Northwest History. Alaska. Eskimos.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Eskimo; Kotzebue; Alaska; John S. Backland; Seattle trader; United States; Lewis B. Schwellenchbach; Point Barrow; C. S. Holmes; University of Washington; Bering; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Pacific; The Schooner; Barrow; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90960

Hungry Eskimo Yarn All "Bunk." HUNGRY ESKIMO YARN ALL 'BUNK' By Associated Press. KOTZEBUE, Alaska, Aug. 25. (/P)— Captain John S. Backland, Seattle trader, today said he wirelessed United States Senator Lewis B. Schwellenchbach suggesting an investigation of "the starving Eskimo story in the Point Barrow area." He arrived from Barrow, over the week-end, in his famed schooner, the C. S. Holmes, and reported the arctic district "teeming with caribou, reindeer, ducks and fish." Captain Backland, scholarly University of Washington graduate who inherited the schooner and Bering and arctic trade of his father, the late Captain John S. Backland Sr., said he informed Senator Schwellenbach that "so-called relief hurts every one, as the natives will refuse to hunt. It hurts the country to get Eskimos used to white man's grub and kills their self reliance."