Word: tlingit
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...doubled the faculty, added $7,000,000 worth of new buildings. More important, the university has really begun serving Alaska. It rolls out useful pamphlets, from "How to Cook Moosemeat" to "Hints for Wilderness Wives." Its four community colleges (Anchorage, Juneau, Ketchikan, Palmer) teach everything from aircraft maintenance to Tlingit Indian culture. To help exploit Alaska's rich resources, it rummages heaven and earth. The topflight Geophysical Institute has probably done more aurora borealis research than any other group in the world. The mining school, with its own mine under the campus, has taught 18,000 Alaskans...
...least five seniors have a chance to "get a firm toe-hold on the educational ladder; to work among the Tlingit Indians, and to enjoy pleasant social intellectual companionship with people of superior intellect," the University of South East Alaska announced yesterday...
...Roosevelt appointed him Territorial Governor. Alaska took the appointment with steady nerves. The Juneau Chamber of Commerce had the Governor in to lunch. He attended a gathering of Indians at Wrangell's Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, responded politely when one Chief Shakes made him a member of the Tlingit Tribe and renamed him Kitchnahshch (meaning unknown to Governor Gruening). He shipped in dozens of watercolors by WPA artists to brighten the buff walls of the big, old-fashioned governor's mansion, picked a hot desert scene with violet clouds to hang beside his lace-canopied, four-poster...