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Vol. 1, No. 12___Monday, March 18, 1963 Fairbanks, Alaska
College Scholarships Open
To Alaska Native Students
Alaska native students of Ameri
can Indian and Eskimo ancestry
are eligible to receive a number of
.scholarships to colleges and univer
sities, offered by the United Shol
arship Service of Denver, Colorado.
Applications for the Fall 1963
school term must be completed and
received by the Denver office on
or before April 15.
The grants vary in size, depend
ing upon the needs of the applicant.
They are awarded on the basis of
the student’s character, plans for
future work, and prospects of suc
cess in an academic career.
Those receiving the scholarships
must attend regionally accredited
institutions. University of Alaska
students are eligible; some grants
having already been made in Alas
ka.
The United Scholarship Service
i for American Indian students is
l sponsored by the Association on
American Indian Affairs, the Board
for Homeland Ministries of the
United Church of Christ, and the
National Council of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
Since the spring deadline for re
ceiving applicants is drawing near,
it is necessary to write soon for in
formation and forms needed.
Miss Tillie Walker, field director
of the scholarship service, is locat
ed in Room 30, 1450 Pennsylvania
Street, Denver 3, Colorado.
A number of Eequoyah Scholar
ships of $1,000 each are awarded
especially to students in their jun
ior year at college who have de
monstrated excellence during their
first two years. Transfer students
from junior colleges are not eligible
for this particular award, however.
EDITORIAL
Things We Love
The State Land Division officials are certainly burning
hot paths from the Fairbanks branch office and Juneau
office to Minto these days. They are doing it so fast that
it is hard to keep up with them.
Why are the officials doing what they're doing?
Well, the State Government knows the land is pretty good
in the Minto area, so do sportsmen who like to hunt ducks
for relaxation. Besides that, there are some rumors that
keep popping up that the land around Minto has oil-bear
ing deposits.
Well, land like that is pretty good to have. State
people would like to have it. It is pretty well known the
land around Minto is valuable, otherwise they would not
bother with it. Minto people want to keep their land be
cause it has been theirs for such a long, long time.
The people of Minto are descendents of people who
have lived there from way back, centuries and centuries
ago. Having lived there for so long, and having been
nourished by the land around them, they have come to
think home is the house they live in and the country around
it. The land that has provided them with food, the land
that had made Minto survive to the present day, is part of
their home. Minto, or any other village, would never
have survived without land.
Native people of Alaska have a habit of settling on
land that best nourishes them, and that land that has been
kind to them becomes deep-seated through passage of
time. Having lived intimately with this land, walking on
it, playing, hunting, fishing, pretty soon, make the native
folks feel, as they look around them, "It is my land, my
home."
Yes, land that has been kind to one's ancestors and
the same land that is kind to their descendents today is
hard to leave, let alone give up. Yet that is what the State
is doing nowadays, trying to make the native folks give
up their lands.
The State even suggested that it would select land
around Minto so the folks there could buy pieces of it back
from the State. Minto natives answered, "We don't like
that. Why should we buy back our own land?"
« Lots of native folks .in Alaska are finding out that the
land their grandparents and the parents' grandparents had,
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OFFICIAL STATE HOSTESS—Mrs. William A. Egan yesterday pre
sented a proclamation from her husband, the Governor of Alaska,
to Mrs. Eva McGown in Fairbanks making her official state hostess
and Alaska ambassador on her forthcoming six-month trip arotrttd
the world. It all occurred at a going-away party for Eva McGown
sponsored by Inside Alaska Tours and leading airlines. A stewardess
from Irish Air Lines was on hand to present Eva with St. Patrick’s
Day shamrocks. Large crowds of people jammed into Fairbanks’
Northward Building to honor one of Alaska’s most popular and best
loved persons. —Tundra Times Photo
Apache Chief to Attend
Tanana Chiefs' Meeting
Lester Oliver, tribal chairman*
of the White Mountain Apache
Tribe, Whiteriver. Arizona, will be
one of the principal speakers of
this year’s Tanana Indian Confer
ence.
A self-made man, bron in wiki-up
Oliver presides over the nine
man council that administers an
extensive resource development
program bringing an income of
$600,000 annually into the tribe’s
treasury. White Mountain Apache
revenue-producing enterprises, op
erating on a budget of a million
dollars a year, include timber sales,
cattle herding, and operation of a
deluxe tourist motel.
The Council also directs a variety
of other tribal activities, including
Law and Order enforcement.
Health. Education and Welfare ad
ministration, Recreation activities
and Road construction and main
tenance.
So far fifteen villages have ac
cepted invitations to send delegates
to the three-day conference to be
held June 5-7, according to Alfred
Ketzler, chairman of Dena Nena
Henash, Interior Indian organiza
tion.
Also invited to the meeting are
Robert L. Bennett, area director,
Bureau of Indian Affairs; William
Paul, Sr., Seattle attorney and grand
president emeritus of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood and William
Byler, executive director of the
Association on American Indian Af
fairs. .
Ketzler said the meeting was
now in the planning stages and
other special guests would be in
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Rules to Curb
Oil Lease
'Front Men'
By Thomas A. Snapp
Times Staff Writer
Secretary of the Interior Stewart
L. Udall has recently announced
proposed new regulations aimed at
curbing the unscrupulous conduct
of federal oil lease speculators.
The new rules purportedly would
prevent multiple filings by “dum
mies” or “front men” who have
been stuffing the drawing hoppers.
Udall said the “dummies” have
been stacking the odds against the
ethical applicants who make bona
I fide single offers for oil leases.
Daniel Jones, manager of the
Fairbanks Land Office, says that
the “dummies stacking the deck”
has been a big problem here in
their one-a-month drawings.
There are presently several hund
red oil and gas leases in the Fair
banks Land District which cover
some nine million acres. The leaser
are scattered from the Arctic Slope
southward to Tanana-Yukon River
and from the Canadian border west
ward to the coast.
Here is an example of how the
unscrupulous conduct works as cit
ed by Jones.
“A bunch of fellows will get to
gether and agree to individually
submit a lease application on a
certain piece of land. They agree
that if anyone of them gets the
lease, they all share in it.”
“This is collusion and clearly
against the law,” Jones said. “It
stacks the deck for those making
bona fide offers individually."
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Big Excitement
First Icebreaker Comes
To King Island Village
PAUL TIULANA, of King Island
Village, Nome, is shown demon
strating the techniques of ivory
carving during his visit to New
York to attend the annual meet
ing of the Association on Ameri
can Indian Affairs in June, 1962.
Mr. Tiulana is the leader of the
King Island people and a mem
ber of the Executive Committee
of Inupiat- Paltot. -
► By Paul Tiulana
King Island Village
One of the most exciting things
that ever happended at my home
was when the U. S. ship, the Burton
Island came to King Island. It hap
pened one cold February day sev
eral years ago.
Our people especially the old peo
ple, were greatly impressed because
they thought it was impossible that
a ship could come to our island in
the middle of the winter.
I remember I was having lunch
that day and my brother-in-law
was working on some skins. It was
pretty cold; the temperature was
abount 20 below and the wind from
the north was blowing about 25
miles per hour.
We had been told that a big ice
breaker was coming to the village,
but we didn’t believe it. The ice
was so thick we thought it couldn't
be done.
One man told me, “I won’t be
lieve it until I see the ship and feel
it."
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