Dili PAPER
(By Associated Press)
NOME, Alaska, Nov. 24.—
Eskimos who fringe the Alas
kail coast for thousands of
miles are celebrating the first
anniversary of their paper
“The Eskimo,” published in
Nome by Walter C. Shields,
superintendent of the noith
west district, with the approv
al of Dr. P. P. Claxton, United
States commissioner of educa
tion. It is said to be the“ farth
est North” newspaper in the
world.
Supported largely by Eski
mo subscriptions it now reach
es every village in Alaska’s
ice bound seaboard. Fur buy
ers from the most distant
camps who have .just arrived
in Nome say that this journal
—the only printed means of
communication the Eskimos
have—is prized so highly that
co]ties are folded away for safe
keeping in the igloo bibles.
Hunting, village and rein
deer news is written and senl
in by the parka clad contribu
tors, who write their copy aftei
coining back from the scare!
for the seal and the walrus, 01
the runaway deer. Editorial!
are added by Mr. Shields, anc
articles by government teach
ers. An interesting series on
the Eskimos of the Stone Ag*1
is ilinning from the pen of Dr.
Daniel S. Neuman, federal
physician in this district, a
widely known ethnologist.
A set of original folk lore
stories will feature the Fall is
sues. They are being written
bv the brightest Eskimos in
each village who will give the
! world the stories of the origin
of his race that have been
handed down from father tr
son. This will crystallize val
uable traditions that have es
caped white investigators, and
which would be lost otherwise.
There is great excitement in
a remote Eskimo village when
the reindeer sled makes it?
monthly apparanee with the
: only newspaper these seal
hunters, trappers and reindei
herders have ever had. Those
Who cannot read—and they are
becoming fewer—squat in cir
cles on the floor of the big vil
lage kozga to listen to some
obliging reader.
, The old men can be seen
i crowding around the seal oi
(lamps where a bright schoo
girl in deer-skin bloomers is
reading about the exploits o
Eskimos .a thousand miles
away. Those who have rein
deer grow alarmed for tin
I
| safety of their own herds wliei
1! the girl reads that the grea
! northern lynx is making a per
•. iodical invasion of the deer oi
i another part of the tundra
l This is a big news, for the rein
• deer is the wealth of the Eski
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mi -in' iirimniiT—ni i ■ —— mu ■ ■
| int) and the lynx are their most
deadly enemy.
Like the American reader in
the southland the Eskimo is
partial to the sporting news.
The excitement is intense when
the issue appears with the news
of the annual winter reindeer
fairs which are carnivals of
reindeer and foot racing, sled
lashing contests and so forth.
“The Eskimo” is welding
the natives of Alaska together
and wiping out the memories
of bloody ancient feuds. More
and more dim are becoming
the traditions of the savage
kayiak bandits of Cape Prince
of Wales, Selawik and Tigara
who massac ed the more
peaceful m min i's of their i’ace
and 1 uilt barriers of hate. The
w dgt. that d ove he Eski
, mos apart are being palled out
I Z
nix] they an* seeing that they
I are one people. All read and
write for the same newspaper
which tells their common inter
cats.
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The Alaska road commission at
work in Skagway under the direction
of T. E. P. Keegan recently complet
ed the work of widening, repairing
and extending the government road
leading from Skagway four miles In
to the valley. From Skagway Mr. Kee
gan will proceed to Haines and after
completing his work there will re
port at headquarters in Juneau for
further work.
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