Articles from the May 15, 2016 edition


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  • Only woman to declare war against the United States of America

    K.B. Schaller|Updated May 14, 2016

    Born in Bonners Ferry, Idaho April 26, 1936 Amelia "Amy" Trice was the daughter of Helen and Baptiste Cutsack. She attended the Kootenai (KOOT-nee) Tribal School, Chemewa Indian School, and Bonners Ferry Public School. Although she contracted tuberculosis during her childhood and required periodic sanitarium treatment, she completed her education, and when she was only 20, she served as secretary on the Tribal Council. She married Xavier Aitken in 1954. The couple had six...

  • GIDI Birthday Celebration

    Updated May 14, 2016

    On Sunday February 14 2014, GIDI celebrated their 53rd anniversary. It was held in the soccer stadium in the highland town Wamena, and attended by thousands from all over the central region of Papua. In addition to a number of speeches and a sermon, we had a choir leading the audience in a number of songs-all composed by GIDI members, and some of them in tribal languages. One by the late Yali leader Otto Kobak, which is about having received the gospel in the mountains and...

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