AN ESKIMO POLICEMAN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1929, Page 5

AN ESKIMO POLICEMAN.

MEMBER OF FAMOUS. FORCE. ROMANCE OF APPOINTMENT. At Bernard Harbour, a lonely mounted police post oil Coronation Lull, in the Western Arctic, lives Ikalulcpitk, with his wife Khattia. His mention in the annual report of the Mounted Police Force, of lisiTOig suffered temporary blindness' while on a 7 70-mi V patrol to Cambridge Cult, recaills the extraordinary circumstances imidieir which. Ikalupialc joined The world’s most famous ponce force. Seven years ago two Eskimos, tkalupiak and Ha.vqurgach, were hunting partner?, sharing the same igloo and the same wife, Khattia. According to lkalukpiak, he became in danger of his life through his partner’s jealousy of Khattia, The two went out one day to retrieve deer meat from a cache, lkalukpiak returned alone. Arrested, he confessed to shooting his paatiiei. An Alberta judge journeyed to Her.schel Is’and to try him. Hudson Bav men and river men were the juryThe population for miles around was ordered by the police to be present at the tria'l. The jury found the Eskimo guilty, and he was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. * lkalukpiak, with a knowledge of English and useful handicrafts, returned to his tribe at Coronation Cult, where he was appointed special ofticei of the police, pith duties of mad runner guide and interpreter as vverj. "uardian of the white man shaw ; fie ha.y been there ever ismee and is .J " ported to be a useful officer. Phe laiw-n----iu.l Khattia still rules .his igloo, but there is no likelihood of a tliiiA ( OCC - pant. Her lord and master has gone English.”