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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Raymond A. Bates |
September 13, 1912 |
Kivalina |
Status update |
| MS Ref: | [6-1] [6-2] [6-4] | Box: |
B2 |
| To: |
Walter C. Shields | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Jack; Daniel Nakak; Paul; | White Names: |
Margaret E. Bates; Paul Davidivics; James H. Maguire; |
| Events: | Places: | Kivalina; Wainwright; Kotzebue; St. Lawrence; Nome; | |
| Perceptions: | most natives come to church to crow; | Treatment: | |
| Travel Themes: | oomiaks; whaleboats; heavy breakers; | Eskimo Trading |
|
| Themes: | "waiting to leave Kivalina; winter residences inland; ventilators; pictures; Kodak supplies; one year ago, lifted off the wharf at Nome; learned that there are other customs, other ways, un-American things, that have good in them; cultural awareness relevant to language: mission of the government teacher not to strive to supplant but to broaden and deepen the native mode of expression; the council met re: dancing in Jack's igloo; judgment: no dancing in Jack's igloo, other igloos in which to dance; Jack's misbehavior and consequences; speak one way in church and another way in the igloo; grass now brown and dead; post-script to twins; circus metaphor; 3 months sentence for adultery; Maguire landed OK;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
fishing; berrying; ptarmigan; |
| Business or Organization: |
Sesnon Co.; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
"the "Bear"; the "Transit";" |
| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
consumption; tuberculosis; |
|
| General Medical | talk on tuberculosis; | ||
| Comments: | wrote out Lord's prayer in Eskimo; |
