JIM WELLER (1:123/140) wrote to STEVEN HORN at 23:32 on 02 Sep 2008:

 JW> I didn't want to make it too long.

I just posted a very long one about Sarah Palin so I would not have objected.

 JW> Old animosities take a long time to die. In 1980 my first year in
 JW> Yellowknife, I agreed to billet athletes for the Arctic Winter
 JW> Games as there weren't enough hotel rooms for everyone. I ended up
 JW> with 4 Inuit girls from Coppermine. I was in the Polaris apartments
 JW> at the time (you probably remember these places although nobody
 JW> else here will know what I mean) and gave them directions on how to
 JW> get to Sir John Franklin High School for the gym and to Nettie's
 JW> for the cheapest meals in town. They would walk over to 49 St, up
 JW> to Franklin Ave. and back to Nettie's to avoid walking in front of
 JW> the Gold Range Hotel. I asked them why and they responded, "Because
 JW> of the Indians. They hate us you know and they're drunk and they
 JW> all carry knives." They were genuinely scared.

Your post brought back a host of memories, including the parts of Victoria
and Vancouver I preferred to avoid.  But the one which interests now are
the stories about the village (McIntyre Village) which is the home base for
the Kwanlin Dun.  People tell me they won't go in there in broad daylight
because of the damages their vehicles take from pop bottles and so.

I don't recall Rainbow Valley being like that. Have things changed?

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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