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3 NARF Legal Rev. 1 (1975)

handle is hein.journals/narf3 and id is 1 raw text is: Native Amria RihsFn h*ainlIda a irr ANNOU.C.A6. S Volume 3, No. 1 January- March THE FIFTH DISASTER - The Colonization of The North Slope of Alaska 1975 There is an American city at the top of the world which is closer to Leningrad than to Los Angeles - closer to Istanbul than to Miami. The city, called Barrow, is located on the North Slope of Alaska, a land without edges, full of winds and silences. A land which is a part of the people who have lived there as long as any people in North or South America - The Inupiat Eskimos. The Inupiat - which means the people - have survived four disasters on the North Slope. They are now in the midst of the Fifth - the American colonization of their homeland. Eskimo legends tell of disasters, some of which occurred thousands of years ago, others less than 60 years ago. The First Disaster was The Cold Eclipse - a time when the moon covered the sun and the Eskimo's homeland turned from a very warm country to frigid desert. The Inupiat, the animals, the birds and the plants froze. The legend says only four families survived. The Second Disaster was The Big Flood which followed a series of terrifying earthquakes and turned the mountains into an icy plain - all but a few Inupiat drowned. The Third Disaster came during The Terrible Year of Two Winters when the Inupiat could not get food and died of starvation. The Fourth Disaster came after the Inupiats' first contacts with white men - men who brought them The Terrible Sickness during the flu epidemic of 1918. The Fifth Disaster is The Taking of the Land of the Eskimos. And because the whites are doing this, they may succeed where all past disasters have failed. The land is part of the Eskimos. It cannot be amputated - no more than the spirit can be separated from any human being. To take the land of the Eskimos is to take their life.

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