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An Appeal to Congress
FOR
— JUSTICE —
TO THE
NATIVE PEOPLE OF
SOUTHERN ALASKA
GRAND CAMP
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Ketchikan, Alaska
September 17,1925
Dear Sir:
We appeal to you as a member of the
American Congress to use your influence
and your voting power to correct the un
bearable conditions that have been imposed
* on the native people of Southern Alaska by
the Department of Commerce of the United
States in its administration of the Alaskan
fisheries.
From time immemorial our people have
subsisted by hunting, fishing and trapping.
Many of the islands upon which our fathers
hunted and trapped have now been pre
empted by white men for raising foxes.
The intensive hunting and trapping by the
whites has almost destroyed our fur sup
ply. The sea otter upon which we formerly
relied for food and clothing is now almost
extinct, while the restrictions placed upon
the killing of fur seal makes our revenue
from that industry almost nothing.