UnalaUetit. .\
I isk.4. l)fft:n!»er
Unalakleet Alaska nov.i* 1916
Mv Dear New friend Alfred Weist:
Dear Sir:
This is my firs! letter you are going
to receive from me. I have : ever
seen you or heard of you before till
now. Well Mr. I' iC.Van Ness is prin
cipal in this school, Mary and I are in
the sixth go- V-. Our teacher s iiil
th it it \v<»nld he ni 'c h> answer yo‘:r
letter tin it \ 0.1 u vote to \V. II. Johnson
fn all our school we have 64 child
ren and ottr school-house is made
out ot boards, singles and nails.
Why did you usk about talking
Kuglisli we co d 1 talk english pretty
well '*e con Id read yourleite as plain
as ;du can. Now we keep our
school-house warm by building iiie
the mori v. g and. keep pr.tti: g in
wood ,;i the stove uli.«u» y till sc I m k * I is
o.rt. Have your school a printi'. g
p and do you ever set any type
end ’o vu't print any paper like our
\To ?harn Light,, that tell you about
i-;sk;iiio ai.d reindeer it cost o: l\ 25
cl.a year to b»y\ that a ' t er.I o \ « >r
e rer see a renv’eer a life? I have
seen liundrcds of times We now are
having lot of fou sku.ti.ig arouu.d. the
riv * • l'!iesc dog de’s you ask :1k>. *.
are sleds that weigh about 100,90,50
l:»sa piece find about 21,19.17,11,9,
7 >o l dogs draw them with 200 to
3 10 in the sleds. Do you have a;.v
i idustriul work.0:1 o: e of vour s-'hoc 1
i1 r- OWc li ive oars c : T-rid ,y ero y
v. eek nub Saturday ve have no school
hut work at home as chop woodai d
g-1 w ter and gibs do sewi *; aid
cooking-and we hoys make anything
we want or what our teaclier give ns.
Aren’t you going to have any*
animal fair tin's winter we are going
to have a reindeer Fair Bigger than
last year at Shaktoolik. Please ;n s*
'ver my letter I will tell yon uiore
next time.
Now lam going to tell you about
Some clothing that we wear du»i. g
the winter, reindeer boots, reindeer
parkey, seal skin hoots seal skin pant*
and in summer time we wear as von
hoys and girls out there, last year we
had school-court we lud 4 police
man from our pupils and 1 judge and
1 sheriff and 1 clerk every Thursduv
we have court Some house are called'
Co nisi! house that is where anybody
and everybody go and look at t?;e
iiskiino dance and some times thev
have a what they call “Pot I7ioh“o.
a big fe ist.
What do yon have at Xmas ti ne?
At Xmas times we have all kinds of
fun ! doubt \ ery much the fun we
got ••ery lit*!*. to the ftm that yoti
got out thee .Any how we are a!l
glu ' that '' e cot new friend and ne
jf!:.-*1 to write to you. We wou’d like
to know ,1! \bon. yon as web as von
to its
I suppose tit it you like to know
what we pi iv m our school yard now
we play tag. bide and go seek ad foot
ball and baseball and whole lot of
•’chei f ames. 1 bout ilnnk volt evei
thought tnai we could speak iiiigtisii
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