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Alex:

Thanks very much indeed for your very good letter. And congratulations =
on the successful outcome of your most challenging and interesting ninth =
grade History Day project. I am truly honored that you chose to depict =
me and a number of the key challenges that we faced in our historic =
Jackson Movement.=20

Tomorrow is the Mississippi primary and it's highly significant that, in =
contrast to the bad old days, a vast number of Mississippi black people =
are registered to vote and will be the decisive factor in the outcome. =
Many pundits predict that a good number of white people there will vote =
for Barack Obama. Mississippi has come a long way -- still has a long =
way to go [as does the whole country] -- but things are infinitely =
better now than the blood-dimmed days some of us remember so well and =
will never forget. I am very pleased that you chose to pursue those =
issues.

As I've often thought and said these past several months, "It wasn't so =
long ago that we had to fight to survive at a Woolworth lunch counter!"

In an interesting coincidence, one of my grandsons -- Bret Salter [Quick =
Bear], now in the seventh grade at Glyndon, Minnesota [Fargo / Moorhead =
area] -- did much the same thing as yourself. [And you, of course, are =
not that far geographically from him, being at White Bear Lake.] He dug =
into our large website and formulated his fine version of Me. I am much =
honored by that as well. Like you, he did very well in his class =
presentation and drew a high grade. He had the advantage of knowing me =
personally -- but, for your part, you asked all the right questions and =
I'm sure that your depiction, like his, "captured" me very fully.

So I am quite proud of both of you guys. You are very fine troopers =
indeed.

And I'm quite sure you will both continue your very solid interest in =
the key social justice issues that exist now -- and, in one form or =
another -- will stretch far into the Good Future that each of you will =
be privileged to enjoy even as you both join so many others in making =
this rather worn and tired world a far better place.

Please give my best, Alex, to the good Mr Daniel. Doesn't seem that long =
ago that he was a student of mine at UND.

Once again, my strong congratulations to you and to Quick Bear.

Take care and all best. As an old friend from the Old Days in my native =
Southwest so often said, "Success will be ours in the long run." [Juan =
Chacon of New Mexico.]

Nialetch/Onen

Hunter Bear

HUNTER GRAY  [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR]   Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk
Protected by Na=B4shdo=B4i=B4ba=B4i=B4
 and Ohkwari'
=20
Check out our Hunterbear website Directory =
http://hunterbear.org/directory.htm
[The site is dedicated to our one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm

SEE MY COMBINED COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PIECES -- WITH MUCH NEW STUFF  =
HUNTER GRAY/JOHN R SALTER, JR [HUNTER BEAR]  SEPTEMBER 5 2004 -- AND =
WITH NEW INCLUSION:  THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AS PRACTITIONER, TEACHER, =
WRITER AND STUDENT [HUNTER GRAY -- FEBRUARY 19 2008]  ALL OF THIS MUCH =
REPRINTED - PLUS MANY  NEW COMMENTS
http://hunterbear.org/my_combined_community_organizing.htm
=20
Wobbly Mentor:  http://hunterbear.org/wobbly_mentor.htm
See Forces and Faces Along the Activist Trail:  =
http://hunterbear.org/forces_and_faces_along_the_trail.htm