SANTA FE ART STUDENTS—An Alaskan was elected as the first
president of the first Student Council at the new Institute of Ameri
can Indian Arts, Santa Fe. Left to right—(front row): Walter Porter,
President; Alexander Walking Sky, Vice President: Alberta Nofchis
sey, Secretary; John Vandall. Finance Commissioner. (Back row)
Marlene Spencer and Manfred Susunkewa, Art Commissioners; Don
na Whitewing and Damon Honyaktewa, Social Commissioners.
Little Squirrel and Hunters
In Exhausting Battle of Wits
(Editor's note—The following story is taken from, Volume 3 of
the INUPIAM UKALENI, a selection of short Eskimo stories and
phrases in western Arctic Eskimo dialect, written by, R. Ahmaogak,
HI, J. Kayutak, and D. H. Webster. The booklet was published by,
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Box 1820, Fairbanks, Alaska. We are
grateful to George B. Fletcher, Jr., for liis permission to use the story
*>» in® Tundra Times. The following was translated into English by
the Editor of this paper.
Eskimo
SiksrigniaKtlH
Aanat-kullu Ayalhut-kullu tngra
ktut Aasii Alliniglu Alaglu aijunia
ktuk satku-kaklutik pisiksirnik pik
srunmiglu.
Pisuakamik kuugum sinaani, tau
tukkaak siksrik aniruak sisimin.
Allinik pisiksaktuk aglaan pisipitkaa
siksrik. Taamna siksrik chiichi
chiiktuk isiktikiunilu.
Nikpagaak taapkuak. aasii siksrik
anilgitchuk. Allinik pisiksalgitchuk
pisiijilgitkaa siksrik. Yahii! Alak
piksrutaktuk sisimun, aglaan pakiij
nitchuk siksrinmik.
Piksrutak-tillugu sisiija, siksrik
anilgitchuk sisikun allakun tunuak
kun aasii chiichichiiktuk. Alaglu
Alliniglu kiniaktuk tavra isilgitchuk
siksrik. Ullakkaak taapkuak iglua
sisaan aasii Alak piksrutavsaaktuk.
Piksrutapaluktuk uunak-silaakami,
aasii-suli siksrinmik pakinpitchuk.
Tavra tavrani Alak piksrutak
tillugu sisimik. Allinik utiktuk sisim
igluanun aasii nikpalgitchuk. Akku
paurak siksrik anilgitchuk tunuak
kun aa^i chiichi-chiikluni tupak
kaik taapkuak. '
Kiijiagmata isiktilginmiuk. Yahii
umaa! Alliniglu Alaglu kuviasuij
itchuk.
Airuk taapkuak pilaiklutik. Sik
srik akimaijaruk.
Yahii!
Bill Curbing
B-Girls Passed
With Laugh
Members of the State Legislature
had a good laugh recently when one
of their colleagues composed a poem
based on “Alaska’s B-Girl Law”
which was originally introduced by
Rep. Axel Johnson of Emmonak.
Rep. Jay Hammond, author of the
poem, recited his ode to fellow
lawmakers just before the B-Girl
bill was referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
“Revealing garments may not be
worn,
According to Axel's bill,
Ey cocktail waitresses plying their
trade
In any Alaskan gin mill.
“But there is one aspect we should
point out,
Though perhaps it is a bit crude:
The only way to legally serve drinks
Is—totally in the nude!”
The House swiftly passed the bill
and sent it on to the Senate.
English
Squirrel Hunters
Angak and Ayalhuk families went
camping. Two boys, Allinik and
Alak, went out hunting. Their
weapons were a bow and arrow and
a shovel.
As they walked along the bank
of a river, they saw a squirrel by
its burrough. Allinik shot with his
bow but missed. The squirrel chat
tered and dived into its hole.
As they waited, the squirrel
emerged from its burrough. Alli
nik shot, missed. Yahii! Alak com
menced to dig vigorously at the
squirrel hole but found nothing.
While Alak was digging, the
squirrel came up again at a hole
behind the boys and chattered. As
they looked around, it dived into
the burrough. They moved over to
the new hole and Alak started to
dig into it. He started to perspire,
but he failed to find the squirrel.
