BY DONN LISTON (2016©DonnListon.com) February 28, 2016 NorthernRight.com Over the holidays we spent time with family Outside, some of whom I have not seen in quite a long time. One lovely woman whom I last saw more than two decades ago approached me familiarly and enthused that she heard I was now a teacher! She …
REPRINT FROM: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/articles/ADN/Gruening_Rights_Fight.htm by Donn Liston, Daily News Staff Writer Anchorage Daily News, June 28, 1974 Long before civil rights confrontations of the last decade, Ernest Gruening fought for equality among people. And with the death of Alaska’s “grandfather figure” Wednesday, Native people are remembering what he did to ensure their human rights at a …
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REPRINT FROM: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ANCSA/ARTICLES/ADN/Coping_Bureaucracy.htm by Donn Liston, Daily News Staff Writer Anchorage Daily News, June 20, 1974 Sometimes you just can’t win when you’re dealing with the bureaucracy, according to Roy Peratrovich. And even when you’re winning, you lose. At least, that’s the way Roy Peratrovich, Anchorage Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent, must feel. Anyone who …
