Important Fishing Meet Slated;
Alaskans Are Invited to Attend
The status and condition of the |
principal marine fisheries of the j
west coast will be reviewed by the !
Pacific Marine Fisheries Commis- j
ELIM:
Men Are Getting
Many Seals Now
By Anna Sacclieus
Elim Correspondent
ELIM. October 24—There has
been sometime since Elim news
was printed so I am asked to be the
correspondent.
Some local men have shot quite a
few spotted seals, mukluks (oog
ruks) and four ribbon seals up to
this date. There has been no luck in
whale hunting although schools
were seen few times.
Yesterday the Employment As
sistant Officer, H. P. Buroughs, ar
rived to interview some applicants
to help assist them for employment
assistance and vocation training.
Buroughs plan to return to his
home office, which is at Nome, to
morrow.
Lest Monday, October 14, the
local men razed the trees and wil
lows which had grown along the
airport. The men worked under
the airport project.
There are signs of slush out on
the Norton Sound which means
Winter is here. The hills are partly
covered with fresh snow, also the
grounds in this valley.
As for the activities, there aren't
much, but movies are shown twice
a week. Fridays the children and
baby sitters take in the movie and
on Saturdays the adults.
Foul Nagaruk. the boys’ 4-H Club
leader, meets with the boys on
Thursday nights from seven to nine
p.m. Mrs. Paul Nagaruk, the girls’
4-H Club leader, is now at Fair- 1
banks, her daughter, Helen, and
niece, Selma Daniels, have taken '
over while she is away.
Accidentally Shot
At Pt. Hope by Son
PT. HOPE, Oct. 28 (Special) —
Mrs. Violet Howarth was acciden
tally shot through the left leg yes
terday by her son who was unload- I
ing a .22 cal. rifle in their kitchen. 1
It was difficult to get medical
help for Mrs. Howarth, because the
only radio in this village is on a
, Bureau of Indian Affairs frequen
cy that is only monitored during
working hours.
Because Mrs. Howarth could not
lly in a small plane. Rev. Dwain
McKenzie attempted to fly to Kot
zebue for aid. However, he was
forced to land at the Arctic Re
search Lab's camp at Cape Thomp
son, because of icing conditions,
and sent his message from there.
A Wien Airlines Beaver, piloted
by John Cross and with nurse Tess
Jeudivine aboard, came to Pt. Hope,
and with the aid of flashlights
held by villagers, made a night
landing to pick up Mrs. Howarth.
There is some complaint here be
cause the BIA radio is not much
help during emergencies. The radio
at one time was equipped with a '
crystal that allowed word to be j
sent to Wien at Kotzebue, but the [
crystal was removed because it j
was against “regulations.”
Traffic is the lifestream of the
20th centunry. It is a sign of suc
• cess and prosperity. After all, what
is a pedestrian? He is a man who
■ has two cars — one being driven
by his wife, the other by one of his
children.—Robert Bradbury.
Ue can’t cross a bridge until we
■ come to it; but I always like to lay
, down a pontoon ahead of time. —
Bernard Barucb
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sion at its annual meeting in Port
land. Oregon. The meeting will be
held at the Sheraton Hotel on No
vember 13, 14 and 15,. The Commis
sion invites participation by all
persons and organizations interested
in the marine, commercial and rec
reational fisheries of the Pacific
Coast.
The Commission’s Advisory Com
mittee will meet in Portland on
November 12 to consider specific
proposals for subsequent Commis
sion action. Persons wishing to sub
mit proposals or resolutions for con
ideration at the annual meeting are
requested to submit them in writ
ing to the Pacific Marine Fisheries
Commission office. 741 State Office
Building. Portland. Oregon. 97201.
Anyone planning to attend this
meeting can receive help in making
hotel reservations by contacting the
Pacific Marine Fisheries Commis
sion or the co-host organizations,
the Oregon Fish Commission or the
Oregon Game Commission in Port
land.
