Native named Miss Alaska USA
Carroll crowned Miss Alaska USACourtney Carroll, a student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, was crowned as Miss Alaska USA on Dec. 8.
Carrol, 25, received the honor at the pageant held in Anchorage. She will now compete in the Miss USA Pageant early next year.
The Fairbanksan is the daughter of Pat Carroll and Gwen Hoffman and is the step-daughter of Fairbanks Police Chief Dan Hoffman. In 2001 she was named both Miss World Eskimo-Indian Olympics and Miss Fairbanks Native Association. Comment: Unlike the Miss Navajo beauty pageant, this competition requires no Native knowledge.
Carrol, 25, received the honor at the pageant held in Anchorage. She will now compete in the Miss USA Pageant early next year.
The Fairbanksan is the daughter of Pat Carroll and Gwen Hoffman and is the step-daughter of Fairbanks Police Chief Dan Hoffman. In 2001 she was named both Miss World Eskimo-Indian Olympics and Miss Fairbanks Native Association.
posted by Rob at 10:45 AM
2 Comments:
She is a UAF dropout. Not a student, and it is sad that you do not have to know anything about native culture or be involved in it to claim being involved in native issues. The only native issue she is familiar with is alcoholism.
I don't know if that's true, but it's not a very nice thing to say.
Maybe she dropped out after she won, since the newspaper I quoted said she was a student.
If you ask me, the whole concept of beauty pageants is outdated. If you want to honor women for their leadership qualities, have a leadership pageant, not a beauty pageant. If you want to honor Natives for their cultural knowledge, have a cultural knowledge pageant, not a beauty pageant. Etc.
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