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AKIACHAK, Alaska (AP) — Wil
lie Kasayulie was 13 when he had to
leave this Eskimo fishing village. Ii
had no high school, and bright kids
like Willie were sent to distant
boarding schools.
Far from family and home, he
polished his English, learned to deal
with ignorance about his culture and
realized the depth of his love for the
land and his people.
At 37, Willie Kasayulie is back
home, putting the lessons of his
teen-age years to use. As chief of the
Yupiit Nation, he leads a coalition of
19 Yupik Eskimo villages in a battle
with state and federal officials over
control of the villages’ destiny.
When Congress settled Alaska na
tives’ land claims in 1971, it tried to
avoid the social ills endured bv
American Indians in tLie lower 48
states. Instead of reservations run by
tribal councils, it set up corporations
run by native shareholders. But now
Kasayulie and other native leaders,
disappointed by the corporations'
performance, say the tribal way
looks better all the time.
Their efforts to assert tribal sover
eignty are opposed by state and fed
eral officials, who fear that recogni
tion of distinct tribes in Alaska could
split the state into an unmanageable
hodgepodge of independent en
claves.
But Kasayulie, also a commercial
fisherman, says that denying tribal
status is denving a culture its right to
govern itself by its traditions.
“They're trying to take away im
cultural rights,” said Kasavulie. “I
don’t want to forget who I am or
where my roots are. We’ve got out
language, our history, and those are
as important as the history of the
United States.”
Akiachak, population 470, on the
muddy Kuskokwim River in south
western Alaska, can be reached onlv
by boat or airplane in summer, bv
dog team or snowmobile in winter.
Despite its isolation, Akiachak is at
the center of a movement among ru
ral Alaska natives to assert tribal con
trol over education, law enforce
ment, taxation, game regulations
and other governmental f unctions.
The struggle is waged in legis
lative halls, courtrooms and the na
tive villages themselves:
• Akiachak residents voted in
1983 to replace their municipal gov
ernment with a tribal council. The
council now runs the village’s water
treatment plant, pays the salaries of
three police officers and levies a 2
percent sales tax. A panel of elders
metes out fines for minor crimes in
the village. But the state recognizes
neither council nor panel as legiti
mate governing bodies.
• The Athabascan Indian village
of Copper Center announced its in
tention to tax the operators of the
trans-Alaska oil pipeline, which
passes through traditional hunting
grounds near the village. The case is
pending in federal district court.
• A non-native family expelled by
Tyonek’s tribal council sued the v il
lage. A federal district court upheld
the village’s sovereign immunity
against such suits; an appeal is pen
ding.
Congress thought it was heading
off such conflicts when it passed the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
in 1971. Hailed as the most generous
settlement ever struck with native
Americans, the act granted Alaska's
natives $963 million and 44 million
acres in exchange for dropping ab
original land claims.
1'he land and money were put un
der control of 12 regional corpora
tions and 200 village corporations.
“Congress said in ANCSA,‘Look,
the days of reservations are over.We
want you to be good businessmen
and he part of the American eco
nomic mainstream,’ ’’ said Thomas
Morehouse, a researcher at the Uni
versity of Alaska’s Institute lor Social
and Economic Research.
The law’s boosters said the cor-
potations would make money for
Alaska’s 70,()()() Eskimos, Aleutsand
Indians, help develop the state’s re
sources and assimilate natives into
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LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Some
people might think it unusual that a
75-year-old man would take a con
gressional internship simply to learn
more about the government.
But Jerzy Patejak, of Wampum,
Pa., who is serving an internship this
summer with Rep. Joe Kolter, D-Pa.,
thinks the unusual people are those
of any age who do not take an active
interest in politics.
“How could you not be involved
in politics?” asked Patejak, a retired
design engineer.
“How could you be unaware of
what is going on? After all, every day
somebody makes a decision which
affects you. Our freedom, our very
existence depends on the govern
ment.”
Patejak’s interest in politics dates
back to his youth in Poland.
He studied engineering at War
saw Technical Institute and law at
Warsaw University, and fought
against an invading Germany in
1939.
Patejak spent the next six years in
German prisoner-of-war and labor
camps.
He was liberated by Allied armies
in 1945, but instead of returning to
Poland, which Liad been liberated by
Russia, he traveled to England to
continue his engineering studies.
In 1951, he moved to the United
States.
He has written more than a dozen
“Sound-Off” columns for the Bucks
County Courier Times on topics
ranging from the steel industry to
education to the Iran-Contra scan
dal.
