| Summary: | Eskimo Youths Join CCC Camps: Most Of Boys' Work Will Be Connected With Reindeer Herds. ESKIMO YOUTHS JOIN CCC CAMPS. Most of Boys' Work Will Be Connected With Reindeer Herds. JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 23. (/P)— The new deal has reached the Eskimos. The first all-Eskimo.civilian conservation corps has just been established by Charles Burdick, director of Alaska CCC work, who returned here after a seven weeks' trip over much of western Alaska. He said he established arctic CCC camps, manned by Eskimos, at Kotzebue, Buckland, Kivalina, Point Hope and Selawik, and added that ultimately 150 Eskimos will be enrolled. Major projects to be undertaken by the Eskimo tree-troopers include a $5000 airfield runway at Point Hope, erection of reindeer shelter cabins from Cape Lisburne to the Noatak river, a landing field at Kivalina and reindeer corrals at Noatak and Elephant Point head on Kotzebue sound. Another 25 men will be placed in predatory animal control work. Eskimos will have more than passing interest in reindeer work, because the government recently turned over Alaska's reindeer to them. Thus, the Eskimo CCC boys will be working directly for mami and papa when they erect the re deer shelter cabins and corrals.
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