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| Author |
Date |
Location |
Subject |
URL |
| Chas. Replogle |
July 1, 1915 |
Unknown |
Annual Report for Deering |
http://ankn.uaf.edu/Resources/ReindeerFiles/1063-1072.pdf |
| MS Ref: | [12-85] [12-91] [12-92] [12-94] | Box: |
B1 |
| To: |
[Commissioner of Education] | ||
| Eskimo Names: | White Names: |
Mr. Shields; Mrs. Replogle; Henry Coffin (miner); D.W. Wentworth ▲; Mr. White; Dr. Nichols; Mr. Johnson; Mr. Lowman; |
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| Events: | Christmas; Reindeer Fair; | Places: | Kotzebue; Noatak; Noorvik; Noatak River; Kobuk River; Deering; Nome; Igloo; Goodhope; Imnachuk River; Good Hope River; Taylor Creek; Davidson's Landing; Serpentine Hot Springs; Humboldt River; |
| Perceptions: | "their minds can only take a limited amount of teaching…almost everything is abstract to them"; few girls insisted on wearing parkas in concession to the old ways of the people; people ossified by hundreds of years of life in the old time ruts;" | Treatment: | |
| Travel Themes: | sled routes Deering to Igloo and back; | Eskimo Trading |
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| Themes: | "relocation committee travelling to Noatak and Kobuk Rivers; Shields chooses between Kobuk and Noatak; reservation on the Kobuk; committee voted on name of village; Noorvik=transplanted; Deering cold storage plant; strong opposition to the move; carpentry; blacksmith work; cooking; required married women in village to practice baking at home; sewing; laundry, no wood; agriculture; mining; personal cleanliness; houses; at least 8 houses disassembled and moved to Noorvik; garbage; general sanitation, daily teaching; no decayed salmon eaten this year; secure such supplies as his new life demands; Shields' reindeer marketing plan question; reindeer meat processing; cold storage use; one herder dominating the market; freighting; use of dogs freighting; sled deer for freighting; law enforcement; considerable drunkenness; moral conditions; native women living with white men; old time subjects of conversation; Reindeer Fair activities and practices; Federation of the reindeer business; 5 recommendations;" | Trapping/Fishing/ Berry Picking |
"1 year in 4 we have any fish worth speaking about; this year was the big run;every available fish was taken; tomcod, wormy; seal, 60 - 80 mis. away; 3 times as many seal this year; abundance of rabbits, both small and large snow-shoe rabbits; scarce wild fowl; Empress goose; the sand-hill crane; less than 75 fox skins this year;" |
| Business or Organization: |
Ships, Boats, & Marine Equipment |
"Revenue Cutter "Bear" |
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| Books, Documents, & Articles: | "The Christmas Box";" | Diseases & Infirmaties |
scabies; 3 stillborn children; 12 y.o. fell 150 ft. and died; 30 y.o man died of heart disease; Bright's disease; premature baby; enlarged testes; dropsy; |
| General Medical | |||
| Comments: | "original 5 people to mark the Kobuk site; 60 mis. Inland in timber; making baskets with "Eskimo patterns" to the frustration of the missionary/teachers; reindeer to feed and clothe family; Finstead: Federation of reindeer business;" |
