Chariot. . .
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world from this standpoint and it
has great value for the continuation
and initiation of many scientific
studies.”
The camp site at Cape Thompson
includes about 25 temporary build
ings, with the camp completely
equipped to lodge and provide for
8-1 persons.
Facilities include 12 dormitories,
a small office, two small biology
laboratories, kitchen, washroom
with hot showers, laundry, power
station, radio station and aircraft
radio beacon, plus other facilities,
including two airstrips, the longer
being 2,200 feet.
Dispute . . .
(Continued From Pg. 1)
Karl Landstrom of the BLM stated
that the minimum size which the
BLM is required to survey under
the Statehood Act is 50.000 acres.
When pressed for details by Sena
tor Bartlett, Landstrom stated that
a statehood bill so specified. Upon
further questioning, it turned out
that he referred to the language in
a 1954 report.
"It appears to me,” Bartlett said,
“that it is totally irrelevant to make
reference to the history of a state
hood bill in the 83rd Congress. This
bill did not become law.
“Alaska statehood was passed in
the 85th Congress and what is rele
vant here is the legislative history
of that act. At that time no qualifi
cations were made on the BLM sur
vey requirements.”
The 1964 budget for cadastral sur
veys in Alaska, including survey
of state selections, is $1,650,000—14
per cent less than the amount, $1,
934.000. in the 1963 budget.
Senator Bartlett urged appreci
able increases in the budget for
these surveys and insisted that the
“BLM no longer dispute or delay
its assgned job.”
However, there has been no indi
cation here that the BLM wil lhave
a change of policy. Roscoe E. Bel!
told Tundra Times today that the
BLM had grouped four state selec
tions as one in the Susitna Valley
but that the state had refused the
patent on this and had protested
the decision. The protest was dis
missed by the BLM in Alaska and
referred to Washington.
Bell said the state selection pro
gram had been stymiied several
months while the state waits on the
purely administrative decision from
the U.S. Interior Department.
“We haven’t got a decision, al
though one was promised some
months ago,” Bell said.
He explained if the Interior De
partment denied the protest and re
fused to change its policy, that the
state intended to take the matter
to court to get a legal interpreta
tion of “compactness.”
But before he can file the case
in court. Bell said the state had to
exhaust administrative remedy and
must wait for the decision from
Washington on the protest.
In the meantime, claims and oil
and gas lease in affected areas are
being held up.
According to Daniel Jones, of the
BLM here, the “conflict over com
pactness has absolutely paralyzed
state selection program.”
In Fairbanks, the state made only
one selection in each of the last
four months and made no selection
last October.
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Scientist Warns
Project Chariot
Still Pending
Montreal, P.Q.
Canada
November 12, 1963
Dear Editor:
As the former senior scientist in
charge-of human studies of Project
Chariot in Point Hope and Noatak
I found your recent two-part article
on Project Chariot a reasonable as
sessment of the facts. However, I
should like to add two important de
tails.
First, the 1959 decision to deton
ate Project Chariot in springtime
iMarch-April) was not supported
by scientific studies which definitely
noted Eskimo hunting activity at
that season. In fact, nearly one
half the Project Chariot scientific
staff protested the AEC statement.
Second, I regret that you omit
ted comment on the AEC land with
drawal application of 1958 for an
area nearly the size of Delaware.
This application was kept secret
for many months, it was incorrectly
recorded at 40 sq. miles instead of
the true 1,600 sq. miles and it pre
vents the local Eskimo population
from filing land right claims.
As long as this AEC application
remains in effect Project Chariot
will be a real possibility.
Sincerely,
Don Charles Foote
McGill University
Letters to Editor
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March 4, 1963
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In the Indian Affairs Newsletter
>f December 1962 we have read of
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Tundra Times and wish to express
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and the Indianist Yearbook serves
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on Indian matters, projects and pro
grams of development of Indian
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tinent.
We are very much interested in
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tion on that region of America still
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Please let us know as soon as pos
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Northwest Territories,
Arctic Canada
March 8, 1963
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Note in the last issue of the Arc
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Task Force Cites
Need for Housing
The Task Force docs not con
sider itself qualified to propose
steps for the creation of a public
housing pi jgram for Alaskan na
tives; however, it does wish to em
phasize the need for such a pro
gram.
It sees the role of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs to be that of provid
ing information concerning the
piesent state of native housing and
to serve as a liaison between of
ficials of the various housing agen
cies and the native communities. In
order to perform this role, the Bu
i eau has wisely acided a housing
advisor to the staff of the Juneau
Area Office.
