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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Charles. D. Jones & Lydia Ikik |
June 30, 1913 |
Shungnak |
Sixth Annual School Report for Shungnak |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/77-101.pdf |
| MS Ref: | Box: |
B1 |
|
| To: |
"P.P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education" | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Ko-pat-kok; Riley Jim (Sho-no-ko); Yukon Charlie (Ko-pat-kok); Lydia Sheldon Ikik; Tommy Par-uk; Jimmie Oo-re-gel-yuk (Chief Herder); | White Names: |
Capt. John Backland; Mr. Blane; G.P. Marshall; Dr. Barbour; Walter Shields; |
| Events: | Thanksgiving feast; Christmas festival cancelled bacause of epidemic; marriage of Lydia and Jimmie; | Places: | Shungnak station; Teller; Kotzebue; Kobuk River; Arctic Ocean; Candle; Sealing Point; Oksik; Kotzebue Sound; |
| Perceptions: | "in this work, there is no such thing as privacy; they are more humane in their manner of handling dogs and feed them better than they did in their aboriginal state; too practical in some ways, pretty flowers and trees have a significant influence on the children, make cabins more homelike; " | Treatment: | |
| Travel Themes: | "water in river too rapid for boat, load divided, passengers off; poor service on the River for government teachers/supplies; boats built #18;" | Eskimo Trading |
Exhorbitant wages; bargaining for wages; |
| Themes: | "materials for new residence; work on buildings; first snow Sept. 20, river set in Oct.22; social entertainment important; proper entertainment and reception important for older people; if it fills a need, into the service it goes; to keep in touch and sympathy; natives made arrangements to live in Shungnak; more natives than before; 7-point Policy; non-sectarianism; distrust, loss of faith; schoolwork; cooking for miners and traders; basketry a new industry for the Kobuk people; reading vs. comprehension; boy with broken leg, 3 surgeries, died; dog teams; recommendations; sanitation, cleanliness, and hygiene; garbage disposal; natives very dependent upon the teacher in every move they make; cabins in the community; native dog teams; better relations with miners this year; agriculture; reindeer industry; harnesses and training improved with Jimmie Orealuk's leadership; native work as miners and pilots; statistics; 40 native cabins in community, built 5 this year; population 242; recommendations; assistant teacher who would be willing to enter into the social life of the community; U.S.Commissioner be placed on salary rather than commision system, natives do not get fair treatment; school near Oksik for people on Lower Kobuk;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
"hurried fishing and berry-picking to start school on time; rabbits; muskrats; fish;sea lions; hair seals; ptarmigan; cranberries; blueberries; description of yearly activities, bottom of page 98 and top of page 99;" |
| Business or Organization: |
Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
"schooner "Alaskan" |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | "Wade and Sylvester's Primer; Baldwin's First Reader; Three Little Kittens; Overall Boys; Baldwin's Speller; Baldwin's Second Reader; Around the World; Baldwin's Third Reader; Heath's Fourth Reader; "The School City" by Mr. Wilson L. Gill;" | Diseases & Infirmaties |
la grippe epidemic; tubercular origin; syphilis; broken leg above knee; tubercular meningitis; chopped forefinger off; |
| General Medical | "extermination of the race within very few years; operation; quarantine; epidemic; far from physicians and hospitals; epidemic disheartened parents interest in educational system, wanted to move away; hospital at Kotzebue;" | ||
| Comments: | "Ko-pat-kok owned placer mine; page 84: a picture of Joneses philosophy as teachers among the natives; Page(s) missing: page 15, 18; one paragraph of page 15 and all of page 18 on Western Microfilm roll R_01_BIA; Jimmie Orealuk made trip north with superintendent for last three years; extinction of the Eskimo" |