Washington, Idaho, Oregon and
California are members of the Pa
cific Marine Fisheries Commission.
British Columbia and ALASKA
have been represented in an unof
ficial advisory capacity at past
meetings, according to the Alaska
Dept, of Fish and Game.
Rampart Study
Pamphlet Out
The U.S. Army Engineer District,
Alaska, has released a new color
brochure describing the controver
sial Yukon River Rampart Dam pro
ject study.
The brochure is titled. “Rampart
Study.” It explains the different as
pects of the power project, as they
arc now known or surmised, and
the other aspects still under study. I
Some ofthe project statistics have
been updated. The brochure states j
that Rampart will have a prime
power of 3.9 million kilowatts, and
installed capacity of 5.04 million
kilowatts. This is slightly higher
than previous estimates.
It also notes there would be 18
turbines in the power house, where
previously it was stated there would
be 17 turbines.
I he dam is proposed to be built
at Mile 756 (from the mouth! of the
2.000 mile long Yukon River.
The pamphlets are being distrib
uted by officers of the newly fronted
; Yukon Power For America, Inc.
group. This is a private promotional
I endeavor created to sell the idea
j of the Rampart project.
Univ- to Offer
Mining Courses
Ten Alaskan communities will
host the University of Alaska's min
ing extension course this year.
They are Fort Yukon, Ketchikan,
Yakulat. Valdez, Dillingham, Nome,
Anchorage, Fort Richardson, Kenai
and Palmer, according to Dr. Ar
thur Buswell. dean of the Division
of Statewide Services.
The popular course is designed '
to give basic training in the gen- 1
eral principles of mineral explora- j
tion. It includes instruction in min- !
eral identification, prospecting’
techniques, economic geology, pla
cer and lode mining methods, and
mining law.
In addition, a two-week geochem
ical prospecting course will be of
fered at Anchorage and at the Uni
versity campus, it was announced.
This course is for experienced pros
pectors.
Local announcements will be
made before the start of the course
in the different communities, it
was stated... < ^ J
First of Two Ports:
Koyukuk History by Edwin Simon
Editor’s note: Following is the
first of a two-part serial by Edwin
Simon of Huslia, telling about life
along the Koyukuk River of Inter
ior Alaska, shortly after the turn
of the century.
Simon told the story to missionary
Jim Garrett, a lay worker of the
Episcopal Church, who taped the
story and transcribed it. Part two
of this story will be printed in our
next issue.
By Edwin Simon
Huslia, Alaska
Well, I'm going to tell about my
life, long ago, back in 1907 and
1909, when I was a kid. I was born
in the fall of 1898 on the Yukon
River at Rampart. My birthday
will be around the first of October,
according to what my mother used
to tell me; she say, about the time
when a little ice start to form on
the edge of the Yukon River, that's
the time I was born. I don’t know
if that's really my birthday, but I
always call that my birthday—first
of October.
Of course, them days, old folks
never had calendar, nor watch,
nothing. They just have to guess
by the moon. My mother used to
tell me they used to have a name
for all the moon and she used to
tell me they call that moon in Oc
tober, “freeze-up,” the month that
freeze up; that's what they used
to call it.
So you can tell how old I am now!
And as far as I remember, I started
to remember things pretty well
around 1905 and 1907. I was about
seven years old at that time.
They had a little village, Arc
tic City, they call it, ten miles below
Allakaket.
Well, my mother and I was out
snaring rabbits in. I should judge.
About February. Days were getting
longer and my mother was packing
little baby, my younger brother.
Arrhdeason Stuck
When we came home that even
ing, I saw some dogs running
around, different dogs, so I like to
find out who came. I find that it
was the Episcopal preacher. Arch
deacon Stuck. It was 1906. He had
an interpreter with him. He came
over from Tanana.
From Tanana to Arctic City is a
hundred and ten miles overland. I
suppose they had to take tent and
stove them days. When he started to
hold service in one of the bigger
house in there, he baptize people
and give them names and every
thing.
