Karen Thompson from Metlakatla has helped me so much. Her uncle's photo album is one of the few I've ever seen of all Native men socializing during WWII Alaska. 2/
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Last time I visited Karen I helped her complete the paperwork to request her uncle's military records from NARA. We found out that her uncle died of TB during the war. Until then it was a mystery. 3/
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So here I am writing about the TB epidemic in Alaska where 10- 25% of the Native population was hit, and that's some grim statistics, and all I see in my head are these photographs of Native servicemen socializing and how her uncle's life was gone too soon. 4/
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And then I think of my own family- and the fractured stories from relatives. And the era when my grandpa had TB and my grandma had to snare rabbits to feed all the kids. They had 9. To this day my mom & her siblings can't eat rabbit. 5/
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This TB epidemic was part of what Yupik theorist Harold Napoleon called "the great death" in which colonial violence & diseases altered the fabric of so many Native families. 6/
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As a former CHP and current PA familiar with village Alaska, I hear you. So many orphaned elders from so many diseases. TB was a major reason the CHAP program started.
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