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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Chas. N. Replogle |
June 30, 1916 |
[Noorvik] |
"Annual Report for School Year Ending June 30, 1916 |
| MS Ref: | [12-148] [12-150] | Box: |
NARA |
| To: |
Commissioner of Education | ||
| Eskimo Names: | White Names: |
Mrs. Replogle; Miss Hill; |
|
| Events: | Places: | Kiana; Oksick; Deering; Seward Peninsula; Noorvik; | |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | village above high water mark; | Eskimo Trading |
advice from Kobuk natives on getting logs; |
| Themes: | "Nov. 1 natives began construction of their meeting house, would also be the schoolhouse until new schoolhouse built, description; schoolhouse done by Nov. 15; school work; 400 natives for Christmas entertainment; food scarce by end of April; bills to be paid by muskrat pelts caught in spring; road needed from river to village; sawmill, location; strenuous time getting winter provisions as we had arrived late; housing; lumber; 52 log houses built this year, 2 igloos; native work on buildings; "free work", a new department in the native curriculum; enrollment 91, no ave. attendance; carpentry; boat building; barter goods; value of teaching parents; parental influence strong, hard to overbalance; 7 men in mining, wages ave. $2.50/day and board; gardening; gardening at Oksik last year; sewing, clothing and footwear depend on the women and girls; cooking, bread made for Reindeer Fair; cleanliness and sanitation, 2 women talked with 13 women in their homes, 5 talked back; reindeer industry, 4 herds, moss here not so good, 1 herd near Kiana for meat for the mines; elected commissioners, new territorial law, no serious infractions; 4 young people married then separated deliberately and permanently, some of men punished for breaking the law but cannot remarry and live a respectable life, "living in open shame", only men jailed, women usually to blame but not punished; our treatment is to move them along to other parts; supplementary stock to trade for skins to have adequate supplies for the winter, barter goods; Reindeer Fair very successful; lighting system, gasolene not coal; Noorvik far ahead of scattered villages;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
muskrat; fish traps; |
| Business or Organization: |
Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
"pneumonia epidemic; skin disease; enlarged glands of the neck; assured lung infection; puerperal fever, poor midwifery; " |
|
| General Medical | hospital at Kotzebue; medicines provided in school of untold benefit to the people; | ||
| Comments: | "food was scarce; late in getting winter provisions; contrast to Shields' comments re parky; "very little above the animal"; important: punishment of traditional moral perspectives;" |
