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Well your continued interest simply amazes me, with a feeling that I cannot put into words, cept to say. 15,880 VIEWS

that is what keeps me typing onward,

Posting images and telling the story of what happens / what has happened to me. all because.. .. I was sent to this village just for 3 weeks.

they tried to fire me 5 times, during those FIRST three weeks.!!! LMAO !! TRUE STORY !! I got the flu which lasted for over a week.

Story time !! ha ha ha ha ha!
They even "tried" to fire me once in Anchorage before I came up here.

I installed a switch in the wrong place. ! they wanted this switch mounted behind a pine tree up against some CEO's house. directly behind a pine tree, dripping with lots & lots of sap. This switch was to fill his car with propane. I had to install that system for him. I moved this switch just a little to the right so when he reached in. he would not get all of that "dripping" sap on his clothing! He went ballastic and told the owner of Bussell Electric to fire me. Charlie Buissell, told the general forman, the same thing. get rid of him. NO ! said the general foreman, he is a good worker. just send him to Point Hope. Oh wow ! what ? or where is Point Hope.. I remember looking at the map in the office. Charlie laughing and saying, Oh boy, your in trouble, once them women see you.. ... with all your teeth. watch out !

he wasn't kidding either.. It wasn't the women I had to worry about, it was his son Brian Bussell, Jan 26th, 3 days after I married Clara, she got rapped by him. Clara's four brothers were walking the village with shotguns, looking for this kid.

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Some pretty sneaky arraingments had to be made to get Brian out of the village without anyone seeing him. a chartered plane would have to come far outside of the village hearing to approach the airport. he would have had to have been waiting there. somehow some way they got him out of the village. People were very upset.

We don't want your electricty. stop the job. get all of these construction workers out of town. It took a few weeks for things to calm down,

Brian bussell died in the early 90's He overdosed on drugs.

No love lost there.

It was Jan of 89 when clara finally came to here senses and said.. what are we doing here? Lets go back to Boston.

I was to leave first, get back to work, find a place and send for her and the kids which now stood at four (sisamut).

January of 89 was a month no one up here will ever forget.

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WINDS IN EXCESS of 120 mph, actual temp of 89 below zero. Planes could not make it into the village the entire month. The village store was running out of food.

One of the reasons clara didn't like boston was the manner in which people would make fun of her. (race). hey lady, want an eskimo pie ?

Insults like this were common in Dorchester. clara refused to ever go outside up to the store. I was surprised that she wanted to go back, but I think looking back, this was her way of getting rid of me... It didin't work, obviously !

I was back to work in two days time as a high voltage cable splicer 15,000 volt Paper & lead cable.l huge paychecks. I thought everything was going to work out fine.

4 weeks later I got THE CALL from Clara when I was visitng my mothers house.

I'm pregnant (again) don't come back up here, I am keeping the kids.

I liteally dropped my tools, got rid of the truck I had just purchased from the company and was on the next plane back to the arctic.

I got as far as Kotzebue, and was stranded there four days due to storms, planes could not fly up to the village. I was staying at some friends house in Kotz. that was not a problem. I wanted to be with my children. This four days was like four weeks. A lot of phone calls were made, usually with the results of Clara hanging up on me. I will not let this happen. I have already lost one daughter. My X wife divorced me when I was stuck in the village. Oct of 81.. Just start walking she said.

800 miles ? over three mountain ranges ? Oh you can do it.. just start walking. ha ha ha.. no concept of reality was always her biggest flaw.

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Mar 03, 2008 at 05:39 PM

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Yes indeed, January '89 was a month to remember! Actually all of '89 was a year to remember. I was living in North Pole, which is about 15 miles from Fairbanks, and in January we had twenty-five (25) days in a row when the HIGH temperature for the day did not get above MINUS 55. Then March rolls around and the Hazelwood guys runs his ship aground on Bligh Reef. Then September rolls in and on the first Thursday, don't remember the "number" of the day, the Fairbanks/North Pole area gets hammered with over forty-six inches of snow in twenty-four hours. That snow was still on the ground the following May when Break-up finally got to town.
Yup! '89 was one of those years!

Bob

Mar 03, 2008 at 09:08 PM

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I finally made it back to point Hope in March of 89. huge trouble is awaiting me, Clara informs me, she wants a divorce, again, I am totally against that concept.

I have already lost one daughter (vanessa) and I am not going to loose these four boys.

Now this is how people dress when it is 50-70 below with vicious winds, sometimes you have to walk "backwards" That wind will cut you up literally.

Back in point hope dealing with the daily hassles from Clara was somewhat easy to put up with, sorta.. One day, her momma came over the house. Irma Oktollik showed up and asked Clara, what's this I hear?? you kids are going to divorce ? she spoke to Clara only.. and her answers to her mother shocked me.

she looked clara in the eye up close and said.. why the divorce? he be funny to you ? (mean)? Oh no! Momma he treats me really nice all the time.

then why the divorce Irma asked?? You know how it is ma, she said.. I am young, I want to drink & fool around ! her mother never blinked one bit.. what about the kids she said to her daughter? I don't want them she replied. Irma shook her head,turned around and walked out
Unlike :the real world, In this villages and some others, You cannot tell someone else what to do.. "It is none of your buisness" !! That is the mindset.

