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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Leslie G. Sickles |
June 30, 1911 |
Selawik |
Annual Report |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/231-249.pdf |
| MS Ref: | [2-53] [2-55] [5-36] [7-12] | Box: |
B1 |
| To: |
A.N. Evans | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Jimmie; Iglivalook; | White Names: |
Mrs. Sickles; A.N. Evans; C.W. Hawkesworth; |
| Events: | Thanksgiving; Xmas; | Places: | Selawik; Kotzebue; Kobuk; Candle; Deering; Shungnak; Selawik Lake; Buckland Bay; Barrow; Seattle; |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | "building large sailboats, rowboats, hunting boats; ice goes out of river June 1, the lake, July 1; " | Eskimo Trading |
|
| Themes: | "in summer, natives to Kotzebue to fish or trade, to mountains to hunt; housing; never saw such interest given in the schoolroom; progress in 3 years schooling, English, arithmetic; "only recently white traders were buying skins with value from $3-$5 for a 10c piece of tobacco"; teachers unpopular with traders; geography; reading; grammar;corrupted English/Eskimo language, spoken by whalers/traders/miners; spelling; sanitation; tobacco use, imitating white men's vices; law against tobacco use and possession; industrial work; agriculture work, efforts utterly failed due to climate/soil conditions; playing the organ; destitution fund; wood fund; can't buy ammunition at Candle, even with money; high water, fish traps not a success, many dogs died; new game law re muskrats, worked a hardship; reindeer; C.W. Hawkesworth visit to village and reindeer camp; reindeer management;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
fish; hunt; cranberries; ptarmigan; rabbits; sheefish; seal; fish traps; muskrats; |
| Business or Organization: |
Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
hunting boats; |
|
| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
tuberculosis; partially paralyzed; |
|
| General Medical | care for very sick child; sent to Candle/Deering for better medical treatment; hope to finish the Eskimo hospital this summer; | ||
| Comments: | "Pages 3 and 19 missing; Page 3 and 19 are found on Western Microfilm files (R_01_BIA, page 456 & 472), but only page 19 is readable; rabbits 8 for a Dollar;"Seattle" and Iglivalook" on page 19 from Western Microfilm, roll 1, page approx. 472; Selawik reindeer boys;" |
