Northwest History. Alaska. Aviation Cargoes & Passengers.

Plane Takes Eskimo Children To School. Plane Takes Eskimo Children to School ANCHORAGE, Alaska. — — To keep from being tardy, 12 Eskimo children came nearly 500 miles by airplane today to attend school. The long trip, which they usuallly start in skin covered boats and on dog sledges and complete by...

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Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1936
Subjects:
Eskimo
Anchorage
Alaska
airplane
dog sledges
native pupils
Pilot Chester Brown
tri-motored plane
Kotzebue
the bureau of Indian affairs
Northwest
Pacific > History > 20th century
Indian
Pacific
eskimo*
Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/89661
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Summary:Plane Takes Eskimo Children To School. Plane Takes Eskimo Children to School ANCHORAGE, Alaska. — — To keep from being tardy, 12 Eskimo children came nearly 500 miles by airplane today to attend school. The long trip, which they usuallly start in skin covered boats and on dog sledges and complete by steamer, took the native pupils only six hours. Pilot Chester Brown and a mechanic flew them here non-stop in a tri-motored plane from Kotzebue, where they had been gathered by the bureau of Indian affairs.

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