All ESKIMO EXPERT III
Just inside the Arctic Circle, only
seventy five miles from the western
roast of Alaska where it borders on
Kotzebue Sound is the villa*.- of
Xoorvlk with three hundred and fif
ty Eskimo population. Here thi
government maintains its most
-northerly wireless station, probably
the farthest north on the globe
messages from this isolated land
being flashed to the outside world
a ia Nome and Xulato. Isaac Xew
Un. in his early twenties, is Noor
vik's native wireless operator
school teacher and mechanical gen
Isaac comes from primitive Eski
mo stock. His ancestors were river
people. Papa Newlin being known as
a Kobuk river man. When Isaa*
was a child the United States Bur
nau of Education had established a
small school at Xoorvik This in
vasion of civilization was at first
regarded apathetically by the na
tives. but being a hospitable people
they soon welcomed the advent of
the school. The mind of Pa New
lin worked slowly but on the right
track. He sent Isaac to school
where he became a bright pupil and
soon passed the si\‘h grad which
was the highest h. could achieve in
the limited educational facilities
About that time the Xoorvik Eski
mos established a co-operative saw
mill and the machinery of this plant
so attracted Isaac that he obtained
employment there He develoned
mechanical genius and besides keep
ing the milt machinery in shape was
in demand v n"never an eii-»<ne !r.
river gas boats went our of com
mission . Establishment of the
government wireless station at Noor
vik was the signal for him to study
the intracacies cf th«- radio and he
bocarne a devout student of Marconi.
With home-made keys he devised a
crude wireless set ani stretched
land wires between the village
mouses. Th- operator of the Noor
vik station loaned the enthusiastic
boy radio books from which he learn
ed the code.
At the time the government decid
ed to install a small radio station at
Kotzebue, less than a hundred miles
distant on the shores of the Arctic
ocean. Isaas, now considered an
adept operator, was sent to Kotte
bue to install the outfit. This mark
ed a new opoch in Federal educa
tion of Far-North natives, for he
was the first Eskimo to operate and
install a wireless station.
Leaving school did not stop Isaac s
thirst for knowledge and he studied
assiduously during the long Arctic
j night. At Kotzebue he took charge
of a small native school, besides op
erating the wireless station and
sending radio messages to the big
station at Noorvik. Later he was
called back to Noorvik and was in
stalled as assistant teacher at a Fed
eral Eskimo school, which is main
tained in connection with a hospital
in that village. Today Isaac is as
sistant teacher at Noorvik, as well
as assistant operator of the radio
I station. Recently he married thei
village belle. Her name is Florence'
! Pommak and she owns sixteen rein-1
| deer in the big Noorvik herd The i
couple live in a two-story frame j
! house, neatly furnished with .-‘omei
of the attractions advertised in maiF
order catalogues.
In addition to his other talents.
Isaac sings in the Noorvik choir.
An Eskimo choir may seem a novel
' ty tb an American, but each year the
1 village choir of the Eskimo river
country assemble at Kotzebue to
compete for the honor of winning
memorial banner presented to the
best Eskimo choristers Isaacs
warblers won second p*-ize at the
last event.
Young Newlin, with other progres
sive natives, is now seeking civic
improvements in his village Noor
vik is the historic Eskimo village |
that was built over-night. The i
Xoorvik natives originally lived at I
Deering on the bleak Arctic aea|
coast where they made their homes]
in the semi-underground hovels of
their ancestors because of lack of,
timber. Food was also scarce, so
the populace one day packed up and
drove their dogs and reindeer near
ly two hundred miles up the Kobuk
river, where the government present
ed them with a domain fifteen miles
square and abounding in game, fish
and timber. On this tract in the
Arctic wilderness Isaac and his par
ents and the other colonists under
the leadership of the government
teachers built a village with well
laid out streets, neat single-family
houses, garden, a mercantile com
pany, a sawmill, an electric light
plant, and a wireless telegraph sta
tion which keeps them in touch with
the outside World.
It is the present plan to have a
network of wireless stations connect
ing the Eskimo villages, supplement
ing the present government stations
which are now engaged In flashing
weather reports to the outside
world, in addition to doing a lucra
tive commercial business for the
government. With the establish
ment of this chain of wireless sta
tions. covering a vast area of al
most inaccessible barrens reaching
even to the isolated islands and dan
gerous coasts of the Bering and Arc
tic seas, there will be provided an
interesting field for ambitious Es
kimo youths. Also, this radio sys
tem may prove of incalculable bene
fit to mariners operating on the dan
gerous coasts of the Far North.—
Sunset Magazine.
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suant to an act of the Legislature of
the Territory of Alaska, approved
May 1st, 1919. Entitled—"An Act
to impose a tax upon'male persons
in the Territory of Alaska for School
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assembled. That sections 2 of “An
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SEC. 2 That section 23 24 of the
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i within which the work required be
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i Territory of Alaska, shall commence
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day of July succeeding the date of
location of such claim: Provided
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December 31. 1921, shall continue
to 12 o’clock meridian July 1, 1922,.”
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