Kwethluk

Kwethluk: six hundred miles from the nearest highway fifty-below winters generator electricity no running water (except in the school and teacher housing) no doctors no dentists no veterinarians no restaurants no malls nor movie theaters. Here we'd begin our teaching assignments for the Bureau of Indian Affairs white people-kass'aqs-working for those who in another time and place had helped to kill Crazy Horse and Geronimo for their lands. But this time to paraphrase the BIA's official mission we'd come with a cavalry of books to save the natives from themselves.