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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| John W. Wise |
February 8, 1911 |
Shungnak |
Bad conditions at Shungnak |
| MS Ref: | Box: |
NARA |
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| To: |
Charles Hawkesworth | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Kobuk Mike; Charlie Coffin; John Sheldon; Anna Sheldon; Riley Jim; Sun; | White Names: |
Moran; Lewis Berry; Myers; Sickler; |
| Events: | Places: | Nome; Squirrel River; Keller; | |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | Eskimo Trading |
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| Themes: | "copy of letter to District Judge included; "serious matters up here"; Moran here a few days ago, gave them the game law, also had a right to build a church wherever they wanted to but advised not to build; he divorced 2 couples while here; told them "to throw .. wife away and get...another one"; Myers advised Kobuk Mike not to throw her away; Moran had no right to divorce them; Sickler got involved; funeral, sudden death while playing football; Sicklers returned after funeral, very angry, gave boisterous, accusatory speech [to Myers] speech, gestures with fist; Anna Sheldon took with "nervous prostation", she screamed, Sickler giving orders, some scared; Sickler laughed at concerns about immorality; Moran friend to crooked ones; dance while Judge here and one since left; nothing done with Sun; " | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
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| Business or Organization: |
Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
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| General Medical | |||
| Comments: |
