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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| C.W. Hawkesworth |
May 31, 1911 |
Nome |
Report to Commissioner |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/1816-1826.pdf |
| MS Ref: | [3-40] [3-41] [4-10] [9-20] [10-7] [10-11] [10-21] | Box: |
B1 |
| To: |
[Commissioner of Education] | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Ahneevuk; Ahlook; Jimmie; Shoudla; Hannah Geary; Takpuk; Mr. Kilbuck (lower 48 native); Peter Audlaksauk; Harry Keginek; Alice Ahlook; Annie Goodlalook; | White Names: |
Dr. Driggs; Charles McIntosh; A.N. Evans; W.T. W.T. Lopp; Mr. Geary; Mrs. Geary; Mr. Fellows; Mr. Shaver; Mr. Sinclair; Mr. Cram; Mrs. Cram; Alexander; Dr. Marsh; |
| Events: | Places: | Pt. Hope; Cape Lisburne; Alaska; Icy Cape; Point Lay; Kotzebue; Pt. Barrow; the Noatak; the Kobuk; Wainwright; Nome; Barrow; Chicago; Wales; Seattle; | |
| Perceptions: | "if a man died with lice on his body, Jesus would not let him come into heaven"; "the Bible forbids dancing"; " the Bible says you must not use tobacco"; Eskimo drills to welcome visitors compare favorably with best gymnastics exhibitions; Barrow a dirty village;" | Treatment: | |
| Travel Themes: | stormiest place on the coast; deer travelled well; 6 mph gait; patched damaged sled; worst winter for many years; | Eskimo Trading |
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| Themes: | "Driggs makes new village at Cape Lisburne; advance many of them goods to get them to move; people dissatisfied; couldn't get men to work for him in his whale boats; held school sometimes; anthracite coal withn 1 mile of village; houses cold; white man's dirt (teachers); coal mine; "Pt. Barrow Eskimo translated"; mid-week meeting; no hunting during school; hunter punished, camp worked up; Geary's Irish brogue; Geary's serious blunder; Mrs Geary reindeer superintendent; Geary's whaling; common along coast to hear teachers just like storemen; let adults in schoolroom go, keep children; schoolhouse poorly built, no weight can be put on 2nd floor; Mrs. Geary prize system; records; only 7 igloos at Icy Cape this year; herders want to move herds to lagoons along coast; School City Bank Idea implemented at Barrow; trade dance; Wainwright, one family cooking walrus skin for food; demonstration of Eskimo sharing; public confession of sin; apprentice trouble; Tartan, pregnant collie dog, left in Wainwright with herd, other dog for Barrow "to supply the herd"; Cram's "best school in Alaska"; more natives moving to Barrow every year; missionaries/teachers haven't promoted cleanliness; important village of the coast; tools not cared for by teacher; " | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
bear hunt; whaling; fur prices low ($6 for No. 1 skin); foxes; seal; February best fox hunting time in Wainwright; tomcod scarce; walrus hunts; |
| Business or Organization: |
Alaska School Service; Moody's School (Chicago); | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
man in need of leg amputation; |
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| General Medical | |||
| Comments: | "reindeer boys; Takpuk's place used to be an "old Eskimo village"." |
