[Serene28060]

You are correct that the Navajo Nation came out with a plea of sympathy for the Native American who set one of the fires in hopes of being employed to help put out the fire. The Nation was as appalled at his behavior as anyone else. I do not know if the country was privy to the actual news conference wherein discloure was made that the woman would not be prosecuted for setting the second fire, however I live in Arizona and the conference was notoriously absent of Native Americans. The vast majority of people who expressed their anger and grief at this woman not being prosecuted were NOT Native Americans. The very angry crowd was made up of the home owners who had lost all their property and livelihood.

You are incorrect in your assertation that the ‘same’ people, meaning the Nation, expressed no concern for the ‘white’ woman. If you can separate the two incidents, the Nation quickly and honorably spoke up for their misguided brother and begged for understanding to keep the sometimes tenuous ‘peace’ toward Native Americans, but has, at least publicly, remained silent regarding the ‘white’ woman’s fate.

By the way, the majority of forest destroyed comprised more than 60 percent of the land designated as the reserve that is the livelihood of Native Americans in the logging industry. It was a sad and tragic loss for all.

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Name : Serene28060, Gender : F, Age : 43, City : Chandler, State : AZ, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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