Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — The Alaska Indians. [ARTICLE]

The Alaska Indians.

There are only 40,000 of the Alaska Indiana. They are indolent and squalid. Their number is constantly decreasing. They live half of their days in canoes made of solid logs, burned out. In the miserable huts are blear-eyed old sinners and half-clad women who will sell whatever they happen to possess, even their child daughters, provided they get their price, and every family have a dog or two as ugly and dirty as their owners. The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station calls attention to the fact that in its experiments potatoes raised from large, whole seed ripened nine days earlier than those from seed cut to tingle eyes.