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Time of India
05-05-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
JK Tyre conducts Indian Racing Festival across five North-East cities: Details
JK Tyre conducts Indian Racing Festival across five North-East cities. The Indian Racing Festival, powered by JK Tyre, was conducted across the North-East between April 12 and 22. The multi-city tour, which covered Kohima, Aizawl, Shillong, Guwahati, and Gangtok, drew thousands of spectators and enthusiasts, cementing the region's place on India's racing map. JK Tyre Indian Racing Festival: As it happened In Kohima, the tour opened at the 4th NAP Battalion Ground in collaboration with the Nagaland Adventure & Motor Sports Association (NAMSA). For the first time in the state, Formula 4 and Indian Racing League cars were showcased. The next stop was Aizawl, where drift shows performed alongside the Cheraw bamboo dance became a crowd favourite. The event went on with stunt performances despite rain. Shillong followed, where JK Tyre teamed up with the Assam Rifles and the Meghalaya Motorsport Society. Held at the DGAR Cantonment, the event featured karting, drifting and stunt performances. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Jakarta Raya: AI guru Andrew Ng recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life Aroun... Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo Mercedes-Benz EQA 250 Long-term Review: Things to know before Buying | TOI Auto At IIT Guwahati, the focus shifted slightly towards education and innovation. The event showcased the intersection of motorsport and engineering. Lastly, the finale took place in Gangtok, Sikkim, against the backdrop of the Himalayas. The event coincided with Sikkim's 50th Statehood anniversary. One of the highlights was the ceremonial flag-off of the five-day JK Tyre Mountain Rush Rally, the state's first TSD (Time-Speed-Distance) car rally. The closing event at Burtuk Helipad was attended by local dignitaries, motorsport personalities, and spectators. Throughout the tour, JK Tyre showcased its Levitas Ultra range while engaging deeply with local communities. Stay tuned to TOI Auto for latest updates on the automotive sector and do follow us on our social media handles on Facebook, Instagram and X. Discover everything about the automotive world at Times of India .
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Brockport softball star tops Section V Best
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Hannah Carpenter of Brockport softball earned the top spot in this week's Section V Best after a stellar performance at the plate on Thursday. The junior went 4-4 with seven RBIs and three home runs against Cheraw of South Carolina as the Blue Devils spent their week at a tournament in Myrtle Beach. Carpenter also earned the win on the mound, racking up four strikeouts. Rounding out this week's list are Teagan Finger of Penn Yan lacrosse, Caralynn Orlando of Sutherland softball, Leith Steele of Fairport track and field and Jack Niggli of Irondequoit baseball. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Voice of America
22-02-2025
- Politics
- Voice of America
Native American news roundup Feb. 16 – 22, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump wants Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to come up with a plan to grant the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina what he calls 'long overdue' federal recognition, fulfilling a campaign promise he made last September. Federal recognition acknowledges a tribe's historic existence and its modern status as a 'nation within a nation' entitled to govern itself and receive federal benefits, including health care, housing and education. Historically, tribes were recognized through treaties or laws or presidential orders or court decisions. In 1978, the Department of the Interior standardized those procedures, allowing recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Congress or a federal court ruling. Those standards require tribes to demonstrate continuous political autonomy since the 19th century, and members must document descendance from historical tribe members. The process is time-consuming and expensive, often requiring assistance from historians, genealogists and attorneys. Historic records, if they ever existed, may be lost or destroyed. The 1978 rules, updated in 1994, also state that tribes previously denied cannot reapply. 'Gray eyes' Over time, the Lumbee have been linked to several historic tribes, including the Cheraw, Tuscarora and even Siouan tribes. 