IDAHO THINGS : THE LONG "LIVE-IN" AND GOOD WORDS FOR ME -- AND MORE

SEPTEMBER 26 2013

Our night-time problems with unwanted human visitors have quieted significantly. As I have noted before, "night-rider" types are inherent cowards. But -- eternal vigilance is our word and practice.  And there is no reason to believe the special mail hold involving all mail coming to our address has been modified.  There continue to be weird computer problems which have been endemic ever since we converted to the Computer Faith on December 12, 1998.

Exactly why all of this shadowy harassment has gone on -- from the moment we arrived in Pocatello, Idaho, in late July 1997 -- is difficult to determine.  But it's part of the turf which goes with a "known agitator" reputation.  We've always been able to handle those things quite effectively.

About two weeks after we got here, I looked out a window of ours and saw a car with two guys in plain clothes.  They cruised slowly up past us, staring at our house and myself at the window.  Then they turned and went down, very slowly.  The one who was driving looked up at me and mouthed, "We'll have you out of there in a month!"  We learned a bit later that he was a police official.

That was a little more than 16 years ago -- and we're still right here.  No plans to go away.  Been a long Live-In.

Part of their problem with us stemmed from poisonous individuals in and around our previous home at Grand Forks, N.D. -- bolstered by knife-persons from afar.  But some may well have stemmed from my successful activities as the main sparkplug of the police reform campaign in Grand Forks.  This link gives a page with three strong endorsements of myself and our work.  One, 1990, is from a former Mississippi governor; another, 1995, is from a prominent administrative official at University of North Dakota -- with whom I worked closely over many years on behalf of Native (and often other) students.

The other, 1995, is from the  (reform) police chief of Grand Forks.

The Link:  http://www.hunterbear.org/there_is_a_saying_in_our_native_.htm

On other fronts, snow is in higher elevations not far above us.  Froze last night up here and we turned the furnace on. Hard to believe that, less than a month ago, we were in 90s heat with drought.

As the saying goes, "It's a great life if you don't weaken."  That's for sure in the great Gem State.

Fighting on,

Hunter Bear

HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / 
St. Francis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk 
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO

Check out our massive social justice website
www.hunterbear.org  The site is dedicated to our
one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray, and to Sky Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm
.
See my  new expanded/updated "Organizer's Book," 
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new substantial 
introduction by me. And this book is also an activist's
how-to manual:  http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm   

See our very full and substantial COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
page -- with a great deal of practical material
http://hunterbear.org/my_combined_community_organizing.htm

Check out our Personal Background Narrative (with much info)
http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm

See the Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(Many photos.)