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| BACK FROM: ALASKA/CANADA/NEWFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR 01/10/05 (Fri) 14:20 |
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Well, yes, I'm back! What a trip a seven week blitzkrieg in which I had little option but to hammer and hammer away at what it is I do, and inching towards a vision of a better world, one lit by the smiles of a few billion kids. That's all!
The scene of my next action, a village in North Labrador, is infamous throughout all Canada and is known as the blighted home of gasoline sniffing kids and world record levels of suicides. I read some 300 articles (held at the local university) and a mere 299 of them proved to be negative! Almost alone it seems, I see opportunity (Hope) from all this heart wrenching chaos. First though, I had to sweep through Alaska like a demented banshee and say "thank you" to literally hundreds of folk I've known across 11years. Honorary citizenships of Barrow, AK, were finally authorized to be issued to Rabbi Abraham, Academician Boris, Jumper, Franka and Bill Bacon. Plus Don the Armenian, Cliff the co-parachutist and Teisha in Fairbanks. "Companion & Honourary Companions of Peace" went to all others qualified. Kathy Turco was on the credits for sound in Jurassic Park 11. The Fairbanks crowd were presented by their city mayor. In Anchorage Norman (former Uni. janitor) shone, what with his new honoraty degree. Jumper and family came up specially from Seattle. A resolution was voted and passed so that he and Teisha both received The Thanks of Both Houses of Alaska's 'Parliament.' Jumper's second world's record begin a long road to establishment. The event at the Captain Cook was quite a thing; all firebrand native leaders and such as his Grace the Bishop of the Russian Orthodox with two monks, all head to toe in black complete with head dress and gold crosses. The look was 5th Century Mediterranean. Our friend the Commissioner of Education came and President Nixon's Secretary of Interior, Governor Hickel called me "George." And many, many more. Joe & Kelly, two beautiful native kids were the stars and we love these kids so much which is why we fight on. In Canada's Maritime Provinces I found the Arcadian French as arguably the friendliest in the world, closely followed by Newfoundlanders, whom the cold Brits - my people - should have become, but never did. They have perfect 19th Century English and Irish accents, and their capital at 500 year old is the most beautiful in all North America. I meet the Labradorian INNU Indian kids in their village. It was from here - Davis Inlet - that one of them came with a former Chief to join our "Last Action of 20th Century" on Point Barrow. It's a stunning, beautiful spot with the look and atmosphere of a George Lucas other planet. They don't much go for school either. (One H.S. graduate every year or so.) And that's has been the saving grace for their language, which also sounds like from another world. English for many is as strange and as difficult as Chinese. Health is becoming an issue. My gums were separating from my teeth. A constant fight on this, for no insurance will touch it. The money situation is always a nightmare. So what's new? I had no money for example, to go north, but Air Canada com'ped me tickets as did AIR INNU MIKAN. All told I only spent $40 in Labrador in 10 days. Labrador has two tiny towns and several villages. But also at Goose Bay NATO's airstrip, which is 3rd biggest in the world The NYC disaster put down 90 trans-Atlantic big jets and containing about the population entire of this huge territory! I not only had to try to show the INNU that I wasn't just another white guy with an idea. After all they had thrown the Catholic Church out, the Royal Canadian Mounties and in an act unique in history had taken over the court. Many of the INNU had been jailed, Chief Katie was called by Time 'the most powerful woman in Canada.' the teachers that I wasn't an outsider know it all, but the government too, that I made sense. I met Labradorian and Newfoundland ministers but also federal types and was invited whilst in Ottawa to walk across to the Parliament to meet the senator. It's going to take this kind of coalition to pull off the miracle of INNU survival.
If you want something real. This is it. When we will try to put place a start to turn history, that from its current course is leading to total destructuction of all native cultures. See and feel life at the outer limit, the edge, in Labrador's winter. Join us. Interested? contact meegan@cc.kshosen.ac.jp |
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