The words of our governor from a story in the Sun Journal (Nov. 2) are far more racist than the Lewiston mayor’s letters to the Somali community.
I am appalled at statements, which say the Native Americans in Maine could make money by weaving baskets and making native carvings and doing their enterprises on or near the reservations.
Doesn’t he know that they have been weaving baskets for centuries and it hasn’t brought enough revenue to support the tribes before this? And why should Maine’s Native Americans be limited to doing business only on or near reservations, which have limited them into poverty for all these years. As a descendent of the Native Americans, I am offended that he would make such a racist remark against the only real native Mainers.
Sylvia Lane, Lewiston
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