Joys for the Eskimos
Since the numerous discoveries of oil in Oklahoma the poor Indian has ceased to deserve any sympathy on a» count of his financial circumstances. Nor need people’s sympathