On 11/28/2010 10:42 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ...
> On Nov 19, 5:59 pm, > wrote:
>> Dear Howard,
>>

> i remember a night while living on queene ann hill when a car came
> down the dead end street we lived on, turned around and dumped a woman
> on the street in the snow. i went down and with help from my wife we
> hauled this woman up to our house. her clothes were all gone and she
> was drunk, which didn't matter to me, i thought any real human needing
> help should get it, if she had been white i might have just called a
> cop to haul her away, but she wasn't so we took care of her for a few
> days, the wife giving her some clothes, i then took her back to the
> res to her home. she had been taken advantage of by those who dumped
> her and had bruises all over, her crime of getting dumped was being a
> native, pure and simple, the guys who dumped her were white. typical
> of many folks to hurt natives in seattle back then. the year was 1962.
>
> That could be. I am part Cherokee. We lived in Wichita and my grandma
> begged me not to tell anyone for fear of what people would do to us or our
> house. We moved to Edmonds in 1966. I could not believe how accepting
> people were here.


Wow, what an amazing story. Good for you and good job!

Hasta,
Curt Nelson