The Nome nugget., 1903-12-02
The Siberian Natives As Socialists

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 believe can safely say that these Tchuchs are the most filthy and dirty inhabitants of the earth's surface. Were it not for the intensely cold and wonderfully healthful climate of the country they inhabit their shocking filthiness would breed contagion that would soon deci- mate their numbers. The Digger Indian of Cali fornia, who has the reputation of being the low est and dirtiest of the natives of the States, is clean when compared to "Tchuch' I pass from enlarging upon this revolting phase of their character as being unfit for publication.
 The "deer men, or interior natives, are the well to do, substantial residenters of the penn sula. They live rather nomadic life, their home being wherever food may be found most pent fully for the reindeer. About forty miles in the interior from Boring sea, beautiful lake, sides the richest deer man of the Tchukotsl1 He has five or six herds of deer-about $500 in all. took occasion to visit this old deer man ..one day. and saw very interesting sight It was just be. fore the ice break up in the lake, and the natives were about to start for some willows many miles away About five hundred deer were hitched up, one deer to a sled. Each man then took charge of about twenty sleds. A well broken deer was placed in the lead; the next deer would be tied by halterlike affair to the rear end of the first sled, and so on. When they all got strung out on the trail, going at flying gait, it made sight worth seeing.
 The rich old native referred to has a daughter who is the acknowledged belle of the peninsula and as 1 am admirer of the beautiful, 1 took advantage of the opportunity to pay my respects. As l entered the door of the igloO, I saw the young princess seated on the floor reindeer skin. ''Yet te?'' Chow you ? said she. I made my prOfOundest bow, and l resumed a standing posture, gave my head a resOunding knock a wooden brace of the igloo, at which the young beauty burst forth into hearty laugh When her disabilities had been appeased, she grabbed deer skin from the bed, and placing it at my feet, bade me sit down. But there is more in these deer skins than is apparent to the eye, assured her was not tired and would pre- fer to stand. She then removed big chew of tobacco from her rose bud mouth, stuck it be- hind dainty pink ear and began to ask me all kinds of questions She had heard of white men, but l was among the first she had seen, and was consequently an object of curiosity to her.
 The girl certainly was beautiful, Possessed of 1.-the, graceful figure straight and easy in car riage, with rose tinted cheeks and flashing black eyes, dressed in the finest of spotted deer skins, adorned with rings and buttons of brass, with beads of various cOlors wound around her neck and wrists and arranged in her masses of coal black hair, this wild maid of the Tchukotsk did present striking figure, and she seemed to be fully aware of it, too.
 Matrimonial matches among the deer men are not made in heaven, as the good people tell us they are in this country. With them it is simply business proposition When deer man be- comes the father of child, he looks around among the neghboring deer men to find one with an offspring of the opposite gender, and match is then arranged, to be consummated when the children become of age Thus the 'reindeer' people intermarry and the rank outsider the coast native-has no opportunity to get into the family of rich deer man.
 l.. FRANK SHAW.