future, into the next steps of your life, never forget what all your ancestors went through in order for you to be here.

[00:32:44]>> And never forget that. But never forget that you haven't had to face what what our ancestors faced either. And that's a blessing, too. So, uh you stand on the shoulders of giants. You've stood on the shoulders of people who fought hard for you to be educated, for you to get an education when nobody else would give you an education. Our people fought to give us an education. And because of that, we are here tonight. Um, think about the first tribal school was created in 1887.

[00:33:14]1887 was the first tribal school. And here we are in 2026 celebrating what began in 1887.

[00:33:25]Dr. Brittany D. Hunt is a Lumbi scholar and assistant professor of education at Virginia Tech. I know that she's a proud graduate of Duke University and that's all right. We forgive her for that.

[00:33:40]The University of North Carolina at Chapa Hill which we're very excited about that and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her work centers around indigenous education, representation, and storytelling, which she is phenomenal. She is the co-creator of the Red Justice Project, a podcast focused on cases of missing and murdered indigenous people, and the author of the children's book, Who's Your People?

[00:34:10]Dr. Hunt also shares commentary, humor, and lumby culture with a broad audience on Tik Tok. Ladies and gentlemen, help me welcome Dr. Brittany Hunt.

[00:34:28]I was hoping y'all was going to beat the drum for me like y'all did for John. So, I appreciate it. Also, John, you stole my line. I was going to say y'all were the first Lumbi federally recognized high school graduates. It's okay. It's okay. I'm just so glad to be here tonight, y'all. It's a It's a wonderful night. And you know what? It's a good day to be a lum. Ain't that right?

[00:34:48]>> And I'm gonna be I'mma tell y'all something. We didn't have anything like this when I graduated. High school, college, all three times. We didn't have anything like this. So, us slums, we are moving up in the world. Y'all got a whole ceremony. The chairman's here. We got people from halfway across the world. We got a major league baseball player here. I mean, my god, who's going to walk in next?

[00:35:11]And I'm going to say my line again because I really did want to say it. I just realized y'all were the first Lumby federally recognized graduates. Yeah.

[00:35:26]you the birthday and I love to see it. I'm the birthday photographer. They don't know what I'm talking about up here, but y'all know my crowd. I want to start with something simple. Right now, a lot of you have a plan for your life. You know what you want to do. You know what you're good at. You know what feels natural to you.

[00:35:44]But there are also things that don't.

[00:35:47]things that feel uncomfortable or out of reach. Things you might look at and think I just don't have what it takes. I want to tell you a quick story about me that relates to that. When I was in college, I was terrified of public speaking.

[00:36:02]Not a little nervous, not a little jittery. If I ever had to present in front of class, my heart would be racing, handshaking, vision going blurry. Literally about to pass out.

[00:36:12]It's like the intro to that Eminem song.

[00:36:14]You know what I'm talking about? Hand shaking, vision. I don't know. It's mom spaghetti. Y'all know what I'm saying. I never spoke in class unless I was forced. If a professor asked a question, I suddenly became very interested in my notebook or my fingernails. If participation was a part of the grade, I already knew I was not getting an A in that. That was not my strength. Not then. And this wasn't just college. This was high school, college, my master's program, even on even during my PhD program, too. And I thought that's just who I was. Somebody who doesn't speak in class. somebody who's afraid to speak before a crowd. But now I stand in front of people and I talk for a living. I used to be scared to talk in class and now I am the class.

[00:36:57]I am what I like to call myself a whole professor.

[00:37:01]Not halfway, not almost a whole one. I am the birthday.

[00:37:06]The same Y'all look that up later. The same person who used to be scared to say her name out loud in class. I mean, just take a moment to think about how wild that is. I am in one body. I'm I am the student who was afraid to speak in class, and now I am the professor who runs the class. In high school, I had a little boyfriend tell me that I probably wasn't going to be able to get into the college that I ended up graduating from.

[00:37:30]A teacher told me the same thing.

