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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Fred M. Sickler |
June 30, 1915 |
Shungnak |
Annual Report 1914 - 1915 |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/34-42.pdf |
| MS Ref: | [6-25] | Box: |
B1 |
| To: |
Bureau of Education | ||
| Eskimo Names: | Nauviksuk; Old Keetuk; Oregeeluk; | White Names: |
Walter Shields; Dr. Nichols; Louise M. Nichols; Lewis Lloyd; Izzy Provda; Thomas Shea; R.A. Hoare; W.T. Lopp; Mrs. Sickler; |
| Events: | Koyukuk Expedition; Koyukuk Indian Scare; European war; | Places: | Kotzebue; Point Hope; Kivalina; Kiana; Koyukuk; Oxsik; Ambler River; Reindeer Camp; the Selawik; Hotsprings; Kobuk River; Yukon; lower Yukon; Shungnak; |
| Perceptions: | "asked "Do you wish food?" according to the Eskimo custom; raven snapping his beak is a bad omen; some natives apt to consider a small school garden… as an attempt to force civilization on them; as a whole, quite honest; becoming less prompt in payment or debt and verbal agreements not kept as well as in the past;" | Treatment: | |
| Travel Themes: | Freight; suitable boat; break up; sea going schooner; high water; late freeze-up | Eskimo Trading |
cross fox and reindeer skins; white competitors; |
| Themes: | "dentist; Fred M. Sickler baby got cold in loft; Bureau of Education should have proper quarters in Kotzebue; storing freight in Kotzebue; "cheapness" of Bureau of Education; residence abandoned, repaired; cabin; houses plastered with clay from clay beds "I discovered" about one mile from village; used for houses in Kiana, cannery; work on the Koyukuk; families succeeded from Shungnak early 1913 and moved to mouth of Ambler, were persuaded to come back; native Friends in Oksik tried to persuade people from Shungnak to move to Oksik; School; Pupils; reindeer herd, sale on Koyukuk; practicing sorcery; Indian scare; village packed and ready to move downriver; scouts; "trade dance"; deer stampeded to hills; encounter with possible sorcerer; "Happy House"; Selawik herd; skins; annual resort to the hot springs; white people at the hot springs; Archdeacon; logs for church at Shungnak; postmaster, post office reestablished; cold frame, garden; late winter activities; 3 native companies successfully operating placer mines; diaries; crazy over tobacco; visiting reindeer camp; forwarding goods from Kotzebue; natives trading in Kotzebue; division of work during trapping season; greatly enjoyed music; industrial work; agriculture; cleanliness; fish traps and long seines at Kotzebue led to low supply of salmon; work on the Koyukuk; dietary changes; morals; Christian; reindeer diseases; potential reindeer market; herder quarrels; buildings; " | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
"wolves, two raids; low price of skins; small game; ice fishing; nearest point from which moose and caribou could be hunted; eating berries exposed by melting snow; low catch of whitefish; ptarmigan and grouse, low numbers; black bear; sheep; caribou; rabbits plentiful 30 miles from village; " |
| Business or Organization: |
"Bureau of Education; Friends; Robinson, Magids & Co; Department of Agriculture; Midnight Sun Packing Co.;" | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | "Alaska Experimental Station Bulletin; Farmers Bulletins;Kirkman's Sewing Practice; Superintendent of Documents, Washington , D.C.;" | Diseases & Infirmaties |
rickets: infantile paralysis; anemia; tuberculosis; badly frozen feet; rheumatism; |
| General Medical | I.Q.S.; Syrup Hypophosphites; | ||
| Comments: | "hot springs 40 miles south of here; Sickler's quote about traditional morality; wolf kill description, page 40;" |
