Viewpoints
Long Island A Subsistence
Area
By Jean Bland
April 24, 2006
Monday
Not only Carrie James is angry; everyone is Hydaburg is angry.
Long Island is and has been a long time subsistence area.
It is a proven fact that green
trees grow in the winter and the alders grow in the spring and
summer, and they provide nutrients for the green trees.
If Klukwan is allowed to spray,
we invite them and the folks who issue the permit to join us
on Long Island while they are spraying, as we WILL be there to
protect our subsistence land.
Klukwan folks should remember
how hard they fought when they were trying to spray their subsistence
land.There is no difference.
We will continue fighting this
until someone realizes that we are right.
Jean Bland
Hydaburg, AK - USA
About: Jean Bland was born and raised in Hydaburg. She writes
she has "Lived here all my life except the years I was in
school. I am a cancer survivor so I know what shemicals can do
to a person, and how hard it is to fight it."
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