Word: merculieff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your business to get involved in politics, let the men do that,"' was a typical discouraging remark that Rinna E. Merculieff heard before leaving her native Aleut Island in the Bering...
...great to be around women who have goalsin life," says Merculieff of her classmates atHarvard. "My personal friends [at home] give uphope, accept the fact they can't be leaders in thenative community, and I just don't agree withthat." Merculieff founded and directed a statewideagency for stranded rural Alaskans in Anchoragewhich provides crime prevention training andemergency aid for victims...
...studying the legislature, Merculieff saysshe is learning skills she would use if shedecides to become a lobbyist on behalf of her homeisland's seal harvest, replacing the currentnon-Aleut lobbyists. Merculieff will be the firstperson from her town of 500 to get a mastersdegree and she says that she hopes to provide arole model for the youth and women of hercommunity to continue their education...
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