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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Fred M. Sickler |
June 30, 1919 |
Shungnak |
"Annual Report for the School Year Ending June 30, 1919 |
| MS Ref: | [13-77] | Box: |
NARA |
| To: |
Commissioner of Education | ||
| Eskimo Names: | White Names: |
Mrs. Sickler; |
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| Events: | Places: | Kotzebue; Kobuk; Kivalina; Pt. Hope; Noatak River; Colville River;Dahl Creek; California Creek; Shungnak Creek; Riley Creek; the Kobuk; Noorvik; Shungnak; | |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | "natives piloting; boat building and designing; break-up exceptionally early, May 15, village not flooded;;" | Eskimo Trading |
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| Themes: | "summary of monthly work; native homesteads; military registration; Sickler's unoffical titles; Oct. preparations for winter; Oct. social life, [feasting], dancing; spirits depressed by rumours of war and influenza; violation of game laws; spring 1919 natives left village earlier than usual due to food scarcity , influenza, spring break-up; considerable work mining; medical; gardening; seeds; summer of 1919 worst for gardening in 10 years; native village council quite effective in government; no assault; sexual immorality; divorce; trial marriage; over 10 year period morals steadily improving; signs of civilization: comments on housing, furniture, household goods; skills of young men and women; village lacks developed resources; village floods each spring, wipes away improvements, moving village difficult; natives feel they should get same govt. help as Noorvik, feel slighted; natives politicking for improvements, like Noorvik has; equipment furnished Noorvik demoralizing for nearby schools; assistant teacher; 3 native mining companies X 3 years; natives chief source of labor for mining operator crews X 15 years; currently , 12 natives steadily employed at mines; native mining camps; Shungnak reindeer herd same size as 12 years ago/2 herds/constant dissatisfaction /owner - herder conflicts/Shungnak natives benefitted much from the herds; natives took great interest in war events; no representation in legislature/different race and color/laws made no difference in their response/"we all belong to Uncle Sam"; a number of young men members of Quaker church, made no claim for exemption, great interest by young men to be ready to fight for country; comments on teaching in English and Eskimo; interpreters; communicating with children and elders; half-breeds; no white men in this village except those that live on the creeks and hang around the stores; reading; arithematic; geography; sanitation; industrial; music; local missionary/church music; Christmas entertainment; drawing; play all day when the days get longer; schoolroom; " | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
"sheep; caribou; fall bear hunt at Kobuk headwaters; end of Sept. women digging roots, picking berries, fish in cold storage; high price of muskrat pelts in spring;" |
| Business or Organization: |
Department of Agriculture; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
"U.S.S. "Bear";" |
| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
"influenza; quarantine; Oct. 1918 a number of people had influenza, no deaths; tuberculosis, 3 deaths; 4 births; cathartics; iodine; eye waters; cuts/sores dressed; object to tonics, medicines taken at regular intervals; chronic lameness; headaches; abscesses; severe dog bite; recurrent erycipelas; native council established quarantine during influenza epidemic, provided wood/food/tents/guards/dog feed for travelors; " |
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| General Medical | "health quite good on account of quarantine; medication use; native doctors; germ theory of disease well understood; sick often cared for in small igloos away from the families living quarter, old Eskimo custom;" | ||
| Comments: | correlate to Sickler's work with Oceanside police; relocation of Shungnak; |