. I said you got your divorce clara. but only if you give me these four boys, then you will get your divorce. She agreed!

This was in August of 89. The divorce became final in Jan 30 of 90

We celebrated our anniversary (23) & divorce (30) in the same week. clara moved out of Point Hope to Kotzebue.

I told clara, you know, who I am going after.. Clara insisted she never had loved me, she only married me to save my life.

she had overhead people plotting my death and she felt sorry and that was the only reason she married me. .or so she had said.

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I showed you this house before, but behind it is Joe's house.
that is where we moved next,
Each of these "houses" (for lack of a better word), had no running water, and the entire village still was with out "flush" toilets

I was going to make my move, and write a letter to Elizabeth.. I had seen her plenty of times in the village but I had never ever spoken to her, never got that close.

I have an impossible task in front of me, to raise four boys by myself. I know flat out I have no possible chance of ever getting Elizabeth to even acknowledge me, but I ?? I just gotta try .. to make a fool out of myself if necessary. I am not interested to have her raise my children, no ! absolutely not, Clara was never a mother to these children in any sense of the word.

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for what ?? Love is a very strange "thing" I cannot understand, why, but..

My boss in boston said to me, when he found out I was "dropping my tools" and hopping on th every next plane back to Alaska said to me, David, you can't even take care of yourself, how are you going to ever take on 4 boys? Just choose two of them, and stay here.

That is the dumbest statement I have ever heard of, how do I choose which two boys live and which two boys die, in that village with no supervision?

Two boys will grow up with an education, .. and two will end up in jail by the time they are 12 being a rapist / drug addict ?? I can't make that choice ! I have to go back, .. to save them all.

and I ended up back in Point Hope, I cannot raise my children in this village, nope no way, somehow, someway I have to take them out of here. I am broke, no $$

How many calls were made to social services , in Kotzebue, to "frame" me, I have no idea, but 3 times, caseworkers came up to review the situation. some one wants me in trouble and some people are doing their best to advance that mind -set.

He don't know how to take care of them four boys, He ain't no electrician. ha ha.. There was a knock on the door one day, I said come in, two women walked in that were not from the village of Point Hope. At first they looked very serous but then smiled and said , were sorry, were in the wrong house. Oh I replied whose home ar you looking for? they said my name.. Oh I said.. your in the right house. I am he . A strange look of bewilderment crept over their faces as they looked at one another, then at me and said.. did someone just clean your house ? I laughed and said no. I had a very strict up bringing with a Jewish step mother, I am well equipped to clean and cook and do any chores necessary. My house was spotless, unlike the other homes in the village.

dishes do not get washed until ALL of the dishes, are in the sink, or need to be washed. Children are paid handsome amonuts of money to do the dishes for some familes. As in 15 bux for a ten year old to wash them for you.

I was living in a brand new 4 bedroom house at the time. My home. which I had to give up when I left the village.

It is approaching the month of August, - year 1989 - things are really getting way out of hand.

(and I have to bring this to an end & post images).

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Mar 04, 2008 at 03:41 AM

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then I saw her "face" was a popular song, by a R&R group - the Monkies. When I saw Elizabeth, in the village, she took my breath away.

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Red fox, any fox, is only used on womens parky's. there are many different types of foxes in the Arctic. there are the four legged type and the two legged female type, but seriously, white fox, red fox, blue fox, cross fox, silver fox & grey fox . I am more of an expert on the two legged type. All of the four leg type, have rabies. stay away, don't go near them. and never feed them. In prudhoe bay , it is an instant "fire" if you are caught feeding any animals anyplace, no questions asked, your history.- no rehire ever.

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I don't fool around, I know it is wrong. I was determined to try and make this marriage work, but alas, Clara had been pregnant six times, from her different "boyfriends". She walked around the village bragging about it to her sister(s).

but in each and every instance, .. .. I was blessed, because she had a miscarriage. all six. whew.!! (what are odds for that

) These four are indeed mine. It shows all over their faces.
After 8 years with clara, it was time to call it quits for the kids sake. her Alcohol abuse was too much for me to put up with. I have never been drunk in my life.

I had seen too much growing up.

I do not want to look like that,
I do not want to smell like that,
I do not want to sound like that,
I do not want to puke like that.
and I certainly do not want to walk
or ever "drive" like that ever !

yeah we get "drunk" drivers occasionally in the village. Everyone goes about their business and that is none of their business. that is the mindset. The two police ossifers, (no I didn't spell it wrong, that's what I call them Yes Ossifer.). That made up word of mine, always gets a wierd look in response to it.!!

In any family, I have seen it every place and in every village. The children tell the parents what to do, and the parents obey! No child ever goes to sleep, until the parents go to sleep, you cannot tell a child to go to sleep, they will crash when they crash. There is virtually no discipline.. and the proverb is true and it shows all over the place. ".. .. .. .. "A child left to himself shall come to utter ruin."

I can easily name well over 150 names, of children in jail at a very early age, It is very sad to see such children come to such ruin at such a young age.

