Word: nunamiut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desolate Brooks Range north of the Arctic Circle has a post office, a school and an airplane landing strip. But for all its modern trimmings, Anaktuvuk is barely out of the Stone Age. Its 15 families (averaging five children and 12 dogs each) are remnants of the nomadic Nunamiuts. Their lives are devoted to hunting the Arctic caribou, which supplies 90% of their food as well as most of their clothing. Merely to stay alive, one Nunamiut family must kill 90 caribou a year...
...Nunamiut Eskimos have shown no symptoms of the serious illnesses that can come from too much radiation, but no scientist can be confident that such symptoms will not appear. In the future, though, if the U.S. and Russia stick to their recently signed agreement to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, the contaminated lichens of northern Alaska will gradually lose their dangerous radioactivity. The body burdens of the caribou will fall little by little. Eventually the people of Anaktuvuk Pass will be no more radioactive than any other Americans...
...Yale abounds with enterprising young scholars. Not untypical is Senior Nicholas J. Gubser, 23, founder of the Anthropology Club, who recently spent a 15-month leave living with an Eskimo family in Arctic Alaska. Last week he finished a paper on "the intellectual ecology of the Nunamiut Eskimos." Dean of Admissions Arthur Howe Jr. does not think such scholarship comes at a cost to other interests, and calms blue Old Blues with word that "the present Yale football team would beat any Yale team of any previous generation...
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