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I could not believe it when I got this email:

Some of you in the Anchorage area might be interested in this course that I will teach at UAA in the fall 2017 semester:

Anthropology 436: Aleut Adaptations

3 credits (undergraduate)

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

(First day of class is Tuesday, August 29, 2017)

Beatrice McDonald Hall, Room 119

This course covers the entire human history of the Aleut/Unangax region, from its initial occupation thousands of years ago to the present day.  Topics covered include the first peopling of the islands, the relationships of Aleuts/Unangax to other Alaska Native peoples, pre-Russian cultural adaptations, the Russian and American colonial periods, the history of the Pribilof Islands and the fur seal industry, and issues of importance in the region today.

The nerve of them!!!!    My entire history?  Really??!!   As if they could know it!  But here is my response to him:

Hello Doug,

what a claim, the entire human history of a peoples?  Please explain how you can dare to claim such a thing!

"from it's initial occupation thousands of years ago", uh huh and let me guess, Norwegians were the first real occupants or some such bs like that??  

I object to you "teaching" my history like this and as if it is the final say.  I want it amended to read "as imagined by white war criminals wanting to control all the natural resources of the area"…

What gall and nerve!!!   Whatever you say and teach does not mean it is the truth!  Please keep that in mind when you are talking of real people and their culture.  People who are alive and upset at our gall!!

thanks,

Please write him and tell him this sort of thing must stop!  Please write him and ask his sources, etc. to make such an outrageous claim as this!!  

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Douglas W. Veltre, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology

University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, AK  99508-8334

Office: 907-786-6847 ~ Anthropology Dept: 907-786-6840 ~ Dept Fax: 907-786-6850

We are not mindless sheep to be led to slaughter like this!  The war criminals steal how many billions a year of our natural resources??!!   They want us to believe we are insignificant and "simple" peoples or some such nonsense!   The nerve of them, but it has always been like that up here, the westerners thinking they can do whatever they want and no one will care.  You may recall the chants of "drill, baby, drill" when they were trying to turn whatshername palin into a political star…

and now with Trump as their president… they dare to put this class as if it were real and validated and truth and not their wishful thinking of greedy disgusting war criminals!!  I am sure the nazis wrote many such articles too!!  The good peoples of the world do listen and care.  They want us separated and divided and are terrified one of you might actually read this and write him about it!  



The one thing about our peoples is we have been here since Time Immemorial and will be here always.  It is our Home!  War criminals see it's riches and rape the lands savagely and brutally.  

I am Unangan from Attu, Alaska.  I am not ashamed of my peoples or history or culture!  This course is a sham and they should be ashamed for trying to pass it off as historical truth!!

War criminals will never stop until we make them stop!  We do this by challenging them when they try stupid things like this!  Please pick up your phone or sent an email asking his sources and how he dares to make such a claim as 'the entire history of a peoples'!!!!

hugs,

~Sea