[00:37:32]Guidance counselors, principles, people who were supposed to support and help me. Tried to keep me out of honors classes, then tried to keep me out of AP classes as well. My mama had to go out to the school every single year to petition for me to be in AP classes and honors classes, even though I made straight A's all throughout school. My mama's in the back. Stand up, mama.

[00:37:55]Y'all, she's going to get me for that later. I already know. I'm staying with her tonight.

[00:38:00]And the point is, I am not, you know, who these people tried to make me into.

[00:38:05]And you are not what anyone else decides you are either. And that's the part I want you all to hold on to. Just because something is not your strength today does not mean it won't be in the future.

[00:38:15]Just because something feels out of reach right now. Even if certain people are actively working against us to pl against you to place it out of reach does not mean it will always be. Now let's talk about something bigger than just you or me. Let's talk about us. As Lumby people, we know what it means to hear. Not yet.

[00:38:34]For years, for decades, for over a century, we fought for full federal recognition. We were told it wouldn't happen over and over again. Not yet. Or worse, not ever.

[00:38:47]Turn to your neighbor and say 575.

[00:38:52]Turn to the other one and say 575.

[00:38:57]And still we kept going, kept fighting, kept building, generation after generation. Not yet. And just a few months ago, it happened. Our not yet turned into a right now.

[00:39:11]>> Only one of my grandparents has lived to see federal recognition. But my son will not know a life where we are not recognized.

[00:39:19]Sometimes in life, we get the garden someone else planted. And sometimes we only get the seeds in hopes that our future generations will eat better than we did.

[00:39:31]In our time now, we are the seeds and the fruit. A seed planted today will not bloom tomorrow. It is a not yet. So hear me when I say what is true today may not be true tomorrow. What feels out of reach right now might just might just be just around the corner. Turn to your neighbor, say 575. Again, you know, I I work in Virginia and I work with the tribes there and they got recognized a few years before us. And I asked them, I said, "Do y'all do y'all print y'all's number? Like, do y'all have earrings that say like 573 or 572?"

[00:40:06]They were like, "No, that's so strange."

[00:40:08]And I was like, "Us Lumbies, we are we are a little bit peculiar because I have about seven pair of 575 earrings at this point." And I think three t-shirts and two flags and it's just going to keep going. So, and one of my students asked me, they said, "Is that your area code?"

[00:40:23]I said, "No, baby. Maybe one day it'll be though.

[00:40:29]might as well be 575.

[00:40:31]So hear me when I say what is true today may not be true tomorrow. What feels out of reach right now might just be right around the corner. And like the great poet Gloria Hallelujah also known as the rapper Gllorilla said, "Every day the sun don't shine, but that's why I love tomorrow."

[00:40:48]So when someone asked you, and in the words of Lumby Tik Tok icon Christy Bullard, "Are you a professional? Are you a doctor?

[00:40:58]I want you to say, "Not yet. Not yet."

[00:41:01]But the seeds are planted. Not yet. But the soil is good. Not yet. But the roots are strong. Because your life is still in bloom, you are still becoming someone you haven't even met yet. So don't rush it. Don't limit it. And don't let one moment or one opinion or one person or one tribe out in the mountains, like John said, like John said, they can kiss my ring.

[00:41:29]Don't let any of those people decide who you are. Because if I had limited myself to who I used to be, I wouldn't be standing here speaking before you. And so, as you leave here today, be bold enough to grow, be brave enough to try, be willing to fail again and again. And when something doesn't come easy, don't say that's not me. Just say not yet.

[00:41:49]Congratulations, class of 2026. You haven't even met the best version of yourself yet. And today you the birthday. Thank you.

[00:42:13]I don't know if it's 575 or not.

[00:42:16]>> Um I doubt this has 575 on it. Uh but uh this is our gift to you. So thank you very much. Thank you for the words of encouragement. Thank you for being a uh a storyteller for our people and uh thank you for coming out of that shell that you once were in. So think about that. She she was afraid to speak and then she went to Duke University. you know, like that's as much as I pick on Duke, not everybody gets into Duke. So, uh, so that shyness and that lack of want to do public speaking did not keep you from going to one of the top universities, uh, in in this nation. So, congratulations on everything.

