FAMOUS NIKKI GREETS VISITORS — Nikki was the star of
flic famous movie, “Nikki, Dog of the North,” filmed by Walt
Disney Studios. She is shown politely greeting Mrs. LaVena Wheel
er, world traveler, from near Dodge City, Kansas, who recently
visited her. Nikki is owned by Mrs. Virginia Sage who lives on
Dale Road on the outskirts of Fairbanks.
—Tundra Times Photo
World Traveler Finds Alaska
Interesting, Outstanding
"To live in Alaska, one of the
most interesting parts of the United
States, is a privilege one would not
willingly consent to relinquish,”
said World Traveler LeVena
Wheeler in Fairbanks last week.
Mrs. Wheeler, widow of Dr. Ed
ward P. Wheeler, of Kansas, has
spent seven years traveling the
globe, the past several months in
Alaska.
Unlike most tourists she takes
along no camera, takes no pictures,
stays for a period of time in each
place and plans her own tours to
remote places.
In Alaska besides visiting Barrow.
Kotzebue, and Nome, she has visited
Umiat, Anatuvak Pass, Wales, St.
Lawrence Island', and Little Dio
mede Island. She is now in Engle,
later will visit Anchorage. Palmer.
Homer and the Kenai Penninsula
before journeying to Southeast
Alaska.
"Much could be said of the great
winter beauty of Fairbanks that
makes one feel as if he were in a
Phantom Forest in Fairyland,” she
said.
When Mrs. Wheeler looked upon
Alaska’s great mountain, she said
nhe felt io nhould be called “Den
ali.”
Mrs. Wheeler said Nome would
be remembered as a nlace different
full of fun and joy. There she
chartered a musher and dog team
to take her during a blizzard to
Anvil Creek which made Nome
famous world over.
“There was nn whin used on the
does, only the different tone of the
voice of iheir master.'' “Ha” means
left, “dsji” means right, and “ho”
stop, she said. The does were most
supple and graceful and seemed to
try harder to please their master
when he called them bv name. “Las
sie, Mickey, Hover. Buster, Ice
Cream and Jughead seemed to out
run Lucky, Dude. Ruby. Queenie
Rhubarb as they ‘flew’ across the
country.”
Mrs. Wheeler said she considered
a real treat meeting Nome's “story
teller,” an Eskimo who tells legends
of her people of long ago. She said
Nome has two first-class hotels, both
serving excellent food “with a
world of hospitality.”
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“Nome is using good judgment in
keeping things of the old days. May
she never destroy her old board
walks and may Fairbanks guard her
old cabins,” she said.
One of her most interesting trips,
she said, was to Anaktuvak Pass
in the Endicott Mountains. She said
it was thrilling to fly over the
Brooks Range of Mountains ‘t'hat
stretch like a huge wall for 500
miles across the country from west
to east” and to visit a diminishing
tribe of inland Eskimos called the
Nunamiuts, quite distinct from
Eskimos of the Coast.
"The Nunamiuts’ religion has
found expression in a mass of leg
ends and myths which have been
handed down from the Stone Age
and a great number of them are
still being told,” she said.
‘They are an artistic tribe in
home building and mask making as
well as making large laddies from
mountain sheep horn. Beautiful in
deed and distinctive is their art,”
she said.
In her extensive traveling, Mrs.
Wheeler has visited many countries
in Europe, Africa, Central and
South America, the Fiji Islands,
Australia, New Zealand, and Mada
gascar.
Of all the places she has been,
she said the most interesting was
an island populated by the San Bias
Indians off the coast of Panama.
She said all the people lived in
woven octagonal shaped houses and
wore the same kind- of clothing, all
wore red and yellow scarfs over
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Native Dancing
Stressed at
Tanana Festival
Competitive nati^p dancing is be
ing emphasized at the big Indian
festival, Nuchoalawoyya, being held
this weekend, June 7-9, at Tanana.
Half of $600 in prize money,
which has been raised by the citi
zens of Tanana, will be awarded
to dance teams that excel.
$100 will be awarded at the na
tive dance following a big potlatch
beginning the festival on Friday
night and $100 will be awarded at
dances on Saturday and Sunday
afternon. All dancing will take
place in the open on the banks of
Tanana River.
The festival, revived '•last year to
bring back native customs, will al
so feature competition with prizes
awarded in many other areas in
cluding canoe racing, 2-milo foot
races, Indian arm wrestling, both
for women and men. a tug of war.
and other events.
A fishing derby will be held on
Saturday from 6 to 10 a.m. Boats
will be available to take partici
pants to local streams for the event.
Also a part of the festival will
be an arts and crafts exhibit of old
time Indian weapons and clothing.
their heads and jewelry on their
arms and ankles. “They don't use
money but coconuts for exchange,”
she said.
Tho second and most unique place
she has visited was Alaska's Little
Diomede Island, she said.
“The island appears to have re
sulted from a volcanic eruption
millions of years ago. The houses
are built into the sides of the island
and one has to go through short
tunnels and enter vertically in the
center of the home.”
The round entrances, she said,
were lined with ivory, skins covered
the floor, seal oil lamps were used
for heat, and each home had a sky
light in the roof to admit air and
light.
She said the people had large un
derground caches which they filled
with i(*> to keep their meat fresh
during the summer.
Hatred can never do good. The
proof is that we endeavor to de
stroy the man we hate, that is we
endeavor to do something that is
bad. The other emotions which arise
from hatred—envy, derision, con
tempt. rage, revenge—are also bad.
— Spinoza (Jewish philosopher).
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LETTERS TO EDITOR
University of Alaska
College, Alaska
Dear Editor:
I feel deeply honored and grateful
to be the recipient of the 16th North
Star Award, given by Tundra
Times.
It came as a most delightful sur
prise, I assure you. However, my
I work with the Alaska Native peo
ple, both adults and youth, has been
so rewarding in friendships that I
j feel that I am the one who has
j gained from our association and am
undeserving of further award.
Here at the University, come
many of my former students, or
children of parents whom I met and
became friends with during my
stay or travels in the “bush.” I
cannot help but take great personal
interest in these young people, pride
in their achievements, and concern
for their problems. I have never -
known a group of young people who
appreciate a personal interest in
them more than the Alaska Native
youth—so this, too, makes any ef
forts expended in their behalf a real
privilege.
I feel that the North Star Award,
bestowed upon me by Tundra ■
Times, carries a special tribute in
that it was awarded by an Alaskan
Native publication.
I thank you very much.
Sincerely yours,
(Mrs.) Laura E. Jones
Director of Admissions
and Registrar
Kasigluk, Alaska
May 15, 1963 v
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