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Title: Alaska and the Panama canal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Boyce, William Dickson, 1848-1929
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Ocean; it was to show himthe effect of climate on mankind.This is one of the questions thatmust be seriously considered in con-nection with the development ofAlaska, and the furnishing of a gov-ernment for a country on the ArcticOcean, so far from Washingtonand—Heaven. However, Alaska isa country of many contradictions, ashereafter will become obvious to thereader. The spreading of the Indiansfrom the Arctic to the Antarcticwaters no doubt occupied manythousands of years, indeed so longa period of time that no one evendares to guess its length. The whiterace, however, with superior mindand skill, in a few centuries tookpractically everything away fromthe Indians, an example of the lawof the survival of the fittest. The Esquimaux and Indiansalways believed in the existence ofa Supreme Being and, having a ALASKA II vague belief in a hereafter, they reverently cared for theirdead. For many years the Indians in southeastern Alaskaerected monuments in the shape of carved poles, known as
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AN ANCIENT TOTEM PULE. MR. BOVCE OX LEFT. MR. SCOTTC. BONE ON RIGHT. 12 ALASKA totem poles. These monuments, made of cedar trees, toldthe story of both the male and female sides of the families—they were real family trees. Each Indian family had as itsoriginal stock a name applied to a bird, fish or animal, andintermarriage between the various classes was regarded asextremely bad form. For instance, a Bear could not wed aWolf, but a Bear might take an Eagle as her husband (thewoman was the head of the family) and a Beaver might marrya Salmon. These totem poles related family history extending back sixor seven generations, and, erected all over the country, theycaused Alaska to be known as the land of totem poles andice. They are still considered sacred by the natives, but onaccount of the ravages of time are becoming scarce. Accom-panied by Scott C. Bone, publisher of the Seattle Post-Intclli-gcncer, I was passing by an old Indian burying ground whenwe came upon a totem pole so deca

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