[Eska]

The real reason why there are no Afi-Amers in our community is because the Indians will run them out. About 25 years back, a local Indian girl graduated and moved to Fairbanks for employment. Pretty quick, she was living with this black guy, and within a year, he murdered her. The local Indian Family that she came from is pretty respectable, tough bunch actually. They went about nuts with grief and they said to everybody, no blacks ever coming here.

So, a couple years back, there was an Indian wedding. Another Native girl from different family who came from our village was bringing her Black Boyfriend to the wedding. This one Native Family who had lost their neice, laid it out quick, the Black Boyfriend wasn't coming or wasn't leaving. He didn't come for the wedding. You see, the Indians have their ways, right or wrong; and I like having them for friends; just don't drink with them, ha ha. True story.

[Cen-Tejas]

I spend a lot of time in Alaska. So, I really enjoyed this story.

Most of my time is spent along the Yukon and I have been to a lot of these villages. One thing I learned the first day! Don’t call any Eskimo an Eskimo. To them, that is kinda sorta the same as calling a black guy the N word!

We keep our mouths shut and mind our own business around the Native Alaskans. And!, we lock everything up! They have no white guy lower forty type compunction against stealing.

We generally won’t camp within 5 miles of a Native Alaskan Village. If you do, somebody has to stay up all night guarding your VERY valuable stuff.

But since there is no dark in the summer, only midnight to 4 am dusk, guard duty is not so harrowing.