Comments by InteriorGirl
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Posted on August 24 at 10:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I have to say thanks, these posts have gotten much better than the crap a few days ago. It seems Natives can't do it right, either we're living off the government, or damned for having a new idea. Whatever these nutrient/vitamin-deprived bashers have stated at first, I'm thankful for the others who are looking beyond the past and on toward the future. Hopefully we can all live together without hate. We all breathe, try hard to live right, and make the world a better place. Is a buffalo farm really so wrong??
Posted on August 21 at 8:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Thanks, Sierra_Jane. I just can't believe that in 2008 that I live among these attitudes.
Posted on August 20 at 1:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Again, I'm very sorry to hear all the negativity all because some Natives decided to express an opinion; watch out, here's another with her own. While I definitely do not support Obama, I just hope that non-Natives who are so obviously uneducated and scared scatless to really, really get to know our culture and ways, would man up and befriend a Nate. We're not all on welfare or standing on 2 street. We work, pay our bills, raise children, and guess what? We have feelings, so be kind. Your blazing ignorance takes full advantage of this forum and I laugh daily, with wry sadness that you really go through life with that attitude. I will continue to be a kind person; if you're stuck roadside, I will still pick you up, give you a lift, whatever, but I refuse to bow to what you consider my 'identity.' I am a proud Indian, nothing you say will demean me or how far my people have come despite the circumstances. I don't live in the past either; I stand in the present, watch my culture change, look to the future, and hope my children will succeed in a Western society that neither respects my heritage, nor supports it. My 4th grader was told by another that he 'never wants to be a Native.' I reminded my son how proud he ought to be regardless of who vomits our 'identity' for us. Ginger Kennedy Placeres
Posted on July 16 at 3:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This forum is really teaching me how misunderstood Native people are, according to LoadDrive 1, the girl isn't truthful. My dad, 55, tanned three hides a summer with his grandma the same way. What isn't true about the method?? I keep reading these forums but I get so discouraged. If Fairbanks doesn't understand or value the Native culture, we're screwed. Please correct me if I'm reading the comment wrong...
Posted on July 15 at 9:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
HybridAlaskan and WetWily will get their own one day: your blindness will carry you as far as you wish to go. For that, I'm sorry. What's even more sad is that you live here, that we may be in the same room or at the same store where I would share a smile or a laugh or be kind to you when truly, you don't deserve it. Your ways will lead you exactly down the path you deserve.
On Hartman case
Posted on July 11 at 10:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The people on this forum who are least compassionate toward the four haven't experienced life in brown skin and/or seen injustices to relatives and loved ones because of the law. I have. The more compassionate people in this forum are affected by the true reality of race in Alaska. Prejudice exists for Natives, those who don't know are comfortably sheltered from it. I see it more often than I care to and it hurts because I am raising a family here. My 4th grader was told by his peer that he was happy not to be Native just last year. We live in the same 'good' neighborhood. I still get up everyday, go to work, continue to be a good citizen, and love others for who they are, not the color of their skin. I pray protection and safety over the streets of Fairbanks and neighborhoods within and around Fairbanks.
Posted on July 8 at 3 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I hope the police department is feeling the pressure to improve. Especially when the car of non-Natives have been attacking lone Natives lately.
Posted on July 8 at 8:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)
SueD hit the nail on the head. Those of us who know Marvin and his family cannot breathe well after reading this series, it hurts significantly. As for Hartmann, of course we hurt too, I can't imagine what his mother is still going through. Stone: there is something terribly wrong when his mother gets him out of the state as quickly as possible and has never returned--I know her personally. If I had the opportunity to speak with her, I would, and I wouldn't be afraid to ask why she got him out of Fairbanks so quickly.
Posted on July 7 at 9:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Stone's mother whisked him out of state and has never been back since.
At least four people witnessed Marvin at the reception at the time of the attack.
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Posted on November 23 at 9:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree with "Mom" about active learning, I hope the Watershed Charter School gets approved for '09, I'd love for my child to learn from Fairbanks out--studying the outdoors as part of his everyday learning...it sounds very engaging.
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