Out of Harm’s Way: Relocating Northwest Alaska Eskimos, 1907–1917
As Europeans explored and exploited America, they encountered the problem of what to do with the Indians who lived on the land. The newcomers’ land hunger, superior numbers, and overwhelming economy and technology ultimately pushed the natives aside. Removal and the creation of progressively smaller...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9m95z720 2023-09-05T13:18:31+02:00 Out of Harm’s Way: Relocating Northwest Alaska Eskimos, 1907–1917 Ducker, James H. 1996-01-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9m95z720 unknown eScholarship, University of California qt9m95z720 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9m95z720 CC-BY-NC American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol 20, iss 1 displacement preserve natives Alaska article 1996 ftcdlib 2023-08-21T18:07:37Z As Europeans explored and exploited America, they encountered the problem of what to do with the Indians who lived on the land. The newcomers’ land hunger, superior numbers, and overwhelming economy and technology ultimately pushed the natives aside. Removal and the creation of progressively smaller reservations were the answers settled upon by many whites who coveted Indian lands. Throughout this history of displacement, however, some of those who promoted reservations did so for more noble motives. They sought to preserve natives, if not native societies, away from the evils of the newcomers and to buy time with space by taking the Indians far enough from the encroaching whites that they might learn at a measured pace from friendly missionaries and teachers the rudiments of the expanding culture so they could deal with it on a more equal basis. The themes of covetousness and conscience worked in tandem as Americans moved west. But they were not so closely linked in Alaska, particularly in the territory’s remote northwest corner. During and following the turn-of-the-century gold rushes to Nome and several smaller discoveries, there was little reason for westerners to crave the lands that drained into the Bering Sea. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Sea eskimo* Nome Alaska University of California: eScholarship Bering Sea Indian |
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As Europeans explored and exploited America, they encountered the problem of what to do with the Indians who lived on the land. The newcomers’ land hunger, superior numbers, and overwhelming economy and technology ultimately pushed the natives aside. Removal and the creation of progressively smaller reservations were the answers settled upon by many whites who coveted Indian lands. Throughout this history of displacement, however, some of those who promoted reservations did so for more noble motives. They sought to preserve natives, if not native societies, away from the evils of the newcomers and to buy time with space by taking the Indians far enough from the encroaching whites that they might learn at a measured pace from friendly missionaries and teachers the rudiments of the expanding culture so they could deal with it on a more equal basis. The themes of covetousness and conscience worked in tandem as Americans moved west. But they were not so closely linked in Alaska, particularly in the territory’s remote northwest corner. During and following the turn-of-the-century gold rushes to Nome and several smaller discoveries, there was little reason for westerners to crave the lands that drained into the Bering Sea. |
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Out of Harm’s Way: Relocating Northwest Alaska Eskimos, 1907–1917 |
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