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8 <br />WHEREAS, after being attacked by Bacon's militia, the Occaneechi were <br />forced south and settled along the Eno River near present day Hillsborough, <br />North Carolina, and <br />WHEREAS, in 1713, the colony of Virginia and Great Britain signed a treaty <br />of peace with the Yesah and the Occaneechi returned to Virginia where they <br />were joined by their cousins the Saponi, Tutelo, Stuckanocks, and <br />Meiponsky, and <br />WHEREAS, all the tribes joined together and adopted the name of the Saponi <br />and were thereafter known as the Saponi Nation, and <br />WHEREAS, by the mid 1700's the tribe had resettled in what is now <br />Greensville, Brunswick, Mecklenburg and Northampton counties on the <br />Virginia/North Caroilna border, and <br />WHEREAS, they stayed there until the 1780's when in response to increasing <br />pressure from neighboring whites, the community began moving back to the <br />area near the Eno River where they had once lived, settling in the <br />northeast section of Alamance County and adjoining Orange County and <br />WHEREAS, since that time, some of the people moved to Ohio and Indiana but <br />the bulk of the Saponi people remained in "Little Texas" forming an <br />independent Indian community which was based on small scale farming, and <br />WHEREAS, the Saponi people formally reorganized in 1984 as the Eno- <br />Occaneechi Indian Association, Inc. with a Tribal Board of Directors which <br />represents the tribe at the local, state and national level and which deals <br />with problems facing the community, and <br />WHEREAS, in February of 1995, the Tribal Board of Directors voted to amend <br />the name of the tribe to the OCCANEECHI BAND OF THE SAPONI NATION <br />to more accurately reflect the ancestry of the tribe. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS does hereby <br />recognize the OCCANEECHI BAND OF THE SAF'ONI NATION as a Native American <br />tribe indigenous to Orange County and <br />FURTHERMORE, THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS does hereby support <br />the OCCANEECHI BAND OF THE SAF'ONI NATION in their request for State and <br />Federal recognition. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />B. REPORT ON VOLUNTEER FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN <br />Executive Director of the Volunteer Families for Children Juanita Clemmons explained <br />that the Volunteer Families for Children organization recruits, trains and licenses volunteers who <br />then make their homes available on an emergency basis to children and teenagers who do not fit <br />other programs' guidelines and thus have nowhere else to go. This is the only organization which <br />does this on an emergency basis. They receive funding from the Department of Social Services and <br />CBA. She asked that the County Commissioners consider an allocation of $15,000 to help pay for a <br />full-time Social Work Coordinator. <br />John Link suggested and the Board referred this request to the administration to review <br />this request and bring back to the Commissioners a recommendation. Commissioner Crowther <br />suggested that the Human Services Advisory Commission also review this request. <br />C. ORANGE COUNTY SMALL BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM <br />The Board received a proposal to develop an Orange County Small Business Loan <br />Program. A verbal agreement has been reached with the bankers to participate in a 3-year, one half <br />million dollar loan pool. This program would provide market-rate loans to local small businesses. <br />The banks would provide all initial capital at cost. The County would manage the program and <br />provide a 30 % loan loss reserve. <br />