May 28, 2013
Tuesday PM

I was raised in Hoonah, graduating from high school the same year ANSCA passed Congress. Never paid attention to the corporations until I was 40. Ran for the board, made it and continue to battle "them" as I observe reverse discrimination. That's what I see... racism and discrimination hidden within the walls of the Native Corporations.

I am an educated woman, who has lived in the Western culture for many years. I am and will continue to fight the repression, control and power that Congress put upon us 40 years ago! No oversight, no expectations... just pure hell caused by the lawyer laden Native Corporations, along with their "chosen" Native leaders!

If we were African American, there would have been a Civil Rights march.... but the corporations control everything, including the pawns they use then discard when they get what they want.

Alaska Natives as a whole need to work together to take the shackles off that was placed there 40 years ago! ENOUGH!

Tilli Abbott
Mtn Home, ID

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