Northwest History. Alaska 7. Alcoholic Liquor, United States

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1935
• Subjects: liquor; the Eskimo; Point Barrow area; Dr. Henry Greist; Alaska; Presbyterian medial missionary; Nome Eskimos; liquor prohibition; race; intoxicants; arctic Alaska; mixed-blood residents; territorial liquor board; pre-prohibition regulation; crime; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Eskimo Point; Lent; Pacific; Barrow; eskimo*; Nome; Point Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/88453

Try Keep Liquor From The Eskimo: Those Living In Point Barrow Area Oppose It And Are Supported By Dr. Henry Greist. TRY KEEP LIQUOR FROM THE ESKIMO Those Living in Point Barrow Area Oppose It and Are Supported By Dr. Henry Greist. Barrow, Alaska, Dec. 5.—OP)—Dr. Henry Greist, Presbyterian medical missionary, lent his support today to Nome Eskimos' campaign for liquor prohibition for their race with a statement that Barrow natives themselves would take drastic steps should anyone seek to introduce intoxicants to them. He asserted his entire flock of about 100 natives, most of them now in the interior for the winter, have been teetotalers for the past year. Conditions elsewhere in arctic Alaska are different, however, Greist complained. Have No Will Power. Recognizing that natives are peculiarly susceptible to liquor, leading Eskimos and mixed-blood residents of the Nome area have petitioned the territorial liquor board for the pre-prohibition regulation which made it a crime to even give ft drink to a native or "breed." Before prohibition, liquor was forbidden the natives. With repeal, however, the territorial statute provided that liquor could be sold to any citizen. The natives have been held to be citizens.