text: Dear ADN commenters and opinion scribblers. 
  Please scroll down and read David Leavitt's comments on the powerful impact boarding schools have delivered upon our Aboriginal Brethren suffering pre-oil Alaska's mediocre (or non-existent) village education system. I don't know this man but he speaks way over my non-native head.
  Growing up in Andersen, I never supported nor understood sending Native children outside or across state. But the BIA Indian Boarding Schools sound like they saved thousands of lives from his descriptions of "Siberian archetypical" cultural poverty and unimaginable rural Alaska horror. 
  Mr. Leavitt is truly our brother from a darker mother. He is a hammer amongst us blatantly white and puny literary nails. I've followed his writing and really believe his "words are of iron" (Clint Eastwood).
  My hat is off you and I now follow these amusing and sometimes absurd comments here at the Alaska Dispatch and Mud Flap News.
  You just keep writing, I'll continue reading.