So, one night he hold service, and
well, he put kind of a tripod near
the door; they got only one door
in there, and he stand right there
and put something in there. And he
blow the light out, except it was
gas lamp, coal oil lamp what we
use to call.
And all at once the house was
dark, and everybody started get
excited, "See what's going to hap
pen now." My old man was just ner
vous—I remember pretty good.
Pretty soon you see a big flash
and everybody holler. Well, that’s
the way they used to take the pic
ture long ago. They have to blow
the light out to get the picture.
So that’s the way it was. And
then he left. He must have went
back to Tanana or someplace. He
stayed in Arctic City for about a
week—I remember pretty good.
And then in 1907, they start the
mission. Allakaket Mission. He start
the mission, Archdeacon Stuck did.
1907. At that time I was nine years
old. I never say “yes” or “no.” I
don’t know nothing. My folks never
talk English, of course.
Old Man River
And in 1909, we went up Old Man
River. Now, it’s fifteen miles below
Allakaket, what they call Kanuten
ukh—that’s Old Man River name—
we call it Kanutenukh in our lan
guage.
There was three family and they
all had birchbark. My mother had
birchbark boat and father had
birchbark canoe and the l’est of
the families same way. They all
had birchbark canoe and birch
bark boat.
The women is poling up the river
in the bigger boat, what they call
birchbark boat and the men is pol
ing up in the birchbark canoe. It’s
quite a ways up Old Man we went
up. That is about in first part of
September, last part of August, I
should judge. We don’t know the
day but that's about the time it
was.
So when we pot tip to where they
want to winter, that is for trapping,
hunting, and fishing. Them days,
they know where it’s good place to
fish. So they always want to go
to where they can catch lots of fish
in the fall before freeze-up—that’s
the main thing.
At "Onumangut"
And when we got up to Old Man
Creek Lake, we call "Onumangut,”
that’s the name of it, that Old Man
Creek Lake. "Kanutenukh" means
“fish eggs river” in our language,
that’s Old Man River, Kanutenukh.
When we got there, all the men
went out hunting with three family.
My mother and my auntie, we all
stayed one place and my half-sister,
they were up little farther above
us, about ten miles, where there's
good fishing too.
The men went out hunting. It
must be October because they went
out looking for bear in the den.
We stayed right on the bank of Old
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Man River and the lake. There was
a narrow strip between the lake
and the river. They were catching
quite a few white fish in that lake,
my mother and auntie.
Just before freeze-up when the
people went hunting bear, one day
my mother and auntie was going
up to the cache at the camp about
a half mile up where we stay a
week ago. They want to get a little
flour and sugar and tea, and that’s
about all they had, too, them days—
no other kind of white grub.
I was the oldest and they told
me to stay home with the kids and
don’t go out. Keep them kids in the
tent. Every once in a while I stick
my head out of the tent looking
■ for them! I don't know how long it
j took them, but finally I see them
coming, and there's three of them!
White Man
Well. I don’t know. They came
across and here’s white man with
them. He's talking. He looks good.
He smiles and talk and in good
shape, the way I remember: there
was nothing wrong with the fellow.
He was talking and he tried to
tell them, “I killed my two horses
this summer,” that’s what he say.
But my mother switch it around
i to, “Paul killing two horses,” and
; she tell my auntie, “Sister, your
husband kill two bear this fall.”
Then my auntie say, “Oh no,
couldn’t be. There's a other man
with him. He’s not that good
hunter.”
Then I thought of horses. I was
nine years old—because that sum
mer in Arctic City there was horses.
They put the logs and rollers under
the little houses and horses pull
that back, farther back from the
bank.
And I was around them, watch
ing them quite a bit. and I know
it was horses, what the white man
said. Then I told my mother and
my mother say, “You don’t know
nothing. Don’t try to tell us any
thing.”
So I let it go the way she wanted.
(To be continued)
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