As Alak dug, Allinik came to
him and they stopped to rest. Soon
the squirrel came out, again behind
them, from another burrough. It
chattered and went back in. Yahii,
how disgusting! Allinik and Alak
were very unhappy.
Soon, the disappointed squirrel
hunters walked back home empty
handed.
The squirrel was the winner of
the battle of wits.
Yahii!
F.N.A. Elects
Board Members,
M Les Plans
By Howard Rock
Times Editor
The Fairbanks Native Association
held a meeting at Presbyterian Hos
pitality House last Tuesday, April
9, and elected the Board of Direc
tors of the organization.
Five people were named in addi
tion to the three elected officials,
Ralph W. Perdue, president, Nick
Gray, vice president, and Marge
Moore, secretary treasurer. The
eight people in this group will serve
as the governing body of the organ
ization.
The new board members are, Ef
fic Kokrine, Mary Jane Fate, Bill
Carlo, Laura Wright, and Pauline
Carlo.
Effie Kokrine is widely known as
the “grandmother of dog racing” in
the Fairbanks area. She is employed
at a local cleaning firm and lives
at 7-mile, Richardson Highway.
Mary Jane Fate is the wife of Dr.
Hugh B. Fate, Jr., dentist. Mrs. Fate
works as a dentist's assistant to her
husband.
Bill Carlo is a heavy equipment
operator and construction worker.
He is a private pilot and docs part
time wolf hunting.
Laura Wright is widely known as
parka designer in Fairbanks. A few
months ago she made a set of parkas
for Elvis Presley, movie star and
rock 'n roll singer.
Pauline Carlo is housewife and
is the wife of Bill Carlo.
After the election of the board
members the group set a date for
the next function of the FNA, which
will be a picnic at Kiwanis Ball
Park. Fairbanks, on May 11 at 5:30
p.m. People who will attend are
asked to bring food and dishes in
much the same order as at the pot
latch. All native people and their
children are welcome.
On Thursday night April 25. the
Board of Directors will hold a
meeting at Bill Carlo’s home at 7:30
p.m.
Ralph Perdue, president of the
group, told the assembly that about
500 natives in Fairbanks are po
tential members of the organization
and that an effort will be made to
enroll them as members.
Nick Gray, vice president, told
the meeting that the group, which
started with the heavily attended
potlatch in March, is making a fine
start and that the natives should
work hard to make it a success.
“Once we get it on solid ground,
we can do many fine things for the
natives,” he said.
The attendance was quite an im
provement from the last meeting.
About 40 people attended.
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List of Useful Expressions
For each subsequent issue of Tundra Times, the Department of
Linguistics and Foreign Languages at the University of Alaska will
submit contributions from its research section on Alaska's native
language.
Following arc selected items from a list of useful expressions com
piled by one of our Yupik students in the Eskimo Language Workshop.
Eskimo
wiija litnauristeijuuija,
wiija naaquistcijuuija.
wiija yuijcaristeijuutja.
wiija iinriurteijuuija.
aijaayuqerci taijersugyaaqua.
cazit? lor) cayit?
ikaayurteijqersugyaaqua.
maani witaciiqua piijayuni ernerni.
nunaaci manna asiiiiniuq.
celaakegcivaa.
qanrutcaaqluten.
ernerpak pisuryugyaaqua maligluci.
kitak-am ayiilta!
piugyaaqua.
mernurtua.
qaneleijurtua.
quayauija taijiemnek.
attaam taijerciqamken.
English
I am a teacher. 1
I am a teacher (or lay reader).
1 am a doctor.
I am a nurse.
I would like to see your chief.
What's the matter?
I'd like to have help.
I will stay here for 3 days.
Your village is nice.
My. what good weather!
I told you so.
Today I would like to go 1
hunting with you.
Okay, let’s go!
I would like to.
I’m tired
I'm tired of talking.
I'm grate for having seen you.
I will see you again.
. . . Just as science, art. and in
vention do not desire to reform
anybody, neither does love. By not
wanting to reform others love j
transforms them. By setting others
free, love binds them. A friend is I
a lover. He docs not preach, find
fault, condemn. He frees; and the
thing he frees he binds.—STARR
DAILY (American author in Re
lease)
Every noble work is at first im
possible.—Joy Elmer Morgan (Am
erican editor and educator)
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