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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Fred M. Sickler |
June 30, 1913 |
Pt. Hope |
"Annual School Report, Year 1912-1913 |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/192-202.pdf |
| MS Ref: | [2-54] [5-28] [7-5] [8-34] [8-35] [8-37] [10-18] [13-5] | Box: |
B1 |
| To: |
Commissioner of Education | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Elektoona; Dick Agasina; | White Names: |
Captain Backland; Tom Berryman; Dr. Neuman; Walter Shields; A.N. Evans; Mrs. Sickler; Mr. Maguire; |
| Events: | Places: | Pt. Hope; Kivalina; Tigara;Pt. Barrow; Wainwright; Noatak; Kotzebue; Cape Prince of Wales; Nome; Selawik; Shungnak; Icy Cape; | |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | Eskimo Trading |
"full of lies, tricks and bad faith", "butter and dainties"; "unlimited trust"; most natives owe stores; native storekeepers; " |
|
| Themes: | "average attendance 17, doubled in whaling season; resident and visiting pupils; attended in violent blizzards, some travelling 1/2 mile; correlation and concentration; friendly and just toward all races; have entire good will of children and parents; required each pupil to write diary;English; pidgeon English and ship-talk; cooking; sewing; sanitary conditions; housess; financial condition; 20 years prosperity due to high price of whale-bone, $8/pound, now price is 50c./pound; items made for white trade; little wage work in Pt. Hope; morals; visit from officials; mission school; medical service; reindeer work; death of a number of foxes, reindeer and reindeer dogs, possibly rabies; recommendations for improvement of reindeer, now degenerating;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
whale-bone; fox; fish plentiful; large number of seals taken; |
| Business or Organization: |
Episcopal Mission of St. Thomas; Friends Church; Department of Justice; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
"Revenue Cutter "Bear" |
| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Materia Medica | Diseases & Infirmaties |
pistol shot; rabies; |
| General Medical | "medicines; "practical" drugs; equipment; vital statistics; complaints about medical recommendations vs.supplies; " | ||
| Comments: | Page(s) missing: pgs. 4 and 5: missing pages on BIA Annual Report 1912-1913; comments on page 198 may be related to Sickler's latter claim of being U.S. Marshall; rich oomaliks considered Elektoona to be a poor man; relate to Bates and cow parsnip; |
