The Native people of Alaska have been fighting and fighting for generations to ensure rural communities thrive, thinking up solutions to get especially the young people to stay and contribute to the community. The boarding school times in which young people left "for a short time" were some of the most devastating to these communities.
What these communities need is infrastructure, jobs in the communities themselves.
Palin's reminder to villages: We're in a cash-based society now.
Does she think the village people are trading beads? Seriously, the amount of times Palin talks down to rural people in these remarks is nauseating.
Palin learned about this situation from the media, not from actually listening to the people of her state.
In
early August, the
Anchorage Daily News reported prominent Native leaders directly talking to Paling about these problems, and the solutions that including building infrasctructure.
The short-term problem is hungry kids and no heat.
clipped from: open.salon.com