The internship with Kolter is an
opportunity for Patejak to actively
pursue his interest in politics and see
the government from a fresh per
spective at the same time, he said.
“All of the information I’ve ever
received about the government lias *
been from the press or from the pol
iticians themselves.” he said. “This is
my chance to see how it works from
the inside.”
The idea of taking on the inter
nship first came to Patejak a year ago
while having a discussion with an as
sistant of Kolter.
When the assistant saw that Pate
jak was genuinely interested in the
workings of the government, he sug
gested a congressional internship.
“I didn’t know and probably a lot
of people don’t know that such
things exist, but I thought I would
give it a try,” he said.
Patejak called Kolter’s office and
asked for an interview to discuss the
possibility of an internship.
He didn’t think that his age
should be a factor in whether he was
given the internship position or not.
Kolter agreed tfiat his age should
not be taken into consideration.
Patejak sees his purpose as being
an independent observer of Kolter,
who serves on the aviation subcom
mittee of the House Committee on
Public Works and Transportation.
Kolter is currently seeking a
fourth term in the House.
LOUISVILLE, Kv. (AP) — The
Mini Deaf Olympics has done more
for 16-year-old Michael Coomer of
Louisville than simply give him a
chance to compete in athletic ev ents.
“He’s very excited about it every
year,” his mother. Norma said. “You
can see a change in him when be
comes back from this ... It seems
like he’s more satisfied with the rest
of the summer.”
Olympic organizer I imnthv
“Timo” Owens would probably be
happy with that result. It’s one of the
things he wanted to achieve when he
sal down with six others in 1983 and
tried to figure out how to give deal
and hearing-impaired children
something to do in the summertime.
“Summer is the most boring sea
son for the deaf,” said Owens, 32,
who is deaf. “I know because I went
through this myself.”
Carolyn Clark, co-director of pub
licity for the sixth annual Olympics,
held in July at the Kentucky School
for the Blind, agrees.
“In the summer, there’s really
nothing. They feel isolated. They
Liave no one to play with in the
neighborhoods,” Clark said.
Owens said this year’s event had
112 participants from five states —
Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina,
Michigan and Tennessee.
Some of the youths, who ranged
in age from 7-18, were completely
deaf. Others were hearing-impaired.
Some could read lips and speak
clearly, some used a phonetic ap
proach to speech, some used a com
bination of lip-reading, speech and
sign language.
But each year, Owens said, the
participants come away with the
same message — that the Deal
Olympics is something which is sepa
rate from the hearing world. It’s
something they can call their own.
T he youths spent four days play
ing volleyball, basketball, table ten
nis, badminton and participating in
track-and-field events. They also
swam, bowled and roller-skated.
Awards were given each day and
gold medals awarded on the final
day of competition.
“It’s a lot of fun,” said Michael
Hesse, 17, a senior-to-be at Louis
ville T rinity High School. “Youget
to compete, and you actually get to
go for the gold medal,” he saidwiih
a laugh.
The Olympics, however, isn't just
daytime sports competition. Itsalso
nighttime social activities.
This year, the youths went ona
Belle of Louisville evening cruise,
danced the night away at a dress-up
teen disco, got in the mud fordouble
dare and slid down an artificial wa
ter slide.
Owens said some youths want to
return each year for the social events
alone, but all have to participate in
the athletic activities.
The youths’ athletic ability is less
tban-average, he said, but "ihei
never think about it."
The sports competition "dial
lenges them to explore their possibil
ities. . . It also helps them to knouit
doesn’t hurt to try,” Owens said.
Clark said deaf and hearing-im
paired children do not havemuchol
an opportunity to participate i»
sports in school, especially at the var
sity level, .
Getting the chance to join ia
sporting events teaches the yi
leadership and teamwork, she
adding that these are skills hearinj
children learn everyday.
Owens said this year’s Olympics
budget was $12,()()(), but heexpecied
the total cost to run about w
over that amount. Participants paid
$25, which included their food and
lodging.
Clark said, organizers would likt
Louisville to he the site of a national
Deaf Olympics, culminating a series
of mini-events in all 50 states.
To reach that goal, Owens hasqml
his teaching job and .will live oil his
savings, lie said. Work, he said, pre
vented him from being able to seel
grants and sponsorships.
Clark said, “We don’t have
time to go and talk to peopledurii
the day.” All the money is given out
early in the year, and “we’re oul
working,” slie said.
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