The Task Force would also like
to suggest that officials of teh In
dian Health Service be brought in
to any planning for native housing,
since there is a close relationship
between village housing and the
Indian Sanitation Program.
Olympic Tryouts
Now Being Held
At Mt, Alyeski
The top skiers of the nation start
ed gathering this weekend at Mt.
Alyeska near Anchorage for the
National Alpine Ski Champion
ship and Olympic troyouts.
The affair is the first national
sport event ever staged in Alaska.
The eyes of the sporting world
will be on the ski slopes of Mt.
Alyeska Thursday through Friday
when nearly 90 of the best skiers
from the U. S„ Canada, and Swit
zerland will finish slalom, giant
slalom and downhill races.
A new lodge is part of more than
$500,000 investment in Alyeska to j
make it qualify for the national
event.
The National Alpine Champion
ship is one of two key meets which
will help determine the U. S. men’s
and women’s teams for the Olympics
in Innsbruck, Austria, next year. /
The other meet, the Harriman Cup.
was held March 20 at Sun Valley,
Idaho.
Sixty hand-picked Ski Patrol
members from throughout the state
including Silas Negovanna, of Fair
banks. will be on hand to provide
for the safe care and rescue of in
jured ski competitors, officials,
spectators, and recreational skiers
attending the event.
Native Students
To Attend June
Music Festival
Twelve Eskimo, Aleut and Indian
high school seniors have been in
vited to come to Anchorage for the
Alaska Festival of Music June 12-27.
A $2,500 Sears Foundation grant
will make it possible for the young
people to travel to the festival.
While in Anchorage, they will be
guests in local homes where high
school seniors of their own age and
similar interests are to be found.
Over a 2000-mile span, from Pt.
Barrow to Ketchikan, the twelve
students will represent five Indian
tribes and Eskimo and Aleut peo
ples. They will be flown into the
state's largest city for events rang
ing from Japanese folk singing, a
summary of Eskimo music, to Bach
and Beethoven.
Elizabeth Nashaknik will repre
sent Barrow. Sally Walker, Nome.
Harry Harvey. Noorvik, Shirley
Major. Fairbanks. Kathryn Daniels
will represent the Chilkat Indians
of Skagway and Sacha Soboleff
will represent Juneau.
Wes Morrison of the Haida In- !
dians will come from Ketchikan:
Kenneth Cameron. Tlingitis. from
Sitka: Ethel Patricia Milne. Tsimp
shians. Metlakatla; and Christine
Charley of Glenallen and Rose
Frank. Copper Valley School, will
represent Athabascan Indians.
Bonnie Anderson, of full Aleut
told and retold
Legend of the Ten-Legged Bear I
By Charles Edwardsen
Barrow, Alaska
Long before white men came to
the far north, all the people of what
is now Barrow were living at Point
Barrow. In the winter time the Es
kimos would go out hunting for
seals off Point Barrow.
In the old days/ they did all their
hunting with spears or bows and
arrows. One size of spear was used
for game and another for smaller
game.
Once upon a time there was a man
living at Point Barrow who was
named Ahgnalook. He used to go
out hunting during the winter time
when the days were getting longer.
There were no calendars at that
ime. but the people estimated that
it was during the early part of Jan
uary.
Strange Water Hole
While he was out hunting one
time, he found a water hole north
of Point Barrow. He looked at the
water hole and wondered why it
was so big. There he found some
seal lungs floating on the surface
of the water.
He didn’t stay long enough to tell
the people what was happening but
headed for Point Barrow to tell the
people what he had seen.
All the people met in a big igloo
which was usually used for Eskimo
games, dances, and feasts. Ahgna
look told the men of the village
there what he had seen north of
Point Barrow at the large water
hole.
He said this water hole fascinated
him, that he had never seen a water
hole this size in the winter time.
When he told the hunters of the
seal lungs floating on the surface,
the men began to talk about a big
polar bear called Kin-gnik.
Gigantic Bear
Kin-gnik is a large or over-sized
polar bear, too large to stay on .the
top of the young Ice. Kin-gniks are
polar bears which stay in the water
because they have the advantage of
getting their food better by break
ing through the surface.
Some one in the group also said
that it could well be the water hole
of a Kokogiak. Kokogiak was once
a Kin-gnik. but he had grown ten
legs. The natives named this special
bear. Kokogiak.
