Making Progress

Prudhoe is shutting down, BP executives are putting on sad faces, and politicians are wagging their tails at this. They should have tails anyway, they are all just a bunch of wolves trying to feast on rural oil. The three big oil companies stand to lose out on a lot of money that wasn't really theirs in the first place anyway. The State of Alaska likely will have to dip their relentless hands into the Constitutional Budget Reserve, due to the loss of revenue from oil which wasn't theirs in the first place. Chances are rural Alaska which deserves to be developed will again bear the brunt of the burden. Gas prices will rise ten cents in the city and fifty cents in the villages. It's not all bad... the oil still sits in Rural Alaska. So why shouldn't the State as well as the oil companies give to rural communities while they continually write laws concerning rural lands (any law concerning rural Alaska, written by an urban-based politician, in my opinion, is likely to be ridiculous stupid irrational and not logical in any sense), and pump oil from a land foreign as well as a great distance away just to fund a legalized colonial state. This is the first and only time that I will write on this, because maybe you people do not know what happened in recent history of Alaska. The United Nations Declaration on Decolonization required that the United States educate indiginous Alaska on their right to build a new nation! Instead, the colonizers of Alaska (many of whom were racist and prejudicial against natives) decided to legalize their plundering of native land by promoting statehood into the United States of America. Let it be known that few natives could vote, or even knew what was going on at the time. Most of them just wanted to fish, hunt, and survive. Today we are, I am sad to say, a colonized people. We are an assimilated people. We are still yet an oppressed people. Some of this is what I call self-oppression. In rural Alaska, many natives oppress themselves by drugs and alcohol. They hold themselves back by a disease brought on to them by the US military, whom 100 years ago when it was against the law to sell alcohol to natives, gladly commited chemical warfare on a foreign land. Many of these natives who were sold alcohol died first deaths in a disease that has ravaged Alaska for generations brought on by a government who "needed" free range in Alaska.

Like I said, it's not all bad... we are making progress. The honey bucket in many communities are now history. Starvation is as history as history can be. A hundred plus years ago, many natives starved because they couldn't follow the food. When I read books written or told by elderly natives or natives whom has already passed, I am inspired by their will to survive and thrive. This was their whole way of thinking, survival. They didn't think about Ford, Toyota, light bulbs, Polaris, Yamaha, oil, gold, etc. They thought about keeping warm and having sufficient food. They took care of each other, and when necessary, they even allowed the elderly under starvation a dying wish of death! Today I know more than the average man my age, perhaps more than most, the history, the changes, the hardships, the progression, and the joys of Alaska. It is my homeland. Who would I be, if I didn't want to know it intimately, and wanted to make it better? I will be honest, I don't have a great history regarding my personal life. I don't even have a car, but I do enjoy the long walks home that I am sure my ancestors did long ago. I am a Koyukon Athabascan, and I am proud to know where I come from. They are a hard working people, yet admittingly getting lazy in modern life, with loving communities, all desiring a better future. You may say it would be a waste to build a vast new network of roads, but I call it a vision. A vision for my homeland that will happen.