The town of Port Angeles, WA is blessed with fabulous natural riches, a few rags, and a certain number of racists. Today's headline concerns the attempt of some in the community to punish the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe for getting in the way of white man's moneymaking, with their historic request to leave a 1,700 year old graveyard at rest.
The article in the Peninsula Daily News:
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/183006
What you can do about this, below:
Any Kossacks out there who like seafood? The racist boycott of the tribe's new enterprise, a gourmet cannery, is meant to strike at their economic presence on the downtown waterfront. But the InternetS are the true home of commerce nowadays, and the tribe has a fine website promoting their wares.
http://sf2000.registeredsite.com/~user1086796/index.html
Show your support for a tribe who has made the right decision in protecting their spiritual health, in the face of an angry cadre of locals who just won't accept the presence of uppity "Injuns" getting between them and their dollars.
As the great t-shirt says: "Native Americans: Homeland Security Since 1492!"
Here's another background article from the Seattle Times:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002116942_elwha12m.html
The racism is subtle, so is the local coverage of it. The flyers have been turned over to the FBI for criminal investigation - the local paper did not quote the contents of the flyers, I am just assuming that hate language of a racial nature was involved, as windshield protests don't usually stir up the Feds. I'm not native -the minority has the final say on whether or not an action or expression is racist, IMHO. The public statements I have read from the tribal leadership seem to indicate they have been receiving threats of harm that are specifically anti-Indian.
By the way, the native community explains their position in a petition to halt excavation (out of date, as the project has been halted by the state)
http://www.petitiononline.com/village/petition.html
Now go order some smoked salmon!