The sex offender page on the internet is "packed" with people I have to work with and interact with on a daily basis and that is / was extremly difficult for me. In boston we don' t keep our mouth shut !! but up here I have to;. but something has to change. I love this place, I love these people, I just do not like some of the things that are happening. These same issues are prevalant in any society. Up here,.. .. everyone knows, everything about everybody. This community still functions as one, and that is amazing. beyond anything you would ever expect.

People get along no matter who they are or what they have done. No one holds a grudge.

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That is Willies wife on the back of the honda.

she sure doesn't look 50 does she ? !! The driver is 55.

Willy Nashookpuk .. my across the street neighbor. Look it up. a lot of the names I have used here.. are listed.! ol willie was my forman. .ha ha ha ha.. carpenter forman.. I got fired.!! .. .. "you are the worst electricain I have ever worked with". Those were willys words to me.. after screaming at me for connecting a water heater the wrong way. furp. ! there's only two wires plus ground, it is impossible to conneect it wrong.!! Ol willie wanted me to put a "switch" on it.. furp.. willie has burnt out 3 water heaters in the village utilizing this "trick" of his !!

Willie Nashookpuk.. 3 time convicted sex offender.. He got arrested and taken out of the village two years ago.. for the THIRD TIME.. .. .. he only got 4 years ! (that's what they say.).

Most of the residents of all of the villages, & beyond prefer, to smoke.
The economy of these villages, is based on the cost of a "gram" of pot.
$40 bux a "gram" ! In other words, if someone (20 familes) bring a pound into the village. It is gone in a matter of a two days or sooner.. That person just made $16,000 !

2 toothpick type joints = a gram. This is where ALL the money in the villages goes. to pot. This is why these children need major help. The parents spend all of their money (if they have some) on pot. The children do not get what they need / or want. and they are sick and tired of seeing this go on year after year, after year. and they don't get anything, there is not enough food in the house, and if that family doesn't have the money, then they will sell what ever to obtain whatever little they can get.

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The Police actually want pot to be in the village, it keeps everyone happy and mellow & calm. but when there is alcohol. well that means major trouble. and people get hurt and die on a regular basis.
They will arrest anyone they catch attempting to bring it into the village.
alcohol or pot, hard drugs are not a problem in the villages with the exception of Barrow, I have never seen any sign of this. but Meth is a major problem they say in this village. I have never seen any sign or heard of it. and I don't want to.

Three year old children in this village.. .. are allowed to "smoke" !! I have seen it in too many households. time and time again, I am stunned. shocked and dismayed at the lack of any type of discipline here in any of these villages.

The first boyer I met was Howard Stone Jr. he came into the tent. wanting my lghter and someone to fill his pipe.!!! I used to have images of this three year old, with a buzz and acting perfectly normal!! doing his job ! I was speechless and shocked.!!

I am no saint.. I don't pretend to be. In `90 after the divorce was final, I was not allowed to work any longer,
Even though the village despertly needed an electrician, nope. we will go with out one, and Luke & Angie Koonuk (elders) went 7 months with no electricity. and I was told, stay away, no you can't fix it. The person in charge with this respnsiblity was later relieved of all his duties two years after the fact.

The police came up to me and said. what are you ever going to do to support those four boys now ?? I smiled and said.. well I guess I will have to just go with the flow and sell pot.!! The stern look on their faces and they harsh words they belted out said it all. DON'T TRY IT DAVE. we will arrest you.
I laughed and said.. ha ! you can't arrest me because you don't know how to think, you think like a cop. (they posess absolutely no imagination). I have proved this numerous times*.
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I told them flat out. I will never ever lie to you. you asked me what I am going to do and I answered you.!!

I hoped on a plane to Kotzebue. to see a friend, and purchased some stash to sell.

In Kotzebue they don't sell grams. they sell what you call 1/8th for 100 bucks.

I purchased 5.- $500 bucks. I can easily turn this over into 2,000 in a matter of a few hours. I didn't want to deal dope, too much of a hassle, and people just won't leave your house when they think or know you have something.

I just wanted to get out of this village, things were tottally out of hand and the entire village was against me for going after Elizabeth.!!

I got the living crap beat, kicked, punched out of me by that woman. On 5 different occasions. The David & Elizabeth show was the talk of the village on everyone's lips for much too long.!! Everyone in the village was involved in .. .. "here-say" and it got out of hand and rumors were abounding.

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A 7 dollar bottle of R & R or Vodka in the village sells for $150 bux. It flows like a river and too many children are being destroyed over this crap. How anyone can "sleep" after selling this stuph to people only to see them die or get hurt really bad is beyond my comprehension or understanding. Yet cases and cases get by the police who are attempting in vain to stop the flow of alcohol into these "dry" villages.

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I know of a sweet young girl in the village of Kivalina, (sob).. so sad. she bought a bottle of Ever-clear 150 proof. 150 bux. dead in less than six hours.

Elizabeth Elizabeth !! gosh how I loved the sound of her name, I always said it twice. I was struggling in Augst of 89 to write her a letter, a short letter, brief and to the point, and I hope for the best. but to tell the truth. I am petrified & scared.

I finally got up the nerve after wrestling with the idea for many months and I finaly wrote this letter and mailed it. whew. I am so nervous now. he he he he..

