Northwest History. Alaska. Eskimos.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1919
• Subjects: blond Eskimos; Canada; Fort Yukon; Alaska; Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Leo Wittenberg; mush; the States; the Arctic; Victoria Land; white race; Herschel island; Arctic post; MacKenzie river; Greenlanders; W. J. Bower; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bower; Herschel Island; Mackenzie River; Pacific; Stefansson; Wittenberg; Yukon; eskimo*; greenlander*; Herschel; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90775

Won't Disturb Blond Eskimos Explorer Found: Canada Forbids Trading, Hunting Or Mission Work Among Fair Tribe. WON'T DISTURB BLOND ESKIMOS EXPLORER FOUND Canada Forbids Trading, Hunting or Mission Work Among Fair Tribe. FORT YUKON, Alaska. April 1. -- (By Mail.) -- "Blond Eskimos" discovered by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the explorere, in the far northern Arctic, are to be let alone in their uncivilized aboriginal state, according to Leo Wittenberg, a trader and whaler who stopped on his "mush" from the Arctic ocean to the States. The Canadian government, Mr. Wittenberg said, has forbidden all white people from the outside world to trade, trap or even visit in the section of Victoria Land, where the strange white race lives. Even missionaries can not go into the country, he asserted. Canada's orders are being enforced by the constables of the royal northwest mounted police from the police station at Herschel island, an Arctic post at the mouth of the MacKenzie river. Wittenberg said he went among the "blond Eskimos" a year after Stefansson's discovery and established a post where he engaged in trading, whaling and trapping. He remained there, he asserted, until Canadian authorities requested him to leave. Corroborates Explorer. Wittenberg's description of the strange race coincides with that given by Stefansson. They have blue eyes, light hair and European features in general, he said. Authorities believe the tribe descended from early Greenlanders. Reports brought out of the north about a year ago by W. J. Bower, one of Stefansson's companions, said the "blond Eskimos" used bows and arrows, dressed in skins, used flints for making fires and knew absolutely nothing of the great outside world lying to the south.