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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Chas. N. Replogle |
June 30, 1917 |
Noorvik |
"Annual Report for School Year Ending June 30, 1917 |
| MS Ref: | Box: |
NARA |
|
| To: |
Commissioner of Education | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Lydia Orealuk; | White Names: |
Delbert Replogle; May Replogle; Walter C. Shields; |
| Events: | Places: | Deering; the Kobuk; Kiana; Noorvik; Seattle; Nome; Nulato; | |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | Eskimo Trading |
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| Themes: | "two extremes of Eskimo character; one, slow thinking less intellectual coast natives from Deering; large part of village filled natives from along the Kobuk, more intellectual but slow to adopt new things here out of curiousity but rapidly advancing in civilization; school organization; enrollment 108, no ave. attendance; wireless station and its great advantages; teaching electricity; mercantile business, 2 native men; store in village imperative; governed by 5 commissioners/laws/property rights/care of dogs/public duties/sanitary measures/morality/taxes; tower clock; sanitation/lectures/fines/activities; dress; 1st wireless message to Nome Nov. 27; " | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
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| Business or Organization: |
United States government; Army; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
|
| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
tubercular troubles; chronic eye troubles; repeated snow blindness; |
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| General Medical | "need for hospital; church appointed "sick committee"; " | ||
| Comments: | "dramatic statement of move and wireless effects; natives built the schoolhouse; "balancing of the native custom against new knowledge", correlate with Sickler comments in later Annual Reports; fines for inadequate adherence to sanitation rules; inculcate: "unclean native"; "as the voice of God to him" |