I am scared, really, I told her, "there is only one way for me to know, how you are going to respond to this letter. when I see you, your either gonna walk up to me and slap me right across the face, or your gonna.. .. .. .. smile !
and.. as the days went by, I was afraid to go out, and when I did.. when I least Xpected it.. I saw her, and she smiled !1 whoa !!! I am on cloud 9 zillion.. but it was very short lived. We never got a chance to speak with each other.

She was walking through the village one day, and her closest girl-friends saw her smiling oh so big. so big.. she has the nicest smile of anyone in the village. everyone comments on her lovely smile.. her girl-friends wanted to know why are ou smiling like that ?? she was on cloud nine.. I had heard a few times from other women who were talking to other women.. and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to overhear this statement.. Elizabeth sure wants to settle down and meet someone "nice'. that statement is what gave me the "guts" to go out on a limb and write.. and hope. & pray !

she came crashing down very hard, her two closest girl-friends convinced her,. .. he is just doing this to make clara jealous!

I had expected to hear, I am not interested, I expected to hear, I have a boy-friend, I never expected to hear... .. your lying !! Oh ! No !!!

In the Arctic, houses do not sit on the ground. buildings are set on foundations that leave a few feet under the building for the wind to blow through.

The same is true in all villages, they have learned the hard way, even in Prudhoe Bay. None of the buildings are set on the ground. The wind must be allowed to blow under every building, if not, then huge drifts will mount up and bury that building.

the umiaq's in the village are also stored above the ground. so that children and or animals will not interfere with them. It requires a tremendous amount of work to "skin" an umiaq, six ugruk skins are needed. that's a lot of hunting and getting darn lucky. One of these "monsters" weights well over 1000 pounds, and that's a lot of work

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Preparing the skins for the umiaq is a lot of work and it takes many weeks to get it to the correct "textrue". this is no easy task, lots of daily adjustments to keep it wet and stretched in the correct manner.

*later

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Mar 04, 2008 at 04:58 PM

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very interesting post. the compelling photos show a stark and simple world of friendship, family, and community, of a degree not appreciated by most. Whereas the stories illustrate a terribly sad reality that is even more difficult to fathom.

chris

Mar 06, 2008 at 08:34 PM

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I have not closed this thread in 3 days.... I have kept the window open so when I had a minute (or more) I could sit and read.

Thank you for taking the time to tell us about your home/travels, lifestyle, and all the personal moments which make it a full story. Your countless hours putting this together for us to read should not go unrecognized!

-Marianne

Mar 08, 2008 at 07:21 PM

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Thank you so much for your comments and I promise you the most bizarre and unbelievable portion is about to be posted.

This will be difficult to believe and understand but what happens next is the icing on the cake so to speak !

I had a post made to post yesterday and I lost the whole thing, I don't know what happened and I am trying to reconstruct it .

I have ;not finished yet.. I have so much more to post to show & tell !!

thanks !! for your continued interest ! this is what keeps me going, watching that view count just soar and climb !!

so take a break and check back very soon !!

I am about to do something ( in this story) that no one in their right mind would ever ever do. and the outcome of that "insane" decision !! best decison I had ever made !!

Mar 08, 2008 at 08:01 PM

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Here comes the absolute most bizarre event to this whole story !

Now I am going to shock you. not what you think. nope not even close.

I am about to give away, for free, a brand new $42,000 truck w/12' camper for free,

right here. October 17th of 2003. 7:30 p.m. to a homeless drunk on the streets of Anchorage !

Mar 10, 2008 at 07:25 AM

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Majik_Imaje wrote:

Here comes the absolute most bizarre event to this whole story !

Now I am going to shock you. not what you think. nope not even close.

I am about to give away, for free, a brand new $42,000 truck w/12' camper for free,

right here. October 17th of 2003. 7:30 p.m. to a homeless drunk on the streets of Anchorage !

Did I miss something?

Mar 10, 2008 at 08:34 AM

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David,

So, what's the story behind the truck give away? Must be a good one!

Do you still have this gallery? In Anchorage?

Mar 10, 2008 at 09:39 PM

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back to the 90's ha ha ha.. I am not a good writer and as such I have been bouncing all over the place with my story about Elizabeth Elizabeth !!

THINGS got totally out of hand and I have mentioned that. I had wanted this to work so bad. but alas. something was blocking this whole thing.

I ordered a book from back in Boston. a very special book. I could not approach Elizabeth, nope no way. She had already attacked me several times and the cops wanted to arrest her for assult. I convinced them to leave her alone, it was her friends. that was the problem. One of her close friends still spoke with me and she knda wanted to see this romance take off. I said to Suzie.. here give this to Elizabeth when you get the chance. It was a very beautiful book with her name on the front and down in the lower right hand corner it said Elizabeth Elizabeth!!

Suzie ran into Elizabeth a couple of hours later and told her of my gift.Elizabeth got mad and said I don't want it, throw it away. and that was the end of that.

It was the day before my birthday in 1990 and on March 6th of that year @ 2:30 in the afternoon, I went into the senior center to finish some work. I was still working and tommroow would be my last day at work in this village. As I came into the senior center Kirk Oviok - Tigluk a very close friend. I was always very close to the Oviok family but I had never ever seen Eliabeth in this house, except that one day in 88.

