ALASKA NATIVES COMMISSION
JOINT FEDERAL-STATE COMMISSION
ON
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS AFFECTING
ALASKA NATIVES
4000 Old Seward Highway, Suite 100
Anchorage,
Alaska 99503
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ALASKA NATIVES COMMISSION
HEARING
Nome, ALASKA
SEPTEMBER 21, 1992
Francis Johnson
(Tape changed to Tape #3.)
MS. JOHNSON: Why the
BLM did not know someone built house on my ground at Council?
Second one, why house turned cold when
winter come? NEC promised to fix it. Always run out of money.
Why nobody build houses here like at villages'?
I have some children all have no houses here. My houses where
I go camping,
they're
collapsing. I can't stay with them. And my new house what
no Eskimo built, I can't stay. Wintertime come, I got to go to
Anchorage, where they have warmer houses. And they're supposed
to fix it, but always run out of money.
And while two grounds
I have at camp, we go camping, me and my boys. I have two
boys here now and one grown. All of them don't even have
house.
One
have house all right, but it's too cold to live in the
oldest boy, Wally Johnson. My name is Francis Johnson. Thank
you.
COMMISSIONER ELLIOTT: Sam, are these government-built
houses she's talking about?
COMMISSIONER TOWARAK: She's talking
about -- just for the record, on that housing, she's talking
about public housing.
She also
mentioned, that some of these housing that they provide
are poor-quality housing, and that the children are not getting
a chance to get
houses -- housing like they are in the villages. Also
she mentioned the BLM not able to monitor a property other
people
are building
on her property.
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