The remains of. The chief occupation of Barrow people is hunting game. In win-. Trappers sell their skins. In wolf hunting they get a.
They can also sell the skins at the stores. Wolf is used for parka ruffs. The legs are used for high boots, which are. The seals are also very useful. The meat is used for food and. The skin. It is used for fines, seal nets, and waterproof. The Ugrood skins are also used for boot soles, for.
There is also a reindeer company owned by the natives. They butcher reindeer in fall and summer. The meat is used for food while the skin is used for parkas, fur pants and. The meat is sometimes sold to the whites at. In the month of April there is whaling.
This is the most import-. When one whale is caught everyone in the village. Sometimes when the whalers are fortunate enough they would. The skin boots are used in whal-. Once in a while the whale boats are used for whaling. The meat and muk-. Page 7. After the ice breaks away, usually in July, they start walrus. The walrus hunting is the most exciting tine I've ever had in. When you get into a big herd like a hundred or two hundred on. The walrus hunters just right.
Sometimes the men would get up on the ice and shoot. They can punch holes in boats with their. The meat is used for dog feed in the winter and the tusks are sold.
To make money a few people work for the whites and in the sum-. In the fall they cut ice for the stores and earn more money. There is also the whalebone basket making, which which increasing. An expert basket. For fuel we use pitch instead of coal. Driftwood is also used. There is a pitch lake about 65 miles from Barrow.
There are three stores in Barrow; two owned by whites and one. The latter is getting bigger and better every year. For recreation we skate in the fall; play fall; football and. On Christmas we play lots. After the whaling season is over we celebrate the. We have blanket tossing from. Our traveling in winter if by dogteam; in summer by skinboats,.
The mail carrier comes by dogteam three or four tines dur-. We have a radio stationoperated by the Signal Corps. For government we have a U. Commissioner and also a village. Page 8. Barrow is located on the farthest north tip of the Terri-. It is all tundra where no trees grow and no vegetables. It is about one thousand miles north of Eklutna.
The temperature at Barrow goes about 50 degrees above zero. The people of Barrow work as longshoremen, janitors, car-. The people live on whale meat, seals, polar bears, walrus,. There are many things which keep the people of Barrow busy. The women make parkas, boots, gun-cases, sleeping bags for men in the.
The men work at repairing. In the winter the boys and young men often play football. Sometimes we go for dogteam rides just with three to five dogs, for. We often play volley ball for recreation. On the 4th of July everyone gathers for a big celebration. The village is governed by the commissioner and the native. Page 9. Barrrow is located on the northernmost part of. Just because it is located there, most of the. The temperature is about.
The population is approximately Mostof the people make their living by hun-. Spring, walrus in Summer, and some of the people go u p. So a fellow is kept very busy during the year.
In spite of all the things that the people. Holidays like Christmas and the 4th of July are. Games are played which they like. This summer the favorite ones were baseball and foot-.
Five years ago just before I left. Men and women, boys and girls,. I have ever seen that happen. Nowadays just the young. Practically all the traveling where I come. We have long winters up there. My dad is always anxious to go out walrus. Without the dogs he can't have the job of carrying. Summer they use laun-. Airplanes are used rarely, and the wireless. The village is governed by the commissioner.
The commissioner hasn't much to. Page During the winter months we get our mail. Summer we get mail by. Like last summer, quite a few planes.
Russian plane. All the whites up there have radios. The operator broadcasts twice a week, so the. Circle on the Yukon River. Thiss small town has. There are. These are low hills, however, with a. The trappers sell their fur. Those who trap in the winters usu-. In summer the boys swim.
Some of us. United States marshal. Contacts are made. My home is located on mission ground--where. Now the people from below the town. The pop-. In the winter it gets very cold; January is. When one travels from place to. The people fish starting in June or July. In the winter there is some fishing for pikes,.
To earn money many of. The Eskimos there trap or hunt fur-bearing animals. Recreations are Eskimo dances and games,. There are three schools in and near Bethel. Two are in town and one is about 18 miles above. One in Bethel is a government native. The territorial. Travel is done mostly by dogteam in the win-.
There is. Bethel is governed by a U. The Eskimos have to have a. Cantwell, Alaska is the name of my hone town. It's a big name. It's just a small village on the Alaska Railroad.
McKinley National Park. How many people live in Cantwell; only between 20 and Cantwell is a good hunting ground, most people travel around by dogteam. Many of the people go outside from Cantwell after the freezeup.
Most all of the houses have radios; radio is about the only. The snow gets very deep in the wintertime and sometimes the. There are lots of brown bears and lots of blueberries around. We stay clear of the bears and eat the berries. Some people like Cantwell but it's too small for me. Chignik is located on the lower side of the Alaska Peninsula. The climate there in the winter is rather cold. It snows a lot and blows. In the sunnier it is sunny most of the. There are four canneries at Chignik but only one is operating,.
