To a skilled eye, the view Tom Michaud describes out the window behind his desk in the portable office building is nothing short of amazing: a multi-million-dollar cross-shaped building that will contain elementary, middle and high school classrooms in three wings, and offices in the fourth, science labs, a sports complex, ball field, and other scholastic trappings.
A few weeks ago I had an experience - one that I will remember for a lifetime. Along with several dozen teachers, I flew aboard a jet aircraft as it went through a flight profile designed to produce authentic weightlessness - the kind space travelers experience - albeit in small, bite-sized chunks.
As in Barry Lopez's book "Arctic Dreams," "the landscape forms the mindscape, and the mindscape forms the landscape." For identity purposes, our Native children must interpret the modern world with equivalent perception from within our Yupiaq world.
MARQUETTE — As the Northern Michigan University hockey team departed Marquette for the 2005 CCHA Super 6 in Detroit, there was a distinct void in the bus and later in the crushing defeat to Alaska-Fairbanks.
