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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| [Ebenezer Evans] |
June 30, 1916 |
Selawik |
"Annual Report for School Year Ending June 30, 1916 |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/272-282.pdf |
| MS Ref: | [7-15] | Box: |
B1 |
| To: |
[Commissioner of Education] | ||
| Eskimo Names: | White Names: |
Dr. Nichols; Miss Hunnicutt; |
|
| Events: | Reindeer Fairs; Noorvik Fair; | Places: | Selawik River; Kotzebue; Selawik; Noorvik; |
| Perceptions: | "love to sing; fondness of public speaking; children not advancing as quickly as in other villages, parents more isolated; Eskimo boys love to work with tools;" | Treatment: | |
| Travel Themes: | Eskimo Trading |
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| Themes: | "natives want to move school, village unfortunately situated;no game within miles; trapping days from village; description of difficult environment for village; limited contact with white men; trappers deeply in debt, lifetime to get out; how government should work with villagers; Eskimo meeting; law not equitable; little consideration for Eskimo in local courts; morality; physical condition; no deaths; sewing; carpentry; gardening; new cabins not encouraged, better to move village; terrible storms last January, unprecedented high water in the spring; heavy fall of snow, lots of traps lost; lost muskrats due to delayed spring; "mukki salmon"; cleanliness and sanitation; heavy soap use; singing; reindeer affairs, diseases; herders all young men; wish an old man could be recruited to give stability to herders; new zest in work after Noorvik Fair; description of benefits of Reindeer Fair; thanks to Miss Hunnicutt, resident missionary; recommendations: change muskrat season, establish government store, Selawik on mail route;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
trapping and hunting; ducks; fish; muskrats; salmon; |
| Business or Organization: |
Reindeer Service; Friends Church; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
|
| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
"tuberculosis; hereditary sickness; stomach trouble; coughs; colds; insanity, none, at least among the natives;" |
|
| General Medical | "salol; native doctor came to teacher when wife sick; Dr. Nichols examined many older people and all children; "the word "bacteria" an inspiration";" | ||
| Comments: | Page(s) Missing: 2 [not on Western Microfilm]; village of Selawik 10 miles from the mouth; desks screwed to floor; |