[00:42:53]>> I appreciate.

[00:43:04]All right, the time that we have been waiting for.

[00:43:08]We are bringing up our graduates. This will take just a couple moments.

[00:43:17]Thank you, Dr. Brittany, for all those wonderful laughs tonight.

[00:43:23]And I can say I knew her when she was in her mama's tummy cuz her mother and I worked together at Walmart.

[00:43:33]Yes. Yes. Yes. Long time ago.

[00:43:55]>> As our graduates are coming, we are so honored to have everybody come tonight.

[00:44:00]We have graduates that have flown in from all across the nation. We have graduates here from Arizona, um the northern part of the United States and just everywhere, which is a testament to the resilience of our Lumbi people. And when I see all of this, I think of my ancestors and UNCC Pinbroke.

[00:44:28]They'd be so proud.

[00:44:43]All right, we are welcoming up our first graduate, Jaden Lleair from Pernell Sweat High School.

[00:45:09]Please welcome Gloria Mareno, Hope County High, Jackson Jacobs, Pernell Sweat High school.

[00:45:28]James Bullard, pronounce what? High.

[00:45:42]Roger Lleair, Pernell Sweat High School.

[00:45:51]James Sweat, Perno Sweat High School.

[00:46:03]Melissia Hunt, Pernell Sweat High School.

[00:46:12]Jere Jeremiah Barnes Micah Cummings, Pernell Sweat High.

[00:46:45]Malaki Jones, Red Springs High.

[00:46:55]Alana Lleair, Red Springs High School.

[00:47:03]Kaden Lleair, Dylan Christian School.

[00:47:16]Ayana McMillan, Sanderson High School, Charles Jackson, Dylan Christian, Brian Townsen, UNCC Pimbroke.

[00:47:54]Logan Howington, Public Schools of Robinson County Early College.

[00:48:07]Joseph Jones, Capefir High.

[00:48:15]Deanna Rogers, Pernell Sweat High School.

[00:48:24]Caitlyn Hunt, Richmond Community College.

[00:48:36]Melody Hunt, Scotland High School.

[00:48:44]Ammani Wright, Lumberton Senior High.

[00:48:54]Annette Lowry, Lumberton Senior High.

[00:49:03]James Lucas, UNCC Pimbroke.

[00:49:11]Skyler Brewer, Western Guilford High.

[00:49:22]Caleb Karns, Lumberton High School.

[00:49:30]Ethan Oxen Ethan Oxendine, Hoke County High.

[00:49:40]Emma Jolliker, UNCC Pimbroke.

[00:49:49]Couture Lleair, UNCC Pimbroke.

[00:50:01]Gerald Lleair, Liberty University.

[00:50:11]Allison Lowry, Clayton High School.

[00:50:23]Dana Chavis, University of Arizona College of Law.

[00:50:29]Yik Achilles D's Pernell Sweat High School.

[00:50:50]Payton Harden, Lumberton High.

[00:50:57]Jaden Harden, Robinson Community College.

[00:51:06]Kiier Lleair, Pernoswood High.

[00:51:18]Kylin Hunt, Fairmont High.

[00:51:26]Ethan Scott, public schools of Robinson County Early College.

[00:51:36]Cristiana Wilkins, Pernell Sweat High.

[00:51:45]>> Jayla Jacobs, St. Paul's high Jacob Eroth South View.

[00:52:06]Sandra Hunt, Favville Tech Community College.

[00:52:16]Cameron McNeel, GCHS, Brilan Hunt, Cabrina Oxidine, Perno Sweat High.

[00:52:55]Brendan Lowry, Pernell Sweat High.

[00:53:04]Taylor Lowry, Pernell Sweat High.

[00:53:15]Nia O'Donnell, Perno Sweat High.

[00:53:25]Chloe Lleair, Fairmont High.

[00:53:36]Kirstston Lleair, Favville State University.

[00:53:44]Gabriella Lleair, Red Springs High.

