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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Fred M. Sickler |
June 30, 1911 |
Shungnak |
"Annual Report for Year Ending June 30, 1911 |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/47-76.pdf |
| MS Ref: | [5-32] [6-26] [6-31] [6-33] [10-3] [12-124] | Box: |
B1 |
| To: |
Bureau of Education | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Jacob Johnson; Harry John; Joe Frost; Herman Tickett; Frankie Snell; | White Names: |
Mrs. Sickler; |
| Events: | Places: | "Shungnak; Koyukuk River; Squirrel River; Black River; Outside; Washington, D.C.; Kotzebue; " | |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | "18 boats completed, "a number" sold;" | Eskimo Trading |
|
| Themes: | "suppression of innocent native pasttimes; unfair division of mission goods; considerable number of children died since school established; local missionary told parents schoolwork would give children less than 7 y.o. brain fever; older children allowed at mission during school hours, singing songs, receiving candies; truants; corporal punishment; May, scarcity of food; white child in the school; vices of an Outside country school; girls and boys winking; "bad habits"; criticisms of previous teacher; children and criticism; reading vs. comprehension; Core Theory of Ziller and DeGarmo; writing; spelling; learning English; arithematic; missionaries and traders charging exorbitant prices; geography; patriotism foreign to Eskimo, never had a country or flag; hygiene; manual training; sewing; cooking; missionary and former teacher had lucrative bakery in the village; agriculture; music; employment in mines; income sources; cleanliness; morals; after missionary left, I conducted religious services for the natives twice a week; scrap wood gone for 4 mile radius; reindeer; caribou; selective breeding; castration; grubs; medicine; problems with previous missionaries;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
"return from hunting, October; Jan.-Feb. - marten trapping; wild fowl, fish, Black River, June; red, white, blue, and cross fox;mink; ermine; muskrat; salmon; ususally make < $100/year trapping; over 100 caribou and mountain sheep; over 1 dozen black and brown bear; hunting grounds far distant;" |
| Business or Organization: |
Montgomery Ward & Co.; Sitka Experiment Station; Bureau of Agriculture; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Book No. 1 for Non-English Speaking People; | Diseases & Infirmaties |
consumption; heart failure; |
| General Medical | mortality rate; | ||
| Comments: | reindeer boys; |
