An Indian Views The
Mysteries of Gvilization
Do You Get The Point?
What is civilization? What does
the word mean?
Does it mean robbing banks and
taking part in hold-ups? Or does
it mean making moonshine and hav
ing redlight districtB where women
sell themselves?
A man told me that Inventions
were civilization. Look at the auto
mobiles! Yes, but look at the rob
beries that are done with the auto
mobiles, look at the girls that are
is drunk, look at the girls that are
ruined,and the lives lost by such
new inventions. What about the
flying machine! 1*3 that civiliza
tion? Or the picture show, or th^
radio? That may be what civiliza
tion means, but I am not satisfied
yet.
Then a man told me that the
way people dress is civilization. 1
see a woman with bare arms, law
necked dress and skirts above her
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knees. Is that civilization? My
good friend, when the IT. S. A
bought Alaska, they found the Tn-.
diairs in that state. You white men
called the barbarians. Now be
cause the white man does it, it is
called civilization.
What about bobbed hair, th^
latest fashion in civilization. TheJ
bobbed hair was the fashion
amongst the Alaska Indians manvf
years ago. Whenever a woman'4
mother or brother died, her liaicj
was bobbed. When I was a child
in Wrangell, I heard a white mail
say, “Look at the savage womart
with her hair cut short.” And now
because the whites do it, it is call
ed civilization.
Wliat about the Charleston that
all the civilized white people are
dancing? Fifty years ago when the
white man saw an Alaskan dance
It, he called it a savage dance. And
now, because the white man does it
himself, he calls it civilization.
I don’t know, but I think civi
lization is the only tiling that can
settle the race problem.
S. G. DAVIS
MINING IN ALASKA
Mines in Alaska produced $17,
657,800 worth of minerals in 1926,
as against $18,220,692 in 1925, ac*
cording to an announcement made
by the Interior Department today
through the Geological Survey. The
total value of the mineral output
of the Teritory since 1880 is $571,
000,000.
About 5 6 per cent of the gold
produced during 1926 came from
placers, and of this amount nearly
61 per cent was mined by dredges,
of which there were 32 in operation
in different parts of the Territory,
This method of placer mining prom
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succeeding years, because during
1926 several of the dredges were
not operated through the entire
season, owing either to time spent
in completing them or to the ex- '
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some purely local cause, and plans
are already under way for building
additional dredges at a number of
pieces in the near future.
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