Tigluk said to me.. smiling and laughing as always. :are you working ? " I replied "E" that is how you say the word yes. in Inupiaq, but there are no E's in this language, to make that sound E you need to use two eyes. ii = yes !! and it sounds just like sound of the letter E

Yes I am working I replied to Tigluk, He said " come to my house tonight after work..!" Oh oh.. I manage to give out a weak smile.. I am in serious trouble for ever attempting to go after this woman. the whole village is involved in rumors, and that is all everyone is talking about throughout the entire village.. I am petrified to go over to his house.. and I asked him.. flat out.. "how come?" I made an Ulu for you. I want to give it to you later. I smiled and relaxed and said ok !!

I was still scared to be seen going over to that house. Even though Elizabeth didn't live in this house. I was hoping for the best and I went over right after work.. I knock on the door and a young boy of about 12 answered the door. I had seen him many times.. It was Qutis AliceOvioks son, He lived there with his grandmother and grandfather, he gave me a look, and I asked if Tigluk was home.. he opened the door and I walked in; Tigluk reached down and handed me the Ulu. Rosemary said.. stay for bisquits.. I scrunched my nose and said.. I have to go.

I was out of there. quick and back home out of sight from anyone.. The next morning at work I was so stressed out, this had been going on for too long and it was really starting to get totally out of hand.

I was in my "trailer" at work, the shop with an aprentice and it was time for 9:30 break.. as we were walking out of the trailer. I said.. I hope I can have a good day today.. it is my birthday.. I hope it can be peaceful. and ther she was. screaming coming after me again.. What did you throw at my parents ?? why did you yell at them. why were you yelling in my parents house calling them names !!

She was furous and she is conming after me again, this is the 5th and final time I am about to be attacked. I was finally ready and I knew just what to do and it worked like a charm.

as she got closer. I said.. you better not kick me.. quit kicking me.... she went for the kick.. I grabbed her leg and with all my might I just lifted her leg straight up and flipped her over upside down into very soft snow.. this is it.. I am outta here.

Why don't you ask your parents what happend ?? and I walked away.

That was the last day I worked.. I immediately filled out a workers comp case. I was attacked at work and I am going to use this opportunity to get out of here.. It worked, but it took four months, and I had absolutly no control over which day was picked.

The Insurance co. issued the check and I was on the very first plane out of there. Once those reservations were made. as the day approached for me to finally leave.. July 5th of 1990 is when I said good bye to Point Hope and to Elizabeth Elizabeth.. (sob). To see a woman of that beauty.. so lovely with such a great smile.. yelling and screaming at me was too much to take.. I caused it all. I should have never written to her.. But.. she smiled oh so big when she got my first letter.. then I wrote another, and another and another and another ..then her girl friends took over and made sure this was never ever going to happen.. I left pont hope.. July 5th... yes i said that.. that is because I got hurt on my birthday and as luck would have it.. I am leaving on her birthday !!! I had no control over that. I was shocked later when I finally put it together. there is something very strange going on here.. how come so much resentment from others ?? Elizabeth wanted this.. so did Tigluk and many other people in the vilage. they wanted to see us together. sigh.. what I went through.. 12 letters over 380 pages !!! and all I heard was.. "your lying" !!

I left the village.. and it was a very sad day.. I do not want to be in Anchorage, the culture shock took me a long time to adjust to. it took me over a year just to realize what was missing when I was walking outside.. something was different I could not figure out what was missing.

there was no wind ! There was wind, but not the type I wanted or needed.. and my face felt so different.

Something very wierd is happening here, which I have absolutly no control over, but using hind sight which is always 20/20 I could see. hmmm

this is strange for sure. I do not believe incoincidence one bit.. nope.. we live in a world that is extremly precise.!

someone, something has other options in store for me, this is why the bizarre is just so unbelieveable!

but all of this really did happen. but the very best, the most bizarre is about to happen.

I get attacked for the last time.. .. on my birthday.. and I am leaving this village on her birthday.. do you really think this is a coincidence ?? I had no control over the day I was to leave.

I was constantly trying to get out of that village asap.

One thing about living in such a tiny village is that when major stress arises and such, there is no place to go to escape that stress.

I had my first heart attack in Oct of 89. I was so stressed out from all of the rumores and all of the busy body attempts to interupt this. so many people were against me because they knew I would have taken Elizabeth out of that village.

I had to take my children out to raise them correctly. I could not do that in the village. the people would not let me raise my children the normal way.. nope. you are not allowed to say anything against any child even if what they are doing is wrong.

Ihad a choice when I reached anchorage, go back to work and get on my feet and get my life straightened out. I have four little boys with me three of them are in school. What am I going to do. we are homeless. I have to go back to work and make some money and I can easily make 1,500 per week as an electrician here in Anchorage or on the pipeline. NO ! I simply cannot have anyone else watch these children. I must stay with them and raise them by myself as these first young years are the most important to instill and mold their character. I made the insane decision to stay with them and be poor.

They drove me nuts, .. at first. they were wild from living in the vilage and having all the freedom whiclren have .. and as such they tried doing this here in anchorage and that just doen't work. we finally got a one bedroom place. A friend of mine was leaving and he turned it over to us withone months rent for free. we had a place. and these kids were jumping over everything . I was about to go insane and I knew it. I needed something to do with my hands. All of mylife I have worked with my hands as an electrician on very large type industrial projects. I like to be busy. now I am sitting with nothing to do and I have four babies on my hand that are hyper active and I just do not know what to do .