[00:53:52]Elijah Lleair, Red Springs High.

[00:54:00]McKenzie Pennington, Fairmont High.

[00:54:08]Marley McKini, Early College.

[00:54:16]Madison Oxendine, Early College.

[00:54:23]Kevin Adams, Fairmont High.

[00:54:32]Sky Emanuel Pernell Sweat High.

[00:54:42]Haley Clark, Red Springs High.

[00:54:52]Jada Cummings, Red Springs High.

[00:55:12]Mera Hunt, Robinson Community College.

[00:55:22]Katherine Lleair, Robinson Community College.

[00:55:33]Amelia Ally, Early College.

[00:55:43]Hi Mayor Lleair, UNC Pimbroke.

[00:55:52]Sydney Jones, >> Lumberton Senior High.

[00:56:04]>> Embryo Chavis, pronounce what? High Leada Romero, St. Paul's High School.

[00:56:31]Summer Jones, Robinson Community College.

[00:56:44]Brighten Lleair, Pernell Sweat High School.

[00:56:52]Cody Cummings, Pernell Sweat High.

[00:57:00]Cheyenne Lleair, Lumberton High.

[00:57:12]Katana Lleair, Bladen Community College.

[00:57:20]Gerald Brown, UNC Pimbroke.

[00:57:29]>> That's my dog.

[00:57:32]>> Jenna Grace Nance, Grace Creek.

[00:57:42]Cadence Hampton, West Florence High.

[00:57:52]Ryland Jacobs, Parnell Sweat High School.

[00:58:01]Sierra Godwin, Pernell Sweat High School.

[00:58:12]Bailey Bryant, University of North Carolina at Pinbroke.

[00:58:22]Tacobe Hunt, University of North Carolina at Pimbroke.

[00:58:35]Michaela Hunt Hammonds, University of North Carolina at Pimbroke.

[00:58:49]Skyler Lesa, University of North Carolina at Pinbroke.

[00:59:03]Ashley Ransom, University of North Carolina at Pimbroke.

[00:59:12]Braden Woods, Pernell Sweat High School.

[00:59:21]Nicholas Strickland, St. Paul's High.

[00:59:31]Kinsley Norton's Scotland Early College High.

[00:59:43]Charel Sweat, University of North Carolina at Pimbroke.

[00:59:55]Asa Lleair, University of North Carolina at Pimro.

[01:00:08]Rachel Lleair, St. Paul's High.

[01:00:19]Cheyenne Lleair, St. Paul's High.

[01:00:28]Gracie Oxendine, Fairmont High.

[01:00:36]Maya Goodman, Fairmont.

[01:00:44]Dustin Bryan, Robinson Community College.

[01:00:54]Vashi White, University of North Carolina at Pimbroke.

[01:01:05]Chloe Cummings, Early College.

[01:01:14]William Rebels, St. Paul's High.

[01:01:22]Claudia Allen, Pernell Sweat High School, Ammyra, St. Paul's High.

[01:01:38]Excuse me. Amira Lleair, St. Paul's High.

[01:01:48]Aaliyah Richardson, Union High School.

[01:01:57]Azeriah Brunson, EE Smith High School.

[01:02:07]Christopher Hammonds, Lumberton High, Daley Miles, Fairmont High, Joe Laia Miles, Fairmont High, Braden Lleair, Pernell Sweat High School.

[01:02:52]Eli Peaveia, Lumberton High School.

[01:03:00]Lyndon Strickland, Pernell Sweat High.

[01:03:09]Joselyn Jacobs, Red Springs High School.

[01:03:16]Kinley McLuren, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

[01:03:28]Timothy Woods, Lumberton Senior High.

[01:03:38]Jameson Chavas, Lumberton Senior High.

[01:03:46]Payton Britt, Lumberton Senior High.

[01:03:57]Ellery Barton, Pernell Sweat High School.

[01:04:06]Aaliyah Connor, Pernell Sweat High School.

[01:04:13]Jasmine Oxendine, Lumberton Senior High.

