April 12, 2005
Tuesday

Mr. Albert White and others who share the same opinion: Thank you for that well written letter. You have not offended me nor would I hope, others who share the opinion.

Hopefully, it will open the eyes of our fellow Natives up in Klukwan. The Board of Directors work for you, the shareholders. They must do what you instruct them to do. Please, take a huge step back and look at the aerial spraying from our point of view, from our ancestors' (some who are buried on Long Island at the village site of Howkan) and also from the animals' (who can't speak for themselves) who do eat the foliage in that area and stop the spraying!

Join your voices as one and tell your Board of Directors that you oppose the spraying and don't want it to happen. Petition your Board of Directors, I'm speaking to Klukwan's Village Corporation Shareholders. You will be heard. I can't believe that as Alaskan Natives you would want to poison the land and the air.

Please hear us and act before it's too late.

Haw'aa.

Frances C. Natkong
Hydaburg, AK

Related 2005 Viewpoints:

Open Letter To Shareholders of Klukwan Inc. by Albert K. White - Ketchikan, AK - USA

Aerial spraying on Long Island by Karen Eakes - Ketchikan, AK - USA

Open Letter: Aerial spraying on Long Island by Don Hoff Jr. - Hixson, TN - USA

Aerial Spraying of Pesticides: Decision Questioned by Elroy Edenshaw Jr. - Ketchikan, AK - USA

Aerial Spraying of Pesticides by Rob Sanderson Jr. - Ketchikan, AK - USA

Show Us Aerial Spraying of Long Island Is Safe! by Frances Natkong - Hydaburg, AK - USA

Aerial spraying is not the right thing to do by Rick Grams - Ketchikan, AK - USA

Aerial Spraying? by Marie L Monyak - Fairbanks, AK - USA

Aerial spraying by Jean Bland - Hydaburg, AK - USA

Opposed To Aerial Spraying of Pesticide by Donna Hamilton Baptista - Lynnwood, WA - USA

Stop the poisoning of our lands... by Frances C. Natkong - Hydaburg, AK - USA

 

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