I finally got an idea and I hoped it would work. I had a little bit of money and I marched the boys clear across town and entered a crafts shop. I purchased a 3 foot by six foot piece of penelope canvas. blank! I had purchased some 3 ply persian yarn. I was going to use the thereputic benefits of needlepoint to try to bring some sort of sane-ness and discipline back into my life. I could not think right as I was able to before my return to the village. I have lost some very basic social skills of which making a decision terrified me to no end. culture shock was severe..I had to bury my nose in logic problem magazines to try and regain the ability to think correctly in modern civilized society once again.

Living in a tiny village where everyone you see each day is a very close friend. Thje village life is slow, laid back, peaceful. I miss that so much.

Here in Anchorage it is.. .. well everything is so fast and noisy and eveyone you see is a total stranger. this is very different. and confusing.

the years slowly went past.. and things started to slowly get better and these boys grew up very happy. I stayed with these boys day and night for years and I never went out, ever. When they went out to play, I was with them. When I went out, they followed me in a straight line.

9 teachers approached me at different stages of these 12 years we were in Anchorage. Mr. Eves,

How did you do this ?? do what ? We have never in all of our teaching careers, ever met boys so helpful and so polite and so well behaved. they always clean up, they area pleasure to have in our classes. How did you do this..I smiled very big , proud to hear those words and I said it was very simple. How said the teacher how ? I said it is easy.. I spend ALL MY TIME WITH THEM day in and day out. I never went on a date. I nver hired a baby sitter. I nver went out alone period. I taught them everything I knew. electricy, photography, computers, calligraphy etc. I have many talents which of I will not go into here. I taught my sons everything I could . and they understood and grew up just amazing these teachers.

1998 was a turning point in my life with the surgery that was bocthed three times. I ended up getting a disablity and some settlement with the insurance company.;

WE OPENED Majik Imaje in May of 2002 a year after my fifth heart attack.

why am I still alive ?? I have no idea cept to say, I have something to finish that isn't finished . .. yet. I guess. I have no answer for this bizarre unique trait of mine.

My first heart attack was in October of 89 due to all the stress I was under. I can't handle stress in that manner. I have to find a solution and as such I did not sleep for one entire year !! I have no idea what kept me going. honestly, I have no reason to exagerate or stretch the truth. I wold lie down at midnight everynight exhausted, my mind would not shut off. I just could not relax and as such I was up at 12:30 pacing the floors all night long smoking 4 packs of marlboro a day.

When I had that first heart attack in th village, they had to send me to Kotzebue to the hospital. the first thing the doctgor said to me.. what's new in your life.. I roared laughing and said . Elizabeth Elizabeth !! He told me.. are you aware that you have had two prior heart attacks ?? I was shocked and aaid no ! Well he continued. sometimes thesemildl ones go by un-noticed. I took a long long time to think about that. and yes I do remember having something happen to me once that was very wierd. .Easter Sunday of 1979 hmmm exactly ten years before I was to capture that image of the children in the bathtub.!

I was in Washington state, some friends and I went out to dinner with our wives on that day. when we got into that restraunt, we sat down and began to look over the menu's.. I started to feel nausious, my hands were clammy, and I felt slightly dizzy and very uncomfortable sittng there. so I got up and went to the mens'room. got into a stall and just sat down and moved my doy over and bent my head wa down and relaxed for about 15 minutes. then this feeling slowlly went away,I felt better and went back to the table feeling much better. I had no idea what had just happened and I never thought anything more about it.

Back in Kotzebue ten years fast forward. I am ok, they send me back to the village and tell me they will give me a follow up report in about a week. I went back to the village and was sent back up the village of wainwright where I was forman teaching apprentices how to do their jobs and teach them electrical theory and such. everything was ok but I still could not sleep.

So my first heart attack was really my 3rd according to this doktor who later reported that I needed open heart surgery. .I scoffed at that idea. I am not going to go thorugh that. nope. I just do not care anymore. I lost the one person that I had cared so much about. and in Anchorage with my children this was a constant battle to get her out of my mind.

Majik Imaje was opened and we did a fantastick market study and found out first hand what all the tourist thought and all the local people lwent absolutly nuts when they saw these images. I had been selling these images since 1983 and thier appeal was overwhelimg. I made great money from these images.

420 W. fourth Ave is the address for Majik Imaje. and I have an awesome vehicle that was paid in one payment of 42,000. I am about to give this away for free. In fact if you use google earth and type that address into the address box. zoom in and you will see two log cabins side by side and in back of those two cabins is this truck.

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Mar 11, 2008 at 10:50 AM

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The person, that is drunk, walkinig down the street is someone I haven't seen since 1983. Allan Lane the person who saved my life, when I fell off that snowmachine up in those mountains.

He is approaching me, crying, I have cancer and I don't want to die. I have two months left.

I grabbed Allan and hugged him searly and screamed out, at the top of my lungs and evryone on 4th ave stopped and looked around as I yelled. Jeeez Uz !

Take this cancer out of him & put it in me !

