Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer Into AlaskaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 |
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act approved August acts of Congress Agent of Education agricultural experiment stations agricultural schools Alaska Commercial Company Alaska the benefits Alaska the domesticated American reindeer animals Arctic Alaska Arctic coast Arctic Eskimo Arctic Ocean barren-ground caribou Bering Sea BUREAU OF EDUCATION Cape Navarin Captain Healy catch Chukchees coast of Alaska Commissioner of Education East Cape Education for Alaska extend to Alaska fire-arms the wild food supply herd of domesticated horticultural capabilities ice fields inaccessible regions instruction in agriculture Interior introduce INTRODUCTION OF REINDEER Kelly Koraks Kotzebue Sound Lapland Lapps M. A. Healy mechanic arts miles moss native races north Pacific Northern Alaska Pacific Ocean Point Barrow Point Hope Point Lay population promote instruction provisions reindeer of Siberia revenue steamer Bear sea otter Sheldon Jackson source of food Territory thousands annually tribes U. S. Commissioner U. S. Revenue Marine vessels W. T. HARRIS walrus Washington whale wild reindeer
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Página 14 - An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several states, under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto.
Página 14 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Página 4 - With the destruction of the whale one large source of food supply for the natives has been cut off. Another large supply was derived from the walrus, which once swarmed in great numbers in those northern seas. But commerce wanted more ivory, and the whalers turned their attention to the walrus, destroying thousands annually for the sake of their tusks.
Página 5 - With the advent of improved breech-loading firearms the wild reindeer are both being killed off and frightened away to the remote and more inaccessible regions of the interior and another source of food supply is diminishing. Thus the support of the people is largely gone and the process of slow starvation and extermination has commenced along the whole Arctic coast of Alaska. Villages that once numbered thousands have been reduced to hundreds; of some tribes but two or three families remain.
Página 14 - ... the mountains, the separation would be impossible. According to custom no one can make a new mark but must buy that of an extinct herd ; if these are scarce the price paid to the families that own them is often high ; the...
Página 4 - The supply of these in years past was abundant and furnished ample food for all the people. But fifty years ago American whalers, having largely exhausted the supply in other waters, found their way into the North Pacific Ocean.
Página 4 - ... walrus, which once swarmed in great numbers in those northern seas. But commerce wanted more ivory, and the whalers turned their attention to the walrus, destroying thousands annually for the sake of their tusks. Where a few years ago they were so numerous that their bellowings were heard abovo the roar of the waves and grinding and crashing of the ice fields, this year I cruised for weeks without seeing or hearing one.
Página 6 - Eskimo, as cattle or sheep-raising in Texas or New Mexico does for the people of those sections. It may be necessary to afford temporary relief for two or three years to the Eskimo, until the herds of domestic reindeer can be started, but after that the people will be self-supporting. As you well know, in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Lapland and Siberia, the domesticated reindeer is food, clothing, house, furniture, implements, and transportation to the people. Its milk and flesh furnish...