"Alaska Daily" on Hulu (Fairbanks, Metlakatla: crime, high school, rating)

[Northrick]

Originally Posted by Frostnip

"Must Read Alaska" appears to be about 50% sourced to Suzanne Downing's fever dreams, so take anything from that blog with a cellar's worth of salt.

Suzanne Downing lives in Florida, that's all I got to say about her website.

[Metlakatla]

Isn't this the community that banished some meth dealer a few years ago?

[riceme]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Isn't this the community that banished some meth dealer a few years ago?

I think that was Allakaket and it was two or three people, wasn't it?

[riceme]

Dang I guess this has happened more than I realized

https://www.ktoo.org/2017/02/25/alas...-dealing-meth/

https://www.kool973.com/alaska-tribe...-from-village/

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rura...illegal-drugs/

https://www.kdlg.org/crime/2017-08-2...-jail-sentence

[Northrick]

Originally Posted by Frostnip

I've heard some rumors about the principal. Bear in mind that these are only rumors and could well be false, and even if certain ones are true I'd question whether she actually would have the power to make the decisions she's blamed for. But apparently she's accused of questionable hiring decisions, being physically rough with students, neglecting Covid protocols, failing to cooperate with the local traditional council, doing away with programs important to the community like native language education, trades and arts, and behaving in a racist way toward native school faculty and staff...I think some other stuff too. Either way I'm surprised LKSD (the region's school district) didn't swap her out of that position themselves some time ago, because even if every accusation is unfounded, things aren't going to operate when the relationship between the school admin and the local community has broken down that much.

I hate to say it, but school districts are not sending the creme de le creme of admins to bush and rural "spoke" villages in some cases, and you do get some admins out there who would not be tolerated by a school in, say, Fairbanks, either because of lacking social skills or because of actual incompetence, negligence or malfeasance.

It doesn't sound like all or even most of the teachers left the village, but that they're going to distance ed temporarily while understaffed and chaotic. Most rural Alaska schools nowadays are already minimally staffed and it only takes losing a few personnel before you don't have enough people to run a full schedule, even in a well-run campus where everyone is working together, which it does not sound like this is.

I don't think I'd characterize this as Native vs. non-Native, more local vs. outsider.

Sounds like what you said is close to the truth:


https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rura...-safety-fears/


I'm curious though, "She loves to humiliate Native staff,” according to the complaint. Her last name is Lightfoot, which to me, suggests she is also native. Maybe not Alaska native and maybe, that's part of the problem.

[riceme]

Originally Posted by Frostnip

Here is the news coverage the show is based on: https://www.propublica.org/series/lawless

I enjoyed reading this and thought I'd share it.

https://news.uaf.edu/pulitzer-winner...assion-at-uaf/

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by Northrick

Sounds like what you said is close to the truth:


https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rura...-safety-fears/


I'm curious though, "She loves to humiliate Native staff,” according to the complaint. Her last name is Lightfoot, which to me, suggests she is also native. Maybe not Alaska native and maybe, that's part of the problem.

Lightfoot is an Anglo-Saxon name.

There was some sort of rumor that Gordon Lightfoot was Native, which is probably where the association comes from, but he wasn't.

[Metlakatla]

So I don't hate this show; the supporting cast carries it, imo, especially Grace Dove.

For anyone who's interested, the ceremony at the end (and the language in the subtitles) was Tlingit.

[Coney]

Love this show. I hope that it is renewed.

[Arktikos]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

So I don't hate this show; the supporting cast carries it, imo, especially Grace Dove.

For anyone who's interested, the ceremony at the end (and the language in the subtitles) was Tlingit.

With a couple local Juneau actors in the ceremony we recognized.


I doubt there will be another season. They seemed to wrap things up fairly well in the last episode.