ERIC ED613600: Tenth Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska, with Map and Illustrations, 1900.

ERIC ED613600: Tenth Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska, with Map and Illustrations, 1900.

Author: ERIC

Year: 1901

Herein, it is stated that the Secretary of the Interior is directed to transmit to the Senate the report of Dr. Sheldon Jackson upon "The introduction of domestic reindeer in the district of Alaska" for 1900. Following a letter of transmittal from the Secretary of Interior to the President of the Senate, this document presents General Agent of Alaska, Sheldon Jackson's tenth annual report. Jackson's report begins by noting the influx of miners and related workers made it hard for him to engage passage from Washington, D.C. to Alaska. Reaching Siberia intending to purchase reindeer, the party found the population ill or recovering from la grippe, measles, and pneumonia. Many herders were ill, and a number had died. Only 29 head of reindeer could be purchased. The epidemic extended throughout the Aleutian Islands on both the Siberian and American sides, as well as on the Lower Yukon River. Hundreds of natives died at the Teller Reindeer station, half of the native population died, including whole families. This occurred during fishing season, diminishing the food supply as so few natives could catch or dry fish. Children from the Teller Reindeer Station and several mission stations w