Allan said. your just saying that. I said No! Allan I lost what was important to me. I have no desire to keep on going on.!

allan said he was homeless. I laughed and said no your not. and I pointed to this truck.. here is your new Home. He said. .that's not yours.. I pulled the keys out of my pocket and prewssed the button on th eremote starter and the truck started up loud.. It is a diesel.. I threw the keys to Allan and said. .it is all yours !!

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Good story. Great gesture! Wow!

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it turned out. Allan did not have a drivers license. We sorta adopted Allan and took very good care of him.. .. for the next 5 months.

We wanted to make, his last days.. as happy as possible. I said to him. Allan this is your truck but .. .. until you get a valid drivers license.. I / we will have to drive you around where needed.

Dec 23rd of 2002. I am at home working . the boys are at the gallery downtown Anchorage. 12:30 in the afternoon, my phone rings, without taking my eyes off the computer screen I picked up the phone, A womans voice I recognized, was on the phone all excited. David I have such good news for you.. .. I wasn't interested in anything that Alice had to say.

I had just received a check. From the corporation in Point Hope.. Tikigaq for 15k

they took two of my photos, I had submitted to them. and cut my copyright notice and my name off these photographs and had phone calling cards made.

I had to chase them for six years.. then they handed me that check and it was all Spent on Allan, new clothes, new tools and he wanted to become apart of our family and work in our gallery and make and create Ivory bracelets.

Allan was the "king" of Ivory carvers on the entire North slope.. he was the best.

If it wasn't for Allan, my sons would have never been born, I had to do what I could to help him in his trouble(s).

Now for the bizarre.. 5 years later, Allan is alive and well.. how about that !!

it turns out. .Allan was lying. It turned out, he took everything we owned and then some.. We were the ones who became homeless.!!

WE lost everything, I mean everything we owned. We lost our land in Palmer (1 acre worth 40k). I lost the truck, my business, my home, we were homeless. broke, and having lived in Anchorage snce 1990 it is now 2003 and we have no place to go.. cept back to Point Hope !!

January of 2003 we moved back to Point Hope. embarrassed, tails between our legs, we arrive in the village.

The overwhelming warm welcome was a huge surprise to us. Allan has been doing this "cancer" thing, getting prople to feel sorry for him, and give him money for over 6 years according to people in the village, that fell for his bold faced lies. we just happened to be the latest in his scheme.

I learned a lot about photography, just from reading words. in books and in instruction manuals. and when I followed those words.. I got the results it promised.

I have also learned a lot about "life" from reading words, in another book. and it is just so amazing, that when you follow and do what those worrds say, the results happen in strange and very bizarre ways also .. .. ..Prove me.. Test me... I remember reading those words.

and no greater Love does a man have,.. .. then he lay down his life.. for a friend.!!

I purposely laid down our whole lives.. .. for my enemy !

Allan always hated me and expressed it constatnly way back in the days of the 80's.

He came to us.. asking for help.. and he found out the "type" of people we are.

He came to us... and we found out.. the "type" of person he was.!!

Back in Point Hope.. he once came over to see me.. and I hugged him..!!

sure I wanted to kick the livin crap out of him for what he did.. but I was not going to stoop to his mentality !! We kept showing love and respect. Positive values only.. never any negative values were ever expressed by my sons or myself.

Then the bizarre happened.. all I could do was "gasp" .. and smile!!

Every good and perfect gift.. .. is from above !

Allan cannot even sell a bracelet in his own home town. I know nothing about carving ivory or making bracelets. but I do know what I am lookng at, and how to make it look better ! and ...I taught my sons how to make bracelets.

In less than 1 years time.. .. Allan lost his gift. The Eves boys are the talk of the town in Kotzebue, Pont Hope and now In Barrow.

We made everything back 3 times over !! so quickly... Allans momma.. orders bracelets from my sons. so do his sisters.. in fact one of the elders in the village said. Man.. your boys own this town now. We have never seen bracelets of this quality ever.

Allans bracelets only sell for 100 - 200 each. His Momma threw 400 bux at the boys when she saw the triple inlaid bracelet that was made expecially for her.

Our bracelets sell big time in Barrow, we left Point Hope in August of 07 to move up here. .and on some of our bracelets we receive .. $600 bux !

world quicklly spread back to Point Hope.

currentlly.. these boys have made and sold.. Just over 2,000 bracelets & ear-rings.

My sons work from 8: am to 8 pm four years non - stop and believe me these boys and so happy happy happy.. !! I haven't seen Allan since 2003.

he is very very scared.. he is doing it to himself. he came up here last week for the whaling captains annual meeting on the quota system. My boys ran into Allan outside of the meeting.. He was very scared.. My sons spoke with him at length for quite a while he was scared, looking around constantly over his shoulders constantly. My sons are all laughing. (indside).

then another Bizarre event happened.. .. 17 years later.. Elizabeth and I finally got a chance to sit down and talk. I remember reading about a man who waited for one woman for 14 years, and as a child I thought this was the most insane story I have ever read. I just could not get over someone. with that much "feeling" would lwait.. .that long for just one woman.

I got that story beat hands down.. 15 years later.. !! I was 55 when this happened. Elilzabeth was 48 Now I can see just a little bit clearer. Lord you have one marvelous incredible sense of humor !