'One tribal name or a single cultural origin is insufficient to explain Lumbee history, because Lumbee ancestors belonged to many of the dozens of nations that lived in a 44,000-square-mile territory,' writes Lumbee historian Malinda Maynor Lowery. 'The names of these diverse communities varied depending on where the people lived and on what Europeans wrote down about them.' In 1584, English explorer Arthur Barlowe noted that some Indian children on Roanoke Island had 'very fine auburn and chestnut coloured hair.' Three years later, England established a small colony on the island. The governor left for England to gather supplies. When he returned, no one was there. There were two clues: the word "CROATOAN" carved into a fence post and "CRO" on a tree. This gave rise to the theory that they had been taken in by Croatan Indians. In the early 1700s, Hatteras Indians at Roanoke, as the Croatans were now called, told English explorer John Lawson that they descended from those vanished settlers. They also had 'gray eyes,' which Lawson believed confirmed their mixed heritage. 'They tell us, that several of their ancestors were white people, and could talk in a book [read], as we do, the truth of which is confirmed by gray eyes being found frequently amongst these Indians, and no others,' Lawson wrote. Enduring names The 1790 federal Census recorded family names found among the Lumbee today and classified them as 'all other free persons.' In 1835, North Carolina banned voting in state elections for anyone who had a Black, mixed-race or biracial ancestor within the past four generations, and the state amended its constitution to segregate Black and white children into separate public schools. 'As the lines between 'white' and 'colored' hardened in North Carolina … Indians resolved that non-Indians must recognize their distinct identity,' Lowery wrote. In 1885, North Carolina recognized the Lumbee as 'Croatan' Indians and created separate schools for them. Shortly after, 54 members identifying themselves as Croatan Indians and 'remnants' of the lost colony petitioned Congress for aid to educate more than 1,100 of the tribe's children. The Indian Affairs commissioner turned them down, saying he could barely afford to support the tribes already recognized, let alone the Croatans. The tribe renamed itself 'Lumbee,' after the nearby Lumber River, in 1952. In 1956, Congress passed Public Law 570, acknowledging the tribe as a mix of colonial and coastal-Indian blood but denying them federal benefits. In the 1990s, the Interior Department again rejected the Lumbee's petition, citing insufficient proof of cultural, political or genealogical ties to a specific historic tribe. Despite failed bills, the House passed the Lumbee Fairness Act in December 2024, which, if approved by the Senate, would grant federal recognition and benefits. The Interior Department released an update to the acknowledgment process, allowing certain tribes that were previously denied the opportunity to reapply for recognition. That was set to take effect this week but has been postponed to March 21. Congress 'not equipped' North Carolina's federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) has long opposed Lumbee recognition. 'The Lumbee cannot even specify which historical tribe they descend from, and recent research has underscored the dangers of legislative recognition without proper verification,' EBCI principal chief Michell Hicks said in a December 2024 statement. 'Allowing this bill [the Lumbee Fairness Act] to pass would harm tribal nations across the country by creating a shortcut to recognition that diminishes the sacrifices of tribes who have fought for years to protect their identity.' Former EBCI chief Richard Sneed told VOA in 2022, 'Congress is not equipped to do the necessary research to determine whether or not a group is a historic tribe or not. The process was created for that purpose.' In an emailed statement, Lumbee tribal chairman John L. Lowery expressed cautious optimism that the Lumbee Fairness Act would pass. 'Our critics are sad individuals who use racist propaganda to discredit us while ignoring the struggles of other minorities in America,' he told VOA. 'As Indigenous people, we are the minority of the minority here in the United States, and our critics are trying to erase the memories of our ancestors, and we will not let that happen!' Fifty-six thousand people identified as Lumbee in the 2020 U.S. Census. If recognized, they would be the largest acknowledged tribe east of the Mississippi River.