Strange Power
When Ahgnalook had told his
story, the people panicked. The
hunters told him not to go out with
out some kind of large weapon. This
polar bear was too large; their
weapons were not effective.
Men. before Ahgnalook. had been
killed by this polar bear while they
were hunting on young ice. This
bear, they believed, could influence
men to come where he wanted them
to come, and then he would attack
them from underneath th" ie-\
The hunters told Ahgnalook that
when Kokogiak seized a hunter he
ate him. When the bear caught
blood, will come from Kodiak.
A luncheon in honor of the twelve
visitors will be attended by Louis
K. Bye, general manager of the
Scars Roebuck Foundation.
Other foundations assisting in the
festival program are: Martha Baird
Rockefeller Aid to Music Fund,
the T. Lloyd Kelly Foundation of
Chicago, the Rockefeller Founda
tion. the Asia Foundation, the Ford
Foundation through its center for
Asian Art. University of Washing
ton. and Alaska’s own Z. J. Loussac
Foundation.
At several social functions of the
Festival, the students will get ac
quainted with Anchorage leaders in
economic and political life as well
as citizens interested in cultural
development.
I am satisfied that when the Al
mighty wants me to do, or not to
do, any particular thing, he finds
a way of letting me know it.—AB
RAHAM LINCOLN
something, he would holler to at
tract the attention of the other hunt
ers. That’s why they called him
Kokogiak.
Special Weapon
Ahgnalook asked if any man
would go out with him to the water
hole. The hunters all refused, but
he went ahead and made a spear
which was Large enough to kill a
whale. When he was ready, Ahgna
look headed north to the water
hole. He didn t intend to listen to
the people. ,
Along the way to the water hola
he stopped at a large iceberg and
climbed to the top to look around
from its towering top. This iceberg
was cracked. The crack was wide
enough for a person to go through.
Made Dans
He thought to himself, “After
fighting the polar bear, if I don'6
succeed. I will run to this iceberg ”
He thought of this while he wa3
nearing the water hole.
When he reached the water hole,
it had not changed in appearance,
but had been used. The remains of
the seal lungs he had seen were still
the same. He then waited for the
creature to come up. He found this
water hole where there was no lead.
While Ahgnalook was standing
there, soomething started to surface.
When the creature partially sur
faced. he found it was an enormou3
polar bear. As the bear surfaced,
he saw the man standing there and
started growling.
The hole was too small for tha
entire body of the bear to surface,
so the polar bear started to crack
the ice around him. After cracking
the ice. the polar bear, Kokogiak,
surfaced up to his neck.
Speared Eyes
Ahgnalook began to spear the
creature on the neck, but it was
j too tough. While he attempted to
kill the polar bear, it surfaced up
I to the shoulders. Ahgnalook thought
j of what he should do.
He started the spear the eyes of
the creature. He took both of the
bear's eyes out. but the bear didn't
give up. It just kept on cracking
the ice until finally the arms o!
the polar bear appeared, and he
thought to himself. “If I spear the
polar bear under the arms. I might
succeed because they are soft spots.”
Tough Hide
His spear couldn't penetrate the
skin under the arms. Then tin next
pair of arms appeared. When the
entire body began to surface. Ahg
nalook started to run toward the
crack in the iceberg for protection.
When the bear finally surfaced on
the ice; it started tracking Ahgna
look by sensing his tracks.
The bear had no eyes but his
sense of smell was keen. Ahgnalook
saw the iceberg but the polar bear
w=s closing in on him. He ran with
-11 ho was worth, with the polar
bear close behind him. He finally
reached the crack in the iceberg
and went through the passage in
it, hoping the bear would wedge
itself between the crack in tha
iceberg.
Bear Trapped
The Polar bear became wedged
but kept hopelessly attempting to
break loose so it could continue to
chase Ahgnalook. The attempt waS
futile. The bear tired himself and
finally stopped.
Ahgnalook went around the ice
berg and approached the polar beaP
from the rear. The only weak place
he could thing of was the lower
intestinal tract and he rammed his
spear repeatedly until blood flowed
out in great amounts. Finally the
polar bear died from loss of biood.
And so through the courage of
Ahgnalook the danger to the people
of Point Barrow was removed when
the brave hunter killed the mam
moth ten-legged polar bear.
But to this day the story of the
gigantic bear named Kokogiak has
survived and at Barrow, the story
is told and retold.