Reply #4: here's a native dude that don't like Uncle Ted... [View All]

this is from the letter section of the Anchorage Daily News



"Sen. Stevens downplays his role in the destruction of Alaska Natives

I take issue with Sen. Stevens' quotation appearing July 11, "I am saddened that the Daily News seeks to discredit the reputation I have worked for over the last 35 years" ("Daily News falls short on the facts concerning Native allotment").

I'd like to remind the senator of his fine contribution to the destruction of Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts as peoples. I personally witnessed in his office the finality of proposed language by the chief lobbyist for Western Oil and Gas Association, John Pickering, for incorporating the extinguishment clause of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of December 1971, without a hearing. This is a boiler-room amendment.

The monetary award to the Adams family in Barrow should be applicable to all allotees in a similar situation. Is this a private relief bill for the Adams family only? Furthermore, Sen. Stevens is currently a benefactor of a lease developed by his brother-in-law in a limited partnership company with Arctic Slope Regional Corp. wherein the corporation has obligations under this noncancelable operating lease for the facility.

Sen. Stevens, Sen. Henry M. Jackson, as well as Congressman Wayne Aspinall, have been anathema to the constitutionally protected rights of Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts of Alaska. So, who is sadder here, Senator? It is the descendents of Alaska Natives whom you have extinguished with your vote.

-- Charles Etok Edwardsen "

here is Charles' picture...he is an inupiat eskimo and a native leader...and he sounds pissed.