KOIMAK. ALASKA.
!)!•’. KMUK1I, l!Ho.
Vol. XVI. No. !>
MAKING OVEk A RACE —A BIG CONTRACT
This is an excellent illustration of the older Native Americans nf Alaska.
Many of them watch with regret the gradual hat sure changing of the old
order. They are awed by the modern ways of doing things and shake their
heads. Turning to the erode, age-old methods of producing the things their
simple lives require, they are satisfied and prefer to he let alone. Our most
absorbing problem is not with these but with their sons and daughters.
Are we sure some of our methods are not age-old and crude? Not crude
because age-old; tmt obsolete, with lack of both appeal and applicatian to the
growing mind; f tiling from lack of real inteiest expression and from age for
getting the view point of youth. Whether our teaching now prove fruitful or
futile depends upon its service in fitting the youth to respond to the demands
of his environment when he is grown up. Will it fit him or unfit him for
best serving his generation?