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Yellow Bird: Embrace the new but don't toss the past
Monday, November 24, 2003
"As I write this column, I know that oil drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not in the federal energy bill, which Congress is considering. For that, I am thankful. I also am grateful to the Vuntut Gwich'in people who met with me about their stand against the oil companies and gave me a better understanding of the people, caribou and their land.
Last week, the Alaska Coalition's Jay Heeter, freelance photographer Jess Berrie and Moses Lord, Gwich'in from the Old Crow village in the Yukon Territory, visited with me.
As I leaned forward to listen to the soft-spoken Lord, I found it hard to picture him as a person who lives 80 miles north of the Arctic Circle. If he were sitting on a bench in the White Shield, N.D., community center, I probably wouldn't have noticed he was an outsider."
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