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INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC RP:INDP:ER INTO ALASKA. 



loaned to the missionar}^ stations for the purpose of instruction of the 

 natives. But an average of five years' apprenticeship is needed for 

 the full training of apprentices in the management of reindeer. 



These herds have been loaned on the condition that they be used 

 as apparatus for the instruction of natives in the art of herding deer 

 and training them to harness, and on condition that after five years 

 the Government may take from the herd a number of deer in good 

 condition, equal to the original number furnished, the stations retain- 

 ing the increase. 



Reindeer loaned. 



Station. 



Number 

 loaned. 



When loaned. 



When due. 



Wales (Congregational) 



Golofnin Bay (Swedish Lutheran) 



Tanana ( Kpiscopal) 



Nils Klemetsen 



Barrow (Presbyterian) 



Gambell, St. Lawrence Island (Presbyterian) 



Teller (Norwegian Lutheran) ' 



Nulato { Roman Catholic) 



Bethel ( Moravian) 



Nils Persen Sara 



Ca rmel (Moravian) 



Per M. Spein 



Kotzebue ( Friends) 



Alfred S. Nilima 



Unalakleet (Swedish Lutheran) 



Ole O. Bahr 



118 

 .50 

 50 

 100 

 100 

 70 

 100 

 100 

 88 

 100 

 88 

 100 

 9o 

 V9 

 100 

 100 



Aug., 1894 

 Jan. 16,1896 



do 



July 1, 1902 

 Sept., 1898 

 July, 1900 

 Sept. 1,1900 

 Mar., 1901 

 Feb. 20,1901 

 July, 1901 

 Feb. 26,1901 

 July, 1901 

 Sept. 2,1901 

 July, 1901 

 July 1,1903 

 July 1, 1901 



Gift. 

 Returned. 



Do. 

 July 30, 1907. 

 Returned. 

 June 30, 1905. 

 Aug. 31, 1905 

 Mar., 1906. 

 Feb., 1906. 

 June 30, 1906 

 Feb., 1901. 

 June, 1906. 

 Sept., 1906. V 

 June 30, 1906. 

 June .30. 1908 

 June 30, 1906. 



REINDEER AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE CIVILIZATION OF THE 



ESKIMOS. 



The President in his recent message to Congress calling attention 

 to the changed conditions which have come to the natives of Alaska 

 with the advent of large numbers of white men in their country 

 emphasizes their need of attention, especially in the w^ay of industrial 

 schools and hospitals. 



This raises the question, how can the natives of Alaska be made 

 valuable helpers and assistants in the development of the country by 

 white men now there engaged in mining, and in doing so provide a 

 good support for themselves and families ? 



Any successful method of accomplishing such desirable results 

 must keep clearly in view the aim to prepare the natives to become 

 a help to the immigrants who come from the States for the purpose of 

 conducting mining operations. There are two things which the 

 native may be taught to do which will enable him to help the immi- 

 grant: First, he may be taught how^ to create a supply of cheap food; 

 second, he may be taught how to supply a cheap transportation by 

 means of reindeer. It is known that in the river valleys certain 

 garden vegetables may be produced in large quantities even up to 

 the Arctic Circle and for 50 miles bevond it. The native knows how 



