Word: prekaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PREKASKA'S WIFE-Helen Wheaton-Dodd, Mead...
...Nothing I write," says Author Wheaton in this light, gay record of her year-long (1935) honeymoon in the bleak Aleutians, "can possibly . . . show [me] to be a woman of strength and initiative." As wife of the local prekaska (storekeeper), and the only white woman on Atka, Helen regarded her Aleut neighbors with amazement streaked with alarm. The black haired, giggling, almond-eyed Aleuts, smelling strongly and permanently of fish, regarded Helen in turn with open admiration...
Discouraged with laundry, Helen advertised for help. Three women promptly appeared. After a long day, Helen asked what she owed. "No moneys at all," they answered happily. "Is much fun come wash in house of Prekaska's wife. . . . We like tell other Aleut womens about your house...
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