Reindeer Files Database
| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Andrew N. Evans |
January 20, 1909 |
Kobuk [Region] |
Conditions on the Kobuk |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/1859-1862.pdf |
| MS Ref: | Box: |
B1 |
|
| To: |
Commissioner of Education | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Okitkoon (Chief Herder, Shungnak); | White Names: |
Eli M. Myers; |
| Events: | Places: | Shungnak; Salmon River; Kotzebue; Unalakleet; Deering; Washington; Selawik; | |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | launches and scows frozen in down river about 150 mis. in mid-Sept.; | Eskimo Trading |
|
| Themes: | "cheap freighting"; some freight left down river; teachers living in school building;"hip-roofed" house; female deer in payment for logs; "private" freight carried for less cost than government freight; all Natives occupy new cabins; Natives are "proud of herd"; so much of region burned over; carelessly leaving campfires, or fires started to drive away mosquitoes; Eli M. Myers respected on the river but deficient in scholarship; Mrs. Myers constantly in schoolroom; Mrs. Myers under contract with Friends; | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
|
| Business or Organization: |
Keewalik Lighterage Co.; Friends Mission Society; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
the "North Bend" |
| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
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| General Medical | |||
| Comments: | "village is laid out in lots, and all the Natives occupy new cabins": This is similar to William Duncan's Metlakatla colony; |
