Plane Hunters Get Polar Bears;
Native Hunters Get None
I By CHARLIE TUCKFIELD
ff Times Staff Writer
POINT HOPE (Specul) — Seal
bunting this year was as good aa
last year, lots of seals. I have.killed
as much as I need, and so has every
one.
But for polar bears, I hate to tell
you that news. There were so many
planes here this year that the polar
bears did not come near our shore.
They were reported 100 miles off
shore. That's the nearest they ever
Came this year. None of our people
here killed a polar bear. Tracks were
not even seen.
No Chance
I have covered a good many miles
by dogteam to search for polar bear.
But I finally had to give it up. There
were no chances, with 13 planes
hunting out of here. Sure enough the
bear hunters have killed as many
as they want.
From 2 to 4 bears were brought
in a lot of time by the plane hunt
ers. We sure hated that, but nothing
the village could do about it. Of
course, some people make a few
dollars from the bear hunters, but
not enough to grub stake a' month.
Lost Income
Polar bear has been our biggest
Cash income in our village from
years past. Bat this year it wasn’t.
Seal has. been our biggest cash in
come for the past couple of years.
We hope that things will change,
but to me it looks worse every year.
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Now for whaling. In March,
whalers were so busy covering their
wood frame 24-foot umiaks, with
oogruk raw hides.
Each umiak take six oQgruks to
cover the works, all six are sewn
together by woman sewers. When i
the skinboat is finished, it's taken l
outside to be dried by wind and sun, ]
and to be sun-tanned.
When each umiak is finished, the
captain's wife passes around cand
ies and bubble gum to the kids, I
Which is the custom, for good luck. I
Six Bowheads
There were six whales killed this
spring, the first one by Amos Lane,
i On 29th of April three were killed,
one each by Tony Webber, Hubert
Kinnaveak, and Allen Rock. It sure
was work that day.
And a week later two more were
killed again on the same day, one
by Tony Webber and one by Roy
Vincent. It sure was another labor
day.
Most all ice cellars are pretty well
supplied with muktuk now. Four
thousand pounds of muktuk have
been sold to Nome, and 1,200 pounds
to Barrow. It was good to have a
little money.
We have had lot of visitors from
Noatak and Kivalina, by dogteam.
They have gotten a share of the
muktuk too.
Eskimo life is real good life. Most
all people here are real friendly.
Everyone is always welcome to our
village.
891 Students
Enrolled At
15 Schools .
A total of 891 students have en
rolled at 15 Bureau of Indian Af*
fairs Schools in central and north
ern Alaska.
Arctic Village has 27 students;
Barrow, 417; Barter Island, 30; Beav
er, 35; Chalkyitsik, 19; Eagle, 18;
Galena, 48; Kaltag, 51; Minto, 51;
Northway, 29; Stevens Village, 23;
Tanacross, 21; Tetlin, 30; Venetie,
38; and Wainwriahi, 44.
Reports have not been made of
enrollments at Birch Creek and
Canyon Village schools.
Approximately 25 principal teach
ers and adult education teachers
are employed at the schools.
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Unbelievable-But It's True
By GUY OKAKOK
Contributing Editor
Back in 1927 or 1928, I was told
by a young man in Herschel Island
that a person wanted to see me very
badly. I did not know who he was or
where he was staying as I was a
new stranger there in the Island.
I said to the young man if he
could show me where the person
lived, then I would go meet him.
When we entered his lodge, the
man asked me if, I’m the stranger.
“Why yes,” 1 answered him.
I asked him why he wanted to see
me and he asked if I had ever heard
his name mentioned before. I an
swered him that I had. He said he
was Angugalook and that he was
from Natchelik (meaning where
there's seals).
He said the reason why we wanted
to see me was a rumor going about
among the people in Barrow. He
said I may not like it or not, but
there are people who would not
come close to him because they
were afraid.
In 1929 the Hudson Bay Company
transferred me to Cambridge Bay
where Eskimos live who I can
hardly understand their language.
I was still an interpreter for the
company.
While we were eating our supper,
a man came in, and right away I
recognized him, Angugalook, whom
I had talked to before in Herschel.
After we had a long talk, he went
out and I told my boss about An
gugalook, that he was a medicine
man and my boss told me to. bring
him in. 1 did bring Angugalook that
night.
My boss told Angugalook that
unless he saw his trick tomorrow
he wouldn’t believe him. My boss
said he would put groceries and gas
aside for him if he showed his'triek.
The very next morning a messen
ger came to tell us that my boss
was wanted by that man. Anguga
look. We both went out. There we
saw four men with him.
In the middle of the river, we
saw a hole in the ice, a hole big
enough for any human being, if he
dived.
A coil of line was along side the
hole, and Angugalook said to his
men to bind him, hapd and feet.
This they did. I opened my eyes
then when ihey began to undress
him. Angugalook said something I
couldn't understand, then walked
to the edge of the hole and jump
in feet first, the line what’s on the
ice traveled as if some runner was
away with it.
These four rr held the line, and
within about ten minutes, the line
started slacking. The men pulled it
in.
Well, what you know: Here comes
out Angugalook and he had a fresh
seal and a fresh fish. It's unbeliev
able, but it’s true. We’ve seen it
with our own eyes.
That very day my boss, lost over
$700 worth of groceries and gasoline.
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