In 1976, the case commonly referred to as the Molly
Hootch case, was settled by consent decree under the title of Tobeluk vs.
The next activity was an inspection of the soldier, his weapon, and his
hootch. After that, the day's work would begin.
"Muckamuck" (applied in derision to someone in authority) comes from Chinook trading jargon, as does the slang term "
hootch," for alcoholic beverages.
The panorama beneath them remained empty, interrupted only occasionally by the sight of a villager stirring in the window of his grass
hootch or the sound of a playing child.
whether from the
hootch or the hurricane, I was lit.
In it is a line he would sing to me, "Stay away from bootleg
hootch when you're on a spree." The CBC felt it inappropriate, ostensibly because "children won't understand it." I argued and lost.
Having spent over thirteen months there, I realized that all we'd accomplished there were forted up enclaves and that the countryside and the night belonged to our enemy, who could possibly be everyone there with an Asian face, including the mamasan in the
hootch you lived in who shined your boots.
Outside the
hootch, we open mail, hundreds of letters from youth groups, scout troops, classes of school children.
The famous 1976 case Tibeluk versus Lind, known as the Molly
Hootch case, revolutionized education in Alaska Native villages when the court ruled in the plaintiffs' favor and 126 villages were granted high schools.
Hootch acknowledges that choices in how education is provided will lead to differences, but that addressing those differences is a matter for the legislature unless they violate the equal protection clause.
This was after the Molly
Hootch decision: The legislature was interested to see if the high schools were really working.
"What the country, see some of hell," they parodied in the bar who-knows-who had built at one end of the
hootch. Butterball didn't see much.
(13) Instead, the approach should be, as suggested below, grounded in Alaskan precedent, principally the interpretive framework established by the Alaska Supreme Court in Molly
Hootch v.
