MR. AND MRS. ANDREW TOO YAK
Fairbanks, Small Noiv
Eskimo Family Happily
Returns Home to Alaska
After spending \xk years outside,
a 36-year-old Bsiumo man, Andrew
Tooyak, his wife ana family last
week arrived back in Alaska—say
ing they had had a wonderful ex
perience but would prefer to make
their home in the 49th state.
Tooyak, his wife, Irene, and their
three children, Eveline, 13. Enoch,
11, and Andrew, 6, four and half
years ago were living in Pt. Hope
when they were relocated through
the BIA to Denver, Colorado.
“I wanted to have a chance for a
job and we wanted to see the Out
side,” Tooyak said.
The BIA paid their fares to Den
ver and he became employed in a
Sport Goods Shop.
“We really like it. I repaired skiis,
snowshoes, and other sport equip
ment-made $60 a week. We rented
a little home near where I worked.
The children got along well in
school, he explained.
But, after a while, Tooyak said
he and his family got homesick for
the land of their birth and since
then had tried to save enough
money to come back. It was very
difficult to save enough, he said,
until about a year ago when he got
a job paying good money at a win
ter resort near Aspen, Colo.
At the resort, Tooyak took tour
ists from as far away as India for
dog sled rides, and had taken for i
dog sled rides many famous people,
including the movie star, Janet
Leigh, and U. S. Senator Peter Dom
inek and his family.
Tooyak said he was impressed
with the good weather outside
which was “about like Anchorage”
and the hunting. He took up archery
and became proficient in the use of
the bow and arrow.
He got two deer each of his first
two years outside. Hunting for elk,
phesants was good, he explained,
as was the fishing.
He brought his archery tackle
with him back home and hoped to
hunt caribou with it when he re
turned to Pt. Hope.
Mrs. Tooyak said living outside
had broadened their horizons and
that she was particularly impressed
with the tall buildings.
“When we live at Pt. Hope, we
thought Fairbanks was a big city.
Now coming back from the Outside,
we think Fairbanks is a small city.”
“But the people in Alaska are
much more friendly than Outside,”
she said.
“There’s a last more peophj but
you have to meet them first and
make friends.”
"Here in Alaska if a person
bumps into you on the street, he
will say, ‘Excuse me.' Outside, when
they bump into you, they just go
on and don’t pay any attention to
you,” she said.
The Tooyaks made many friends
and adapted well outside. They still
retained their language, however,
by conversing with each other in
Eskimo and by listening to tape re
cordings sent from Pt. Hope. They
said the children had lost some of
their language. A fourth child. Dar
lene, born outside knows no Eskimo.
According to the Tooyaks, tourists
and other asked many questions
about Alaska, particularly if Es
kimos lived in igloos or snow
houses.
"Grant Ballot (an Eskimo from
Selawik who worked with Tooyakl
used to tell tourists his father made
a fortune in the summertime build
ing snow houses,” Tooyak laughed.
“The children have been restless,
Tlingits to Get Paid
For Extinction of
Aboriginal Rights
Tlingit Indians living along the
Alaskan coast between Cape B'air
weather and the Copper River may
soon receive compensation for the
loss of their aboriginal rights in the
area.
Representative Ralph J. Rivers
has introduced a House Joint Reso
lution calling upon the Federal
government to compensate these
people for the extinction of their
aboriginal rights.
Congressman Rivers stated that
in the past ten years the Federal
government has issued about l't
million acres of oil and gas leases
in this area.
He stated that $500,000 would be
a good basis for the compensation
figure, since it roughly coincides
with the revenues the government
received from the oil and gas leases
in the area.
“This measure is supplemental to
the 1959 action of the Court of
Claims declaring that establishment
of the Tongass National Forest with
subsequent timber sales extin
guished Indian titles within the for
est and constituted a ‘compensable
taking,’ ” Congressman Rivers con
cluded.
Eskimo Becomes
Pediatrician
In San Diego
“I’m going out to visit an Eskimo
doctor,” said Roberta Snyder, smil
ing.
Miss Snyder passed through Fair
banks last week on her way to San
Diego to visit with her sister. Mrs.
Loretta Helle. who has just become
a doctor. She is a pediatrician.
Miss Snyder stopped long enough
to attend the Fairbanks Native As
sociation meeting at the Hospitality
House. She is a welfare office work
er at Nome. She works with Miss
Elsie Mae Smith, who is head of
the office there.
so excited, they could hardly wait
to get back," he said. “And I have
been homesick too to see my rela
tives.”
‘‘It was well worth going outside
for the experience,” Tooyak said,
but added, that there is no place
like home and no place like Alaska.
Where You'll Always Feel an Easy
Atmosphere of Friendliness
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Training in Alaska
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By Thomas Snapp
Times Staff Writer
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Each year, according to a survey,
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electronic technicians but only
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People with electronic training
have to be brought to Alaska from
the lower states at great expense.
Most of the time they perform
contract for a year or so. then re
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About two years ago. the Bureau
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finding persons to fill the openings
for electronics technicians in
Alaska.
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outside qualified native young men
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