I had no control over two events.. the date of my last attack.. and the date I left pont hope Attacked on my birthday & left the village on her birthday.. I had absolutlly no control over when these two events were to happen.

Now 15 years later.. when we finally got together.. this little gem surfaced.

I was born in 48 Elizabeth was born in 55

when we got together I was 55 & Elizabeth was 48

Coincidence

I highly doubt that one bit.!! I do not believe in coincidence. We live in a universe that is just too mathematically PRECISE. and as such some "intelligent order" is very plain to see.. .. if you take the time to look

I purchased an engagement ring for Miss Elizabeth Oviok. In 2003 In Achorage. I went out on a limb in faith only.

I was on the plane headed up to the village and I was looking at this ring.. I sure hope that ring fits that womans fnger I said.. I sure hope that this fits perfectly other wise.. It is going to be.? I need this to fit her perfectly..

It wasn't until I gave this ring to Elizabeth that noticed what this ring said !!

and I proudly explained what I saw.. this ring I replied has one big diamond in the center.. this big one is you I said.

this little tiny diamond over here.. is me.. these other diamonds are ONE
for each of the years I had to wait. 15 more diamonds !!

Elizabeth and I were finally married in May of 2003 "we did" - "we do" "were done!"

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IT IS A VERY CRUEL world we live in.. I have posted my stories and photographs

on many forums. and the overall response was outstanding. although today It was pointed out to me.

I made a mistake.. I was banned from a web forum when this one mistake was discovered.

A woman from south carolina - magansmom - decedied I was lying, I was not telling the truth.

she started a big fuss. and it all got out of hand. My mistake ? In the porton of my story when they pulled the whale up in Barrow.. only one person died. not two. aa I had written. the mod closed the 2 threads. and banned me

City data .com under the Alaska sectction.

If any could put in a world of support for how you felt about this subject matter as a whole. it would be much appreciated.

8 months ago a person named Mike Jordan did the same thing. .and I was banned from that site also . he kept insisting that I did not create those photos and that I stole them. which of course is ludicrous.

Meanwhile my site went down all data bases were trashed and I had a problem on my hands.

now 8 months later here comes this whiz lady from south carolina wantng to sue me and bad mouthing me over these same images. I have no right to post my photographs of real people and talk about them on the internet. ??

here is the bizarre part.. Last night my web site was hacked and it went down data bases destroyed.

but this person who did this left a 'footprint"..

and it is quite comical. I am hoping there is enough infomraton here to catch this person..

Now why would a computer (Ip addy) go through 5 different continents to access a forum and then sign up using the name Hill Billy Bob

too much of a coincidence. if you ask me.

I have thousands of photograhs. tons of 30 years worth of storeis and more.

twice in 8 months by two idiots.

during the last two and half months I have received 1,000,000 hits

much more than that but it is the very first time I have ever reached that many hits in just a short amount of time. THANK YOU !!

I guess when ever a new station or newspaper makes a mistake we should shut them down also.. some people think this is justified.

I am hoping someone has the no how to decipher all this info from this attack an destructon to my site.

More photos and stories soon .. I got to figuer out what to do!

thanks for all your continued interest.

STANDING, CLAPPING, CHEERING, WAVING - th;ank you all ! so very much !

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I am seriouly thinking about giving up all of my collection.

I own all rights and as such I can give them away.

Lets say I give all rights to you. and give you a signed notarized paper giving you

all rights to these images for whatever use you want.

You get to sell these all.. and keep the money !!

what a deal eh ??

My concern is the children of all these villages.

I need to build nine new youth centers.

My plan is this. to give over the rights to certain indivicuals, they keep all the money that they generate..

Now if you care.. then you can donate what ever portion you want for these children in these 9 villages..

any input would be appreaciated.. thoughts or ideas.!!

thanks again for taking the 'TIME" !!

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It is a wonderful day here in Barrow today.. My son Mark is coming home from Arctic grocery. 21 below zero..

and you think that is very cold !! it is a wonderful day.!!

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20 below sounds very cold, and it is.. where you are.. .. but in the Arctic, it is so dry. that this is just a wonderful day.

Mar 25, 2008 at 07:40 PM

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The boys are going to be in the news !!

The quality of this bracelet is just something to behold.

This wasn't even finished yet, and 5 people want them @ 500 bux each.

Not a bad days pay for high school dropouts

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Wow! Your thread is still going. I haven't been on FM much until the last couple of days. Beautiful bracelet. Good luck with the computer and people issues.

May 17, 2008 at 03:24 AM

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My first post in 98 days here Brian !!

May 17, 2008 at 03:50 AM

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i HAVE SOME great surprises for you .. ever hear of trees in the arctic.. such as palm trees.. we got some up here !! (chuckle)

the amount of humor here in the Arctic is easy to see in a lot of different places in a lot of different villages. .We got baleen trees

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I thought I was the only one with snow in the yard still. Great shot of the 'trees'!

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We are still miles out on the ocean ice, harvesting whales for the village.

I will have updates soon !!

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What an interesting thread! I loved the images that you shared here and the stories that went with each one of them. I found the way you get fresh water from the ice interesting. Thank you for sharing.

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Children can't wait to test their new found skills at navigation on the water, Practing for that day when they will be trained for the real adventure.

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