Voice of America
15-02-2025
- Politics
- Voice of America
Trump backs Lumbee Tribe's long-standing quest for federal recognition
U.S. President Donald Trump wants Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to come up with a plan to grant the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina what he calls 'long overdue' federal recognition, fulfilling a campaign promise he made last September. Federal recognition acknowledges a tribe's historic existence and its modern status as a 'nation within a nation' entitled to govern itself and receive federal benefits, including health care, housing and education. Historically, tribes were recognized through treaties or laws or presidential orders or court decisions. In 1978, the Department of the Interior standardized those procedures, allowing recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Congress or a federal court ruling. Those standards require tribes to demonstrate continuous political autonomy since the 19th century, and members must document descendance from historical tribe members. The process is time-consuming and expensive, often requiring assistance from historians, genealogists and attorneys. Historic records, if they ever existed, may be lost or destroyed. The 1978 rules, updated in 1994, also state that tribes previously denied cannot reapply. 'Gray eyes' Over time, the Lumbee have been linked to several historic tribes, including the Cheraw, Tuscarora and even Siouan tribes. 'One tribal name or a single cultural origin is insufficient to explain Lumbee history, because Lumbee ancestors belonged to many of the dozens of nations that lived in a 44,000-square-mile territory,' writes Lumbee historian Malinda Maynor Lowery. 'The names of these diverse communities varied depending on where the people lived and on what Europeans wrote down about them.' In 1584, English explorer Arthur Barlowe noted that some Indian children on Roanoke Island had 'very fine auburn and chestnut coloured hair.' Three years later, England established a small colony on the island. The governor left for England to gather supplies. When he returned, no one was there. There were two clues: the word "CROATOAN" carved into a fence post and "CRO" on a tree. This gave rise to the theory that they had been taken in by Croatan Indians. In the early 1700s, Hatteras Indians at Roanoke, as the Croatans were now called, told English explorer John Lawson that they descended from those vanished settlers. They also had 'gray eyes,' which Lawson believed confirmed their mixed heritage. 'They tell us, that several of their ancestors were white people, and could talk in a book [read], as we do, the truth of which is confirmed by gray eyes being found frequently amongst these Indians, and no others,' Lawson wrote. Enduring names The 1790 federal Census recorded family names found among the Lumbee today and classified them as 'all other free persons.' In 1835, North Carolina banned voting in state elections for anyone who had a Black, mixed-race or biracial ancestor within the past four generations, and the state amended its constitution to segregate Black and white children into separate public schools. 'As the lines between 'white' and 'colored' hardened in North Carolina … Indians resolved that non-Indians must recognize their distinct identity,' Lowery wrote. In 1885, North Carolina recognized the Lumbee as 'Croatan' Indians and created separate schools for them. Shortly after, 54 members identifying themselves as Croatan Indians and 'remnants' of the lost colony petitioned Congress for aid to educate more than 1,100 of the tribe's children. The Indian Affairs commissioner turned them down, saying he could barely afford to support the tribes already recognized, let alone the Croatans. The tribe renamed itself 'Lumbee,' after the nearby Lumber River, in 1952. In 1956, Congress passed Public Law 570, acknowledging the tribe as a mix of colonial and coastal-Indian blood but denying them federal benefits. In the 1990s, the Interior Department again rejected the Lumbee's petition, citing insufficient proof of cultural, political or genealogical ties to a specific historic tribe. Despite failed bills, the House passed the Lumbee Fairness Act in December 2024, which, if approved by the Senate, would grant federal recognition and benefits. The Interior Department released an update to the acknowledgment process, allowing certain tribes that were previously denied the opportunity to reapply for recognition. That was set to take effect this week but has been postponed to March 21. Congress 'not equipped' North Carolina's federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) has long opposed Lumbee recognition. 'The Lumbee cannot even specify which historical tribe they descend from, and recent research has underscored the dangers of legislative recognition without proper verification,' EBCI principal chief Michell Hicks said in a December 2024 statement. 'Allowing this bill [the Lumbee Fairness Act] to pass would harm tribal nations across the country by creating a shortcut to recognition that diminishes the sacrifices of tribes who have fought for years to protect their identity.' Former EBCI chief Richard Sneed told VOA in 2022, 'Congress is not equipped to do the necessary research to determine whether or not a group is a historic tribe or not. The process was created for that purpose.' In an emailed statement, Lumbee tribal chairman John L. Lowery expressed cautious optimism that the Lumbee Fairness Act would pass. 'Our critics are sad individuals who use racist propaganda to discredit us while ignoring the struggles of other minorities in America,' he told VOA. 'As Indigenous people, we are the minority of the minority here in the United States, and our critics are trying to erase the memories of our ancestors, and we will not let that happen!' Fifty-six thousand people identified as Lumbee in the 2020 U.S. Census. If recognized, they would be the largest acknowledged tribe east of the Mississippi River.
