Wow Paul,
This is not much unlike what I witnessed in Northern Quebec East of the James Bay/Hudson bay area. The "residential schooling" and the fall out from it all as well as government built houses, and a similar host of other issues brought about a VERY notable similarity.
I'm going to ponder what you have shared, some more.
I really appreciate you having taken the time to convey your thoughts.
Scott,
I didn't mean to leave you or others with a partial view of the picture which after some pondering I could see my post doing. As to the big complex picture of the roughly dozen Alaska native peoples (depending on who is counting and naming them) the story of those that are leading normal healthy lives seldom if ever gets any play in the news or social conscience.
I know many trilingual people, fluent in English, Aleut and Russian. My neighbor graduated from Stanford law school and is a corporate CEO, and I know another attorney and CEO. I've worked with an engineer that graduated from MIT and another who received her doctorate from Stanford. Musicians, artists, priests, craftsmen, fishermen, whalers, electricians, heavy equipment operators, the sweetest little old ladies you'll ever meet, etc., more often than not just honest hard working decent folks.
