Reindeer Files Database
| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Eli M. Myers |
June 30, 1909 |
Shungnak |
Annual School Report, Year Ending June 30, 1909 |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/105-115.pdf |
| MS Ref: | Box: |
B1 |
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| To: |
[Commissioner of Education] | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Riley Jim Woods; | White Names: |
US Commissioner M.F. Moran; Mike Furley; Mr. Young; Ned Ragan (criminal); A.N. Evans; W.T. W.T. Lopp; Bertha Cox; Mr. and Mrs. York; Mrs Myers; Pauline; Lewis Lloyd; Frank Knight; Ace Wilcox; Tom Shey; |
| Events: | murder trial in Nome; Natives "on strike"; | Places: | Shungnak; Nome; Kotzebue; Candle; Deering; Kivalina; Hortham [sic] Inlet; the Kobuk;Squirrel River; Ambler River; |
| Perceptions: | Treatment: | ||
| Travel Themes: | dangerous water, very shallow; sandbar at mouth of Kobuk river, waves 4-6 feet high; low water 50-60 miles from mouth, unloaded, Mrs. Myers and Pauline took skin boat upriver; launch took supplies; building supplies cached; 50-60 miles further, bar blocked way, waited for ice;Mrs. Myers frozen in 100 miles further upriver; Mr. Myers walks overland, bogs most difficult ever; freight cached; switched to dogteam, ice weak, travelled overland with 4 inches snow, much walking; | Eskimo Trading |
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| Themes: | left Shungnak June 22, 1908; expected return to Shungnak September 10; arrived Shungnak October 10; 125 Natives waiting; 7 of 10 white men are squaw men, making the Myers work hard; malicious men; petition for removal; work on buildings; attendance and home visits; 20-25 Natives working in mining camps; salaries; | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
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| Business or Organization: |
Bureau of Education; mission board; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | Diseases & Infirmaties |
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| General Medical | |||
| Comments: | "125 natives" waiting for Myerses; "snares and pitfalls"; 8 days to get downriver; Kotzebue to Candle/Deering 100 miles; Bertha Cox very energetic; jouney Kotzebue to Shungnak, 310 miles; Furley and Moran kind to us; Ace Wilcox and Tom Shey with native women; Shey not supporting half-breed child; |
