Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

Members of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe of Southampton County, led by Chief Walt “Red Hawk” Brown, gave native presentations this spring at two schools in North Carolina — Conway Middle School and Gaston STEM Leadership Academy. A tribe news release noted that tribal members presented to more than 200 students at CMS who ranged from third to fifth graders, and at GSLA, there were about 90-plus students on hand. Brown issued a “thank you” to the following tribal members who danced at the two presentations in full native regalia: Bernard Wright, Teresa Preston, Annie Thomas, Brenda Taylor, Pat Redwood, Mary Francis Wilkerson, Beverly El and Ellis Wright. The tribe was presented a check for $2,000 as a stipend for the two presentations.