Northwest History. Alaska. Eskimos.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Indian bureau; Eskimos; Juneau; Alaska; dog team; Point Barrow; Demarcation point; Frank Daugherty; dog sled trip; arctic coastal region; Alaskan-Canadian boundary line; Tom Morgan; Cape Halkett; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Indian; Pacific; Barrow; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90946

Indian Bureau Aids Eskimos. INDIAN BUREAU AIDS ESKIMOS JUNEAU, Alaska, May 23. (/P)— The bureau of Indian affairs today lifted Its ban on nonowners' slaughtering of reindeer for food, and announced it had dispatched a dog team from Barrow to rush emergency rations to relieve hunger in the barren lands between Point Barrow and Demarcation point. The action was taken on recommendations of Frank Daugherty, bureau superintendent at Barrow, who returned from a six-week dog sled trip to investigate the plight of the 300 Eskimos in the vast arctic coastal Demarcation point is the northern terminus of the Alaskan-Canadian boundary line. Daugherty reported by wireless that he found a food shortage, wolves killing many reindeer and caribou and ice making seal-hunting difficult this winter. He said he found only a few isolated instances of actual distress, among them Tom Morgan, white trader at Cape Halkett.