Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Esquimaus in Alaska. [ARTICLE]

Esquimaus in Alaska.

Dr. Jackson says that the condition of the Esquimau, on the Arctic coast of Alaska, is very serious. The destruction of the whale, the walrus and the sea lion, followed by the inroads made upoß the fish of the streams by the canning industries, hare left the natives in an absolutely starving condition, so that the processor slow starvation and extermination has commenced along the Whole Arctic coast of Alaska. Villages that onco numbered thousands have been reduced to hundreds —of some tribes two or three families remain. At Point Barrow, in 1828, Capt. Boechoy’s expedition found Nuwuk, a village of 1,000 people; in 1863 there were 300; now there are not over 100. In 1826 Capt. Beechey speaks of finding a large population at Cape Franklin; to-day it is without an inhabitant. He also mentions a large village of one or two thousand people on Schismorefif Inlet; it has now but three bouses. In this crisis it is important that steps should be taken at

once to afford relief.—[Philadelphia Bulletin.