OOl^TENTS. 



Page. 



Action of tlie Senate of the United States 5 



Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the President of the Senate 7 



Report of Dr. Sheldon Jackson, United States general agent of edncation in 

 Alaska, to the Commissioner of Education, on the introduction of domestic 



reindeer into A] aska for 1895 9 



Private benefactions H 



Appropriations of Congress 13 



Importation of Lapps 14 



Distribution of reindeer 15 



Possibilities of the future 16 



Effect upon the development of Alaska 16 



Disbursements Ig 



APPENDIXES. 



Report of William Hamilton on the itinerary of 1895 21 



Annual report of William A. Kjellmann 42 



Trip to Lapland 43 



Arrival at Teller Reindeer Station 54 



Statistics of the herd 55 



Finiug a reindeer thief 57 



Breaking in deer 60 



The birth of fawns 61 



Milkiug 63 



Eskimo dogs 63 



Herders and apprentices 65 



Rations 72 



Reindeer dogs 73 



Harness 75 



The Lapps 77 



Sealing 7g 



Fishing 79 



Eskimo herd gQ 



Sickness 82 



School 82 



Buildings 83 



Police 84 



Christmas 85 



Skees 85 



Physician 88 



Fuel 89 



Annual report of W. T. Lopp, Cape Prince of Wales, herd 91 



Letter of J. C. Widstead to Dr. Sheldon Jackson 93 



Letter of Dr. Sheldon Jackson to Hon. W. T. Harris, LL. D 95 



Log book of Teller Reindeer Station for 1894-95 97 



Report on meteorology 127 



Action of National Educational Association 131 



Action of Lake Mohonk Indian Conference 131 



Action of Conference of Board of Indian Commissioners and others 131 



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