ERIC ED613634: Fourteenth Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska, with Maps and Illustrations. Senate of the United States, 58th Congress, 3rd Session (January 4, 1905). Document No. 61

ERIC ED613634: Fourteenth Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska, with Maps and Illustrations. Senate of the United States, 58th Congress, 3rd Session (January 4, 1905). Document No. 61

Author: ERIC

Year: 1905

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 1904, with maps and illustrations. 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 fourteenth annual report. General Agent of Education in Alaska Sheldon Jackson's 14th annual report on introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska notes that as of June 30, 1904, there were 8,189 head of domestic reindeer in Alaska distributed among 12 herds at 11 stations. Tables break out herd and fawn increase; number of animals sold, butchered, or dead over the course of the reindeer project; head numbers of by sex at the stations in 1904; reindeer loaned; numbers of apprentices and their holdings; congressional appropriations; and expenditures. Jackson stresses that natives need to be taught English and attend industrial schools to learn agriculture, herding, and teaming. Herds have rapidly increased, and two central stations will be established. The large northern Michigan Finn po