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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Mr. and Mrs. Sickles |
June 30, 1912 |
Selawik |
Annual Report |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/250-264.pdf |
| MS Ref: | [I-2] [7-11] [7-18] [10-6] | Box: |
B1 |
| To: |
A.N. Evans | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Thomas Illyok; Jimmie Oliluk; Mike; | White Names: |
Ellsworth Stoney; Dr. Neuman; W.T. Lopp; Walter Shields; |
| Events: | Places: | Selawik; Kotzebue; Selawik Lake; Buckland River; Kivalina; Kiana; Shungnak; Yukon; Kobuk River; | |
| Perceptions: | native traditional dance practice in preparation for the visit of the Yukon Indians was considered by teacher to be idleness; superstitious natives prefer old devil doctor to medicine; | Treatment: | |
| Travel Themes: | weather and wind bad [August? ] | Eskimo Trading |
Trade dance; card playing; dancing; gambling; liquor; |
| Themes: | "preparation for winter; schoolhouse banked; trade dance with Yukon Indians, February, at Selawik, expected since December, left in February; trade dance included liquor and gambling, kept quiet at first, lost best months for hunting and trapping; new cabins; white man's window being substituted for native's skin window; shop, tools; gasoline engine the best for power; windmill; plans for new school building; reindeer for cold storage; did not try gardening again; shed for sled deer; marsh hay; native cooperative plan; reindeer; overstocked market for Kotzebue and Kivalina reindeer herds, meat sold <10c/pound; [Page 12: music; sewing;]; industrial work; Jimmie Oliluk transferred to Shungnak; mail route; sanitary conditions; "they need frequent advising or even threatenings to keep somewhere near clean"; wood; April/May/June darkened with forest fires from Kiana mining camp;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
fishing; trapping; rabbits; sheefish; muskrats; fox; mink; lynx; |
| Business or Organization: |
Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
convulsions; sores; |
|
| General Medical | commend Dr. Neuman for his medical letters; sweat baths; tonics; parents will not have children take medicine against their wish; medicines; devil doctor; | ||
| Comments: | "Page 12 missing, on Western Microfilm, Roll 1, page 486; Yukon Indians; $1 for 3 muskrats; "parkies"; CORRELATION: Na-shook; CORRELATION: Shields' comment on native dance;" |