[01:04:22]Ryland Maynor, St. Paul's High.

[01:04:30]Grayson Hunt, Pernell Sweat High.

[01:04:39]Kaden Richardson, Hope County High.

[01:04:47]Christian Jacobs, 71st High.

[01:04:55]Kirstston Scott, Pernell Sweat High.

[01:05:04]Aiden Llear, Pernell Sweat High.

[01:05:12]London Dial Perno Sweat High Micah Hunt Fairmont High Mila Lleier University of North Carolina at Pimbro.

[01:05:39]Jayn Hunt, Fairmont High.

[01:05:46]Jason Lowry, Public Schools of Robinson County Early College.

[01:05:55]Kyla Jones, Early College.

[01:06:03]Destiny Mitchell, North Carolina Cy North Carolina Cyber Academy.

[01:06:14]Danna Carter, Lumberton High School.

[01:06:23]Brayley Lleair, Parnell Sweat High School.

[01:06:31]Chloe Chavis, Parnell Sweat High.

[01:06:41]Abby Kate Daltry, Capefir High School.

[01:06:52]Sierra Bullard, the University of North Carolina at Pimroke.

[01:07:02]Aiden Lowry, Southeast Raleigh.

[01:07:12]Emiline Jacobs, Pernell Sweat High School.

[01:07:21]Whitney Oxenine, Robinson Community College.

[01:07:29]Chayla Lleair, Robinson Community College.

[01:07:37]Kansas Lleair, Hope County High.

[01:07:44]Caitlyn Oxen, Robinson Community College.

[01:07:52]Amy Thomas, the University of North Carolina at Pimbroke.

[01:08:00]Jenna Lleair, Pernell Sweat High School.

[01:08:10]Kaden Lleair, Pernell Sweat High School.

[01:08:23]Trendon Campbell, Fairmont High School.

[01:08:32]Faith Wilkins, Lumberton Senior High.

[01:08:41]Matteline Wilkins, the University of North Carolina at Pimbroke.

[01:08:49]Justin Lleair, UNCC Pimbroke.

[01:08:54]Excuse me. Justice Lleair, UNCC Pimbroke.

[01:09:01]Jenna Bird, Perno Sweat High, Thomas Lleier, Christ Cornerstone Academy.

[01:09:18]Nyla Chavis, Pernell Sweat High.

[01:09:26]Brianna Llear, Lumberton High School.

[01:09:33]Ava Bullard, Red Springs High.

[01:09:40]Logan Lleair, Fairmont High.

[01:09:45]Lake and Jacobs Early College.

[01:09:53]Mariah Leonard, Fairmont High, Addison Davis, Early College High School.

[01:10:17]Okay.

[01:10:21]Kylie had excuse me, Kylie Hallebertton, Lumberton Senior High.

[01:10:34]Christopher Chavis, Pernell Sweat High School, Unissa Mains, Sand Hills Community College.

[01:11:05]Ashley Brooks, Robinson Community College.

[01:11:14]Key Jacobs, University of North Carolina at Pimbroke.

[01:11:25]Nvea Oxendine, Robinson Community College.

[01:11:37]Seoia Lindsay, Bladen Community College, Georgia Rebels Jones, the University of North Carolina at Pimbro.

[01:12:07]Jonathan Nutting, Parnell Sweat High School.

[01:12:21]Alyssa Barnes, Pernell Sweat High School.

[01:12:34]Ashlin Lowry, the University of North Carolina at Pinbroke.

[01:12:52]Carla Lleier, the University of North Carolina at Pinbroke.

[01:13:04]Beatatric Oxen Robinson Community College, Alia Brewer, St. Paul's High Dynasty Chamus, Fairmont High.

[01:13:46]Cameron Lleair, the University of North Carolina at Pinbroke.

[01:13:57]Devin Jacobs, Pernell Sweat High School.

[01:14:06]Kiara Hunt, Grace Creek High School.

[01:14:15]Angela Lemons, San Hills Community College.

[01:14:27]Tracy Furrow, Sand Hills Community College.

