REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION 



It was generally agreed, however, that the Esquimaux was more likely 

 than the Indian to become a herder, but several of the most experienced mission- 

 aries thought that the latter could also be trained, though it would take some 

 time and efiort to make him reliable and efficient. 



Your commissioners desire to emphasize the importance of securing the 

 services of skilled Lapp herders to take charge of any reindeer herds which may 

 be established, and to act as instructors to either white men or natives who may 

 later be entrusted with the care of reindeer. 



Method of Packing Reindeer — Alaska. 



Courlesey of Carl Lomen, Nome, Alaska. 



Lapps as Herders — 



In this connection your commissioners desire to call attention to Appendix 

 No. XI to this report, in which are embodied excerpts from letters written by 

 Dr. Grenfell to Mr. Jose Machado, Secretary of the Canadian Branch of the 

 International Grenfell Association, and by Mr. W. A. Kjellman, of Los Angeles, 

 California, to the National Parks Branch of the Department of the Interior, 

 suggesting that immediate steps be taken by the Canadian authorities to secure 

 as settlers in the Canadian Labrador a considerable number of Lapps, who, 

 owing to the reindeer ground in Norway and Sweden being now fully taken up, 

 are debarred from extending the industry in these countries. 



Your commissioners are of opinion that the movement of these people 

 from Lapland to Canada at the present juncture would be most desirable from 

 every point of view, and would strongly urge that the matter be gixen immediate 

 attention. 



If, as is suggested, they could be induced to bring with them considerable 

 numbers of reindeer, they would be of the greatest possible assistance to the 

 Government in carrying out the policy recommended in this report of planting 

 experimental herds in a number of different localities. 



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