LETTERS TO THE TIMES EDITOR INCREASE STEADILY
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
December 28, 1962
Dear Editor:
I read about your interesting
paper in Harper’s Magazine. Won
derful! I’ve visited the Eskimos in
Labrador and have always thought
they are warm and friendly people.
Enclosed is a check for as many
recent copies of Tundra Times as
it will pay for—after the postage
is taken out.
Also let me known whether your
paper is a daily or weekly and how
much the subscription would be for
me.
Do you accept peotry? I have
written one to the "warm, friend
ly Eskimo.” I am an editor of a
podtry magazine (quarterly) for
children—the only one of its kind—
and we receive poetry from all over
the world. We are "International
League of Children's Poets.”
I am looking forward to re
ceiving the copies of Tundra Times.
Sincerely yours,
Katherine Stains.
Dot Lake
December 8, 1962
Dear Editor:
I’ve read every issue of the Tun
dra Times, and as my husband says,
it gets better every week.
When we read that condemning
article in your paper, all I could
say was, "I’m Sorry.”
I’m sorry about some of the mis
sionaries who come to Alaska, be
cause through their actions and
deeds they leave a bad taste in a
person's mouth, and the true Chris
tians suffer along with the rest of
us.
I have been married a long time
to an Athabascan Indian. Our old
est boy is thirteen; I am white
skinned.
We have a mpdest five-room
home in the village here at Dot
Lake. We could have a beautiful
showy place if we were proud, but
we decided years ago to put our
money in what we felt was the best
investment. So we did. We put it
into our children. Just last month
we received our final papers on our
fourth adopted child.
We have Indian, Eskimo, and
white children. They all love each
other dearly, and there is no such
word as ‘different’ in our home.
My mother, who is from Califor
nia, visited us this fall for two
months.
No one could love grandchildren
any more, or grandchildren love
their grandmother more than my
family.
I hope God will help me to teach
my children two things: first, to
love and trust God always; second,
not to hurt or hate people like
others who distort the truth, but to
pity these people.
For they are the ones with the
narrow minds, and need pity—not
us.
There are problem people in
every race, so why judge them all
by these few.
Our home has always been open
to everyone regardless of race or
religion and always will be. I have
always felt it is not what a person
looks like that counts, but what he
is. A ditch digger would be as wel
come in our home as a potentate.
Let’s not become vicious as those
who have tried to harm us have
been, by distorting truth, telling
outright lies, snubbing people of a
different race, and by name call
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Let’s all, Indian, white, and Eski
mo alike be proud of our race, keep
quietly fighting for what we feel
are our rights, asking God to guide
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I’m very glad the Aleut people
are or have joined the family.
Sincerely,
Ruth Charles
Eielson AFB
December 15, 1962
Dear Editor:
I have seen some of the first
papers that you have put out. Some
of the articles describing Indian
and Eskimo culture will be especial
ly useful for grade school teaching
in the "lower 48.”
Enclosed please find $2.50 check
for six month subscription. I would
like to have my subscription start
ed with the first through present
copy of Tundra Times.
Thank you,
Arthur J. Risser
Librairie P. Raymann & Cie
17, Rue de Tournon—Paris—6e
Paris Le December 12, 1962
Dear Sirs:
Please enter a new subscription
to: Tundra Times from: September
1st 62 to August 63 service to be
made directly to our client: Centre
d 'Etudes Arctiques et Antarctiques
54, Rue de Varenne, Paris 7.
Invoice to us, in triplicate, show
ing retail and net prices, plus post
age, for settlement in due course.
Very truly yours,
I. Fonellin
Champaign, Illinois
December 12, 1962
Dear Sirs:
As a visitor to the United States,
interested in all aspects of life in
this country, I should, as a trip to
your state is not within reach of
my possibilities, be grateful to re
ceive some copies of your journal.
I enclose a check, one dollar.
It may interest you that my at
tention to your journal was brought
by Harper’s Magazine. I am.
Respectfully yours,
E. J. Vies
Division of Public Welfare
Alaska Office Building, Juneau
December 12, 1962
Dear Editor:
Thank you for the sample copy
of Tundra Times. Yours is a uni
que publication. I do not want to
miss a single copy. Will you accept
the enclosed check for $6.00, and
place my name on your subscrip
tion list as a charter subscriber,
that is, beginning with your first
issue in October.
When I make my field trip to
Fairbanks, I hope to get acquaint
ed with some of your staff. I am
sending a copy of this to our Dist
rict Representative, Mr. Eugene
Zinck.
I like your policy and enjoy your
featured material. Your article "Be
Kind to Orphans" relates the fine
traditon of your people. These are
traditions which need to be pre
served.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Dove M. Kull
Child Welfare
Supervisor
Northern Films
Seattle, Washington
December 21, 1962
Dear Editor:
I have just learned of the start
ing of your publication. Please en
ter my subscription, starting with
the first issue. Send me your bill
for the first year’s subscription and
I shall remit in full immediately.
I wish you the best of fortune in
your publishing venture. The Eski
mos and other natives of Alaska
should have a voice in northern af
fairs and I trust that your publica
tion will provide it in much great
er degree than has been the case
until now.
Sincerely,
Louis R. Huber
Harvard University
Graduate School of Education
December 17, 1962
Dear Editor:
I have recently read in The Lon
don Times Literary Supplement that
the Tundra Times is a new news
paper published by and for the Es
kimos and Indian population of
Alaska.
Because I am working on a pro
ject that aims at uncovering new
sources of English writing — from
around the world, I would very
much like to have copies of your
newspaper.
Would you be good enough to
send me all issues thus far pub
lished and include me on your
list of subscribers?
With many thanks.
Sincerely,
Priscilla Tyler
Assistant Professer of
Education
The Vancouver Sun
Vancouver, B. C.
December 13, 1962
Dear Sirs:
Congratulations on the first is
sue of your newspaper, which I
read about in the Christian Science
Monitor.
The Sun’s Page Five is devoted
I to reprinting articles of interest
from newspapers all over the world.
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Could you send me several copies
as samples? Wo would use these
as basis for a decision on whether
or not to subscribe.
Yours Sincerely,
A. C. Ross,
Page Five Editor
Capital Yacht Club
Washington, D. C.
December 19, 1962
Gentlemen:
Thank you for sending your No
vember 19 issue to me at the Cham
ber of Commerce of the United
States.
I was interested in the articles
describing your American Educa
tion Week activities, recommenda
tions of the missionaries on voca
tional education, and RCA training
for 23 Alaskans.
We have wanted to visit Alaska
for many years. Perhaps a subscrip
tion to your paper will prod us
into action. Enclosed is my check
for $3 for a six-month period.
Cordially,
Marion Olverson
Box 84
Ft. Yukon, Alaska
Mr. Robert R. Blodgett
Teller, Alaska
Dear Mr. Blodgett:
I want to be one of the thou
sands to commend you on your open
and frank letter to the Jacksonville
Daily News replying to the con
demning article of Alaska based on
an interview with an Alaska mis
sionary.
I, like other people, agree with
every word, comma, and period. I
only wish I had had the guts to
have written it myself.
You have served the people ol
Alaska well in doing so.
Mrs. Rita Buck
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