[01:14:40]Kaden Oxen, Lumberton High School.

[01:14:50]Americus Jacobs, Robinson Community College.

[01:15:01]Ashton Sumpter, North Carolina State University.

[01:15:11]James Alvarez Hammonds, FSU and the University of North Carolina at Pinbroke.

[01:15:24]Also, Nicholas Oxen, the University of North Carolina at Pimbroke and FSU.

[01:15:49]It Monique White, the University of North Carolina at Pimbro.

[01:16:05]And our last graduate, Jamie Bullard, Robinson Community College, please. Let's give a round of applause for all of our Lumbi graduates. WOOHOO!

[01:16:41]Our ancestors would be so proud and I know you are so proud as well. Parents, please stand as we honor you for your dedication to these young people, these graduates.

[01:17:06]scholarship >> and she wasn't called up.

[01:17:16]>> And we also have a Paulson graduate that was graduating. Come on up, baby.

[01:17:25]>> Chloe.

[01:17:27]We also have one of our Pollson graduates who are graduating and this is Chloe Hammonds or CL or Sanderson.

[01:17:44]We also have one of our Paulson graduates who are graduating. This is Miss Chloe Sanderson, George Washington University, Masters of Forensic Psychology, District 5.

[01:18:05]Thank you. She was on stage, so she did not have a card. All right. We'd also like to take a moment to honor all of our special guests here in addition to Mr. Jean. Please thank you for coming out tonight from public schools of Robinson County, from Hope County, from Scotland County, as well as Cumberland County. We have educators, our school board members who are here tonight. Thank you so much. And our Indian representatives from the Indian Education Associations. Thank you so much for coming out as well tonight.

[01:18:39]>> President >> and President Singler from Robinson Community College. Thank you for coming out as well tonight.

[01:18:47]We are so proud of these graduates. It's just an honor to have them here tonight.

[01:18:53]Graduates, we know that you're preparing for another graduation. Take a moment to look at those cords. They're not just cords. They symbolize the colors of the medicine wheel within your Lumbi tribe logo. And they are sacred and they represent the sacredness in your life.

[01:19:12]At this time, we are going to have an honor song by Drowning Creek Drum Group to honor you. Please stand at this time.

[01:19:34]H we are high we are high we are high way your Way your way.

[01:20:23]Go.

[01:20:25]I ho.

[01:20:38]We are we are we are we ARE WE ARE we Hey yo.

[01:21:29]Oh hey.

[01:21:49]>> Thank you very much to John Creek Drum Group. Uh just want to Mr. Homer, you can come on. You can come on up. Uh once again, just thank you all for being here. Dr. Singler, thank you for allowing us to use this facility here at RCC. Thank you all for allowing us to have a wonderful event once again where we're we're able to honor our graduates.

[01:22:07]Uh this is a fantastic time for them, a very honored time for them. So, uh thank you for allowing us to have this Friday night to be with you and your families.

[01:22:15]At this time, Mr. Homemerfields will close us out with a word of prayer.

[01:22:18]Thank you all for being here.

[01:22:22]>> Shall we pray? Heavenly Father, as we come to you this evening, we're so thankful, Father, for each and every graduate. We thank you, Father, for their parents. We thank you, Father, that we're able just to come out and celebrate and honor them in their endeavors. Lord, we ask you, Lord, just to help them, Lord, as they continue through their whatever they doing. Lord, whether they go into the workforce or whether they go into further education, Father, we ask you, Lord, just to touch and lead them and guide them. Father, and we pray, Father, that they would look to you, Lord, as they go out their separate ways, Father. And Father, we ask you now to give us your traveling mercy and grace as we go our separate ways. In the worthy name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I do pray. Amen.

[01:23:16]As as everyone is leaving, we'd like to welcome up Fairmont High School, Lumberton High School, and Early College for photos. Also, don't forget to mark your calendar for our federal recognition celebration on May 16th.

[01:23:32]Tell your neighbors. We look forward to having you at the quad at the University of North Carolina, Pimbroke. Thank you and safe travels. I thought you were showing me something.