"My wife woke me up suddenly around 5 this morning and said our daughter had hung herself," he wrote. "We all rushed into her room - she wasn't breathing. We lifted her up and cut off the wire cord of a hair dryer. We loosened the cord around her neck as fast we possibly could. Her brothers held her, with head back, and kept talking to her. We caught her just in time - few seconds more, we would have lost her." Read the full letter at The Tundra Drums site.
Tucker gained statewide attention in early 2009 with a letter to government officials describing the effects of the food-and-fuel crisis in villages.
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