native-groups &laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feed http://en.wordpress.com/tag/native-groups/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "native-groups" Wed, 22 May 2013 02:42:08 +0000 http://en.wordpress.com/tags/ en <![CDATA[Even further North...]]> http://adventuresinfieldwork.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/even-further-north/ Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:41:36 +0000 adventuresinfieldwork http://adventuresinfieldwork.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/even-further-north/ We took a most convoluted and poorly signposted road out to meet the local natives at Ft McKay (a Metis reservation to the North)- they seemed pleasant enough although there was a cemetary ominously close to our meeting spot. The native groups are wonderful for providing traditional land use information about areas we’re interested in.

I fear my survival in this new job will depend on my ability to learn a new language – the language of acronyms: EIA, HRA, TK/TLU, SOC…I’ve already forgotten some I’m sure, perhaps I should start recording this strange language.

Our field progress is greatly hampered by the ceaseless rain and thunderstorms – they’ve estimated 40-50mm by tomorrow afternoon. Incidentally, even if we wanted to go out, it would seem that those great hovering beasts, helicopters, do not do well in thunderstorms. Ft McKay cemetary

]]> <![CDATA[Alaskan Lawmaker Does Something Halfway Decent for Once]]> http://abovethenews.com/2012/02/01/alaskan-lawmaker-does-something-halfway-decent-for-once/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:07:55 +0000 Nicodemus Sinclair http://abovethenews.com/2012/02/01/alaskan-lawmaker-does-something-halfway-decent-for-once/ After languishing in committee for almost a year, supporters are galvanizing behind Alaskan senator Donald Olson’s (D-Nome) proposed bill to fund the creation of a Native Alaskan Language Council. The council would advise the governor (Secret Evangelical Dictator-for-Life Sean Parnell) on programs to preserve and strengthen Native language education. Sadly, such a council comes too late for Eyak, a language spoken in the southcentral part of the state whose last native speaker, Marie Smith Jones, died in 2008.

The bill was held in committee by Bill Wielechowski (D-Anchorage) pending talks with Native groups, which in Alaskan politics likely means “pending bribes from Native groups.”

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