One day while the V.P.S.O. was on a flight from Bethel to Pilot Village he started experiencing mechanical difficulties. He radioed back to Bethel but they couldn't understand what he was saying so he called over to Pilot Village to say that his plane was going down.

We called over to Bethel by phone and told them a plane had gone down. One elder who was listening on the VHF told the search and rescue team that the plane went down around Toklik camp, not far from Ohagamiut. When they got there they found the plane was on fire and the V.P.S.O. was lieing on the snow dead. His head was cracked open and his body was covered with blood. They called over to Toklik to call Pilot Village about the accident.

A couple of weeks after the accident at a meeting the mayor announced that we were going to get a new V.P.S.O. Everyone on the council wanted to know who he was and what he looked like. The mayor told us that we'd see when he arrived on the first flight in the morning.

When the V.P.S.O. arrived everyone went to check on how he looked. When I first saw him I thought he was wearing a face mask because I couldn't see his face. But when I got closer I noticed that he wasn't wearing a face mask at all. His skin was a different color!

Later on in the evening two kids and a woman came in on the evening flight, and they were black too. People gossiped about it and didn't want to socialize with them because they were so different from us.

Early in the morning the next day when the new kids went to school nobody wanted to sit by them because they were a different color and acted differently. When the new boy, Charlie, moved over to the boys' table, one by one the local boys moved away from him. He started to cry, and left the classroom and went to the principal's office. The principal then came into the room and asked us what was going on. Then during lunch break everyone called him a baby because of what he did.

Right after school, Skip, one of the local bullies, went up to Charlie and punched him. Charlie went home crying. His dad, Willy, then went over to Skip's parents and asked them what was going on. Skip told him he didn't like Charlie because he was a different color than him! Willy got pissed off and went out the door. Right after that Charlie's big brother, Alex, beat up Skip really bad.

The Traditional Council then called the State Troopers the next day, and they said they would come out ASAP and pick up the whole family. When they were leaving the airport everyone had signs that said, "NO NIGGERS IN OUR TOWN!" Willy and his family were all crying when they left because of what the town did. They never went back there again.