The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-08-23

of better foods, housing and higher financial income
along with training in resources management Durln
the six years that this branch has been functioninl
its program has included the expansion of Native
owned fish canneries Though community organiza
tons at Hydaburg Angoon, Kake Klawock and Met
lakata and the installation of quick freeze and col
storage plant at Hydaburg.
The present reindeer program, since 1914, has en-
couraged individual ownership of herds through loan
from the Government with repayment-in kind Thong
difficult and hazardous industry, due to problem
of herding it is a necessary one for the economi
welfare of some of the Eskimo groups for the futur
development of certain areas in Alaska.
other industries being developed for the northern
Eskmos are coal mining in the Barrow area, the utili
cation of Jade small sawmils and gardens
To help the Natives find constant market 10
their ivory and other hand made articles, cearin
house was developed at Juneau under sponsorshl
of the Native Resources branch of ANS
Sixty-six Native groups have organized under tn
Indian Reorganization Act since the provisions OF tn
Act were made applicable to Alaska. Twenty-one o
these groups been organized since 1914 when MI
Foster became General Superintendent.
Under the Credit Section of Native Resources
the number of individual and corporation loans whic
enable the Native people to develop their own enter
prior to 1914 to So oans totang s62854oO since tina
time The repayment record on these loans is gooo
The most recent addition to the Resources pro
,an, &c the research on fisheries products with tn
aim of developing industries in this field
1bouoh MANY of the Native schools have becom
part of the Territorial school SYSTEM there were
last year. SO Native day schools employing l44 teacn
ers and enrolling 1854 pupils 1858 were enrolled il
md he EdQeCUnlbe
ptal school-a total of 54O7 in all ANS schools
In all ANS schools emphasis is placed on com
munity development including leadership applied tt
all civic problems Teachers not only as class
room instructors in English, health, economics bu
in their communities they the chief representative
or contact officials for Federal and Territorial service
such as law and order, welfare health, industra
development, etc.
High school and vocational training opportun
ties for Alaska Natives have been more than doubled
oy development of the Edgecumbe School since ls4'
vet there is still large number of older Native chill
dren unable to continue high school work because 0
lack of local schools space in boarding schools.
In addition to academic courses leading to col
lege entrance for professions or to other vocational
training Edgecumbe provides post-grade courses
diesel engineering, navigation boat building arts ant
and during the three years the school ha
been in operation, 90 students have been graduated
from the regular high school courses
Wrangell Institute an elementary boarding scnooi
is always crowded to the limit of 220 children fo
which it has space and has long waiting list O.
,ther children in desperate need of home and schoo
| care
Educational testing programs. nutrltlonai wori
md training in practical home economics are add
tional phases of the ANS school program.
The Alaska Native Service provides for the trans
oortation of supplies and personnel from the State
and to and from its schools and hospitals with tn
North STAR new knot-type ship Of $500 tons, which
this year replaced the older 14oo-ton North Stal
The new ship is especially equipped for the need
If ANS nurse travels with the ship to assist tn
Natives in the remote villages the North Star visit
Another branch of the Alaska Native Service i
the construction division which has the responsibht.
of building and maintaining all government building
required by it's many educational and medical services
Assistance has also been given in the recent housin
projects at Barrow and Hoonah.
All of this is a part of the ANS endeavor to assis
the Native American people to become successful
participants in the American democracy, to help then
be healthy self-supporting citizens under the nev
industrial conditions, able to the language an
tools common to people who are now around then
While much has been attained toward the Natives
successful indignation into the changing society," Ger
tain sareas vet have need of assistance in their adap
tations to social economy very different from tina
to which they have, for many centuries, beer
accustomed. IN.
The Alaska Native Service maintains that it
its duty to help each Native group to successful
ad istment to the industrial age.