The Delta Discovery - The real news for the real people

Most of us don’t take to changes too well, but we learn to adapt in order to survive, and keep a forward momentum. Change affects all of us differently. I think, the one thing that helps to changes...

For years I’ve seen people on television selling what medicines can do for you, and I’ve personally questioned some of these ads. Television is a very powerful medium telling people that things li...

I’ve always had visions my whole life. When I was a kid, I had visions of becoming a hunter and I did. I had a vision of going to school and schools and teachers came into my life. I had a vision...

I never thought I’d ever have to talk about bingo, but it’s starting to bother me again. I hear too often how bingo has taken over our lives. We depend on playing bingo. For whatever reason, I...

Back in the 1960s the Henry Shavings Family recorded a song entitled, “Whiskey is the Devil.” Since that song was written and recorded, millions across our great nation have been jailed, because o...

If looks could kill me – I would have died multiple deaths when I was a kid. The first time was when my grandma Hannah was desperately digging through her Sailor Boy Pilot Bread cracker boxes. Her...

I’m going to let the story of Wassilie Kameroff and myself drive this story. We were attending a 5 day healing workshop at the Donlin Creek camp that changed our lives, at one point becoming like li...

John B. Doe who is looked up to by his family and friends, easily put down by those who don’t know him as a person, father, husband, and friend. He has values like most Alaskan Eskimos, Indians and...

I had the opportunity to play with the “CC 907 Band” (“Cool Country,” “Cross Culture” 907 - area code for Alaska), a band meticulously put together by Moses “Uksuq” Wassilie from...

I didn’t have but a neglected compact mirror until recently, when I acquired mom’s 24” X 36” mirror, cleaned it and guess whose image I saw in the mirror? Amazing but true I saw an image of a...

It wasn’t the life I chose for myself, perhaps maybe I wanted it at one time, not knowing any better. Drinking alcohol and abusing it for twenty-four years took it’s toll on me, I still remember m...

You ever hear the expression, “I’m doing time.” It may be an expression you hear from a prisoner. In the old testament times it details the imprisonment of Joseph in Egypt. Today, prisons are...

This was sent to me on e-mail. Have a history teacher explain this ---- if they can. Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln...

One of the keys for a successful hunting trip is silence, and keeping quiet with exception to calling game. Talking needs to be kept to a minimum, talking like you do at home is out of the question...

No change occurs without struggle. What happens to a mustard seed when you clench it in your hand? Nothing, but when you plant it in fertile soil and water it then, it will begin to grow, but not...

In our group discussion the other day I just realized something that I never put any thought to before. Is, what I do today going to affect my great or great-great grandchildren down the road? You...

Amidst all the deaths we’ve been experiencing lately, especially friends and relatives, I was feeling a bit lower than I usually do. On the weekend I received a call from my cousin Lois Stover from...

What I wouldn’t give to have one more breakfast with mom and dad, my brother Tony and grandma Hannah. It’s not possible because these people are no longer with us. I could say the same things...

Two issues back I talked about our cup of pain and hurt each one of us fills up throughout our lifetime. Our cup can get so full it starts overflowing. The term, “My cup runneth over,” is often...

Being with family, doing things together as a family, like picking berries are the things that stand out in my mind. For a kid, being with family and doing things with mom and dad and siblings are hap...

As I began examining my own life sixteen years ago, I began learning more about myself and what makes my tick – tock. Just last month I remembered when I was seven (7) years old going out with my...

Why do I live alone, yes it gets lonely at times. Why am I out of touch with people who really care? Why am I stuck in a cell, incarcerated, and why do I choose to keep coming back here? It isn’t...

Chief Sitting Bull, TETON SIOUX said, “Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. “Our bodies are both physical and spiritual, at our very center we are spiritual. Our bodies are built aro...

When I looked up “values” it means: principles, standards, morals, ethics, ideals, and when we talk about traditional values it could include these Tlingit Values: Respect for self and others...