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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| [Clarence Ausley] |
June 30, 1915 |
Noatak |
"Annual Report" |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/394-418.pdf |
| MS Ref: | Box: |
B1 |
|
| To: |
Commissioner of Education | ||
| Eskimo Names: | White Names: |
Dr. and Mrs. Nichols; Walter Shields; |
|
| Events: | "a social at the school building for all the natives; Thanksgiving and Christmas meal preparation, gifts, decorations ; New Year's Eve celebration;" | Places: | Noatak; Seattle; Nome; Kotzebue; Bering Strait; Missouri; Sealing Point; the Outside; |
| Perceptions: | "always striving to live more like white people"; "dirty methods of living"; grasping every opportunity to make a better living; ambitious to live as white people do; " | Treatment: | |
| Travel Themes: | "many severe storms reaching Nome; Kotzebue to Noatak; small launch; skin boat; low water; 1 month Seattle to Kotzebue; freight shipments; River too shallow after Oct. 1;dogs and deer can travel after middle of November; trails soft after April 1; need for better transportaion facilities; "enormous prices" for freighting; " | Eskimo Trading |
market for salmon; |
| Themes: | "trip to Noatak; building maintenance; clean-up, garbage disposal; housing; "white man's igloo… Eskimo wants all the same"; dogs; mukky salmon; encouraging diet; average enrollment 33; required to speak English; primer topics foreign to Eskimo child; schoolwork; industrial work; sewing; tools; cleanliness; barber work; hygiene; sanitation; home visits; children's school duties; church work; store owned by merchant in Kotzebue; water supply; fuel, timber; climate; medicines sent with travelling natives; reindeer business; Shields' and Dr. Nichols' visit in late February; " | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
"successful fishing; salmon; salmon trout , traps or hooks; trapping; low price of skins; ammunition; traders refuse to give credit; hunting; seal; sea lions; children " |
| Business or Organization: |
Friend's Church; United States Government; | Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
"steamer "Victoria"; U.S. mail boat "Silver Wave";" |
| Books, Documents, & Articles: | "Barnes "Elementary History"; " | Diseases & Infirmaties |
colds; eye and stomach trouble; senile decay; tuberculosis; croup; |
| General Medical | "alcohol and tobacco; "little knife to bleed themselves"; bandages; antiseptics; cathartics; cough syrup;" | ||
| Comments: | "fumigate (sulfur and chloronaptholeum); "our natives are gradually achieving economic independence"; "make a better living"; mucky salmon; Normal Training Schools of Missouri; "reindeer boys"; reindeer industry;" |
