METLAKAHTLA 



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would take away from them the water power which runs 

 their sawmill, and the salmon on which they depend for 

 support. Such a wrong should not be permitted. 



The Harriman expedition first saw Alaska Indians at 

 this village of New Metlakahtla. We landed here on 



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NEW METLAKAHTLA. 



Sunday morning, early in June, and were most kindly re- 

 ceived by Mr. Duncan, who showed us about through the 

 public buildings, talked entertainingly of his experience 

 with these Indians, and later preached in Tsimpsian a ser- 

 mon to a large congregation of Indians. 



The village, as we wandered through it that Sunday 

 morning, was like an old-fashioned New England hamlet 

 in its peaceful quiet. There was no one abroad. Until 

 the church bell began to ring the people remained in their 

 houses, and then from each door a little family stepped 

 out, and all took their way toward the church until the 

 broad board walks near the edifice were crowded with 

 the people. It would be hard to imagine a more deco- 

 rous and attentive audience ; obviously their thoughts 

 were fixed on the discourse to which they were listening, 