Before when the Alaska Packers. Crosby used to take in only natives from. Perryville and most of the Chignik natives for help. We fish in the summer, for all kinds of fish. The natives buy.
And they also put. In the winter the natives go up to the. Some of the white people. There are three stores and a liquor store which is owned by. We do not have a marshal there. But if some-. Peterson, the marshal. There were two schools; one government and one territorial.
When the boys and girls are thru with grade school they can either go. Some of the boys and girls that are old enough to work in the. Circle is my home town, and is located near the Arctic. Circle; at one time, in the early days it was thought our village. In the early days there were five or six thousand people.
I do not know much. During the winter, most of the people hunt and trap out in. Some go to wood camps where they cut wood for. In the summer, most of the people. Winter is the time for many parties, dances, and all the. During the summer, there are usually parties only when the boats come. We receive our mail every week during the winter; it comes. In the summer, buses carry the.
Yukon bring mail from both up-and down-river. In Circle we have a telephone system, tho there are very. Many families have their own radios. Circle is up along the Yukon River;.
In the winter the weather is. In the summer. It rains and blows a good deal in the. In the summer they make fish. Those are the only ways of making money. The men and boys go hunting and dry the meat. They dance on holidays only, and have. Church every Sunday. The women and men some-. In the winter they go outdoors and. There is a store in Circle, where.
They have a radio station. There is a road from Circle to Fair-. We get most of. Even in. My home is located in the Bering Sea, one hundred and eighty. The name of the island is Diomede.
The climate of Diomede is much warmer than the mainland in the. The termperature ranges from twenty to thirty-five below. In order to protect ourselves from cold, we use. The parkas are made from reindeer and squirrel. She mukluks are made from either reindeer legs or seal skins.
In the summer we wear lighter clothing. In the first part of July, we. We have very little rain,. The approximate number of people on the island is one hundred and. The people at hone make their living by hunting and carving. Fishing is not so common. The fish they catch are bullheads,. There is also some crabbing in the winter time. The people over on big Diomede Island do more trapping than we do for. The Russians do not allow any Amer-. In April we start to.
Recreations at home are skating, snowshoeing, hand ball, foot-. Since there are no movies, the people spend the. There is no traveling in winter time at Diomede, except going. The distance is about five miles, and in the winter the. In the summer we. They either go to. Siberia or Wales. In July half of the population goes to Nome to spend. Most of our carving and skin sewing is sold at. The village is run or governed by the village council.
A long time ago the village was run. The old Russian name of the two is-. That was when the village was run by a chief. I don't know why the name was changed to "Diomedes". There is no wireless communication on the island, except the. No airplane comes to Diomede except for some. The MS North Star brings. At the same time. The Coast Guard cutter. Northland comes in twice during the summer to look after the natives.
In order to improve the village there should be a doctor and. They should have a wireless. In order to have more. Note: Married Kate Brower, of Barrow, now teaching arts and crafts.
Lay, for the Office of Indian Affairs; two children. My real home is at Eagle, which is about seventeen miles from the. Canadian boundary line. The climate there is very different during the. The fomer are nice and warm, but the winters. There are just about two hundred people living in Eagle, counting. To earn their livings, the Indians often dry and sell fish to the.
In the winter some of them trap wild fur-. The rest of us cut wood for the steamers which travel. For recreation our people play games like running races, boxing. On the Fourth of July prizes are given to the winners. On every holi-. We travel by dogteams and steamers or on our own boats if we own. The village and town are governed by a U. Marshal and some. The Indians have their council, which was formed to help.
If we want to hear from our neighbors or friends in other towns. Letters and. If my people wanted to make more money in different ways, they. There are lots.
Egegik is in Bristol Bay. It isn't a very big place—there's. There are two canneries. There is a restaurant which is. We also have a building in the village called the poolroom,. People in Egegik make their living by fishing for the canneries,.
We travel by. I don't think Egegik is a very pretty place; there are no trees. We all have wooden houses and have almost all the things that the white. There are two stores, one owned by Mr.
Evans and the other. Elim is located on Norton Sound, on the coast. Every Spring and. Fall one of the Coast Guard cutters stops there.
Each time they bring. The town is just Elim is surrounded by trees and mountains. The trees there are. In the springtime when we go out walking we pick wild flowers. There are about people in Elim.
In the summer we go out. During the fishing season only two or three. We stay away for two and one-half months. Of course, some of us go back to the Elim to visit. When we are through. We put the berries into big. Transportation is mainly by dogteams, boats with outboard motors,. Most of the people fish for a living, but some go to other.
