WOl LI) THK JUNEAU ( HAMBKK
OF (OMMKIU’K ENDORSE THIS
HAS THE DOUGLAS (HAMBKK
OF COMMEKCE EVER
PROTESTED
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We remember what a fight tlid
.Htneau Chamber of Commerce put
up to save the Land Office from be
ing transferred (at the request of
Governor George Parks) to Anchor
age alt ho tlu* loss of that office only
meant about five thousand dollars.
And yet the Gastineau Channel
people have never done a thing to
t orrect the wrong done the fishermen
i f the Talui River which results in
more than $20,000 worth of dam
age to the Channel residents.
The Natives c.f Douglas have pre
sented thoii case in the following
sironglv supported document.
Resolution No. (>
THE TAKl RIVER DEAD LINE
We. the Giand Camp of the ALAS
KA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD, re
presenting more than five thousand
natives of southeastern Alaska, re
spectfully petit:on the Secretary of
Commerce of the United States to
give relief to the fishermen of the
Taku River by moving the dead line
hack to its original position, towit,
one mile above the Native Village
( a the Taku Flats.
In support thereof we affirm
(1) The new line (four miles below
'be old dead line and three miles
below the Native Village) has com
pelled our people to virtually aban
don their ancient homes and move
tc Taku Point, a bare rocky pro
montory, exposed to all kinds of
weather without shelter for boats.
(2) The new line compells fishing
at a point where the Taku Glacier
shoots ice bergs into the channel,
v here the larger ones are stuck
making it very dangerous to life
and resulting already in the death
of several Natives by drowning;
(:») The old dead line was sufli
(ient for all purposes of conservation
because the river channel is very
wide at that point, and the flood
waters reach seven milts above the
< Id native village.
(4> Because tlie full burden of
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Established in 19C6
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conservation has been by this change
nlaced on the native fishermen and
1.0ik* whatever placed on the larger
( i tside inte rests who take their toll
of salmon by tin millions both in
Frederick Sound and in ley Straits.
\Y< ask why compell our people to
reduce their already ismall catch
while these great outside interests
are allowed to take their millions of
1 mon.
Adopted unanimously on Novem
b(*r 24, 192S, and ordered that cop
ies be sent to the Secretary of Com
merce, to th** Bureau of Fisheries,
and to Delegate Dan Sutherland.
WILLIAM L. PAUL,
Grand President
Attest
S.WDY A. STEVENS,
Grand Secretary
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