The people at Elim are going to have a cooperative store soon. We live in log houses and get our water from the creek nearby. The mail boat comes only twice a month in the summer, but there.
Benjamin Daniels. Flat is located in a long flat valley with. It is about miles. The population in the summer is about ,. Outside during the winter and come back in the. The climate is very hot during the summer;. Most of the people work for wages-- some on.
The only recreations they have at Flat are. Most of the people travel by plane. Fortuna Ledge, or Marshal [Marshall], as it is gen-. The climate is satisfactory for raising. The average temperature. The population varies a great deal due to. In summer, prac-. Creek gold mine which is nearly ten miles from Marshal. Other men and boys cut wood for the steamer "Nenana". In winter, mail is carried by. The three chief sports are: dancing,.
Swimming is not very common. However, some of the younger residents take the. Traveling is done by boat, dogteam or air-. The latter is used mostly for long distance trav-. The dogs play a great part in carrying. Michael after the Yukon has frozen. The town is governed by a deputy-marshal. The marshal takes care of the "bad. Holy Cross, When cases are brought for a trial the com-. I am glad to say that. Close contacts from the outlying districts.
The daily. There are various ways in which the com-. There is one underground water supply but looking at it. Fort Yukon is located, at the widest part. It is about 5 miles above the. Arctic Circle. The climate there differs very much in. The coldest I have known it to. In the summer it goes as high. The average number of people at. Fort Yukon in the summer is about or more, but in. During the summer the people go to fish. Salmon is the most valuable fish up there.
Some of it is dried in strips and others sliced. Lynx, marten, beaver,. In May. Every week we have a dance and a movie. In the Fall every one is enjoying skating and the first. On the holidays there is always a big. A certain group of people give what is known as. People travel from one place to another by. The village is governed by a deputy marshal.
If anything goes wrong the marshal takes. If it is too ser-. We hear from people from other villages. Mountain Village, AK. New Stuyahok. Nome, AK. North Pole. Old Harbor. Palmer, AK. Petersburg, AK.
Pilot Station. Point Hope. Russian Mission. Sand Point. Scammon Bay. Seward, AK. Mary's, AK. Michael, AK. Paul, AK. Sterling, AK. Thorne Bay. Toksook Bay.
Two Rivers, AK. Valdez, AK. Wainwright, AK. Whittier, AK. Willow, AK. Home Value Estimate. Unit optional :. Recent Home Sales. It is just 38 miles from the town of Petersburg in the Inside Passage. The latest population was around year-round residents. Flickr - Travis.
McGrath is a small village in Western Alaska. Despite its small population, the village is an important transportation and economic hub for the area.
Flickr - Robert Montgomery. Moose Pass is an unincorporated community of just over two hundred people on the Kenai Peninsula. The latest population was said to be roughly Surrounded by the Chugach National Forest, Moose Pass is located miles south of Anchorage and 30 miles north of the town of Seward. Visitors to Moose Pass can enjoy hiking, flight-seeing, fishing, yummy food, delicious homemade fudge and wonderful hospitality.
Living in Alaska is taken to a whole new level in Moose Pass. Flickr - Emma Forsberg. Naknek is located in the Bristol Bay Borough of Alaska. The latest population number was around year-round residents. The local economy is almost entirely based on world-class salmon fishing. In the summertime the population will boom well into the tens of thousands as visitors come to take responsible advantage of the extraordinary fisheries. Old Harbor is a city located on Kodiak Island in southern Alaska.
Kodiak is separated from mainland Alaska by the Shelikof Strait. The latest population from shows about year-round residents. Visitors to Kodiak Island can enjoy taking in the rich history as well as activities such as fishing, hunting and wildlife viewing. Flickr - Paul Quesnell. The population is said to be around Port Lions was built to house the inhabitants of Ag'waneq from the neighboring island of Afognak and Port Wakefield from Raspberry Island, after their villages were destroyed by the Good Friday earthquake in Fishing, hunting and hiking are great activities to tackle when in Port Lions.
Seldovia a happy and sprightful town located on the Kenai Peninsula, just a boat-ride away from the town of Homer. The year-round population of Seldovia is around but in the summertime this number grows as visitors come to enjoy to unique town.
There is no road system connecting the town to other communities, so all travel to Seldovia is by airplane or boat. Activities in Seldovia include hiking, fishing and kayaking. Talkeetna is a quaint and quirky town located off the George Parks Hwy as you head north from Anchorage to Denali.
The latest year-round population was said to be around The historic village of Talkeetna is nestled at the base of North America's tallest peak Mt. McKinley Denali. Activities in Talkeetna include float trips, riverboat tours, slight-seeing, fishing, hiking, ATV tours and more. This town is one of the most famous of the small towns in Alaska. Teller is a very rural town located in the Nome area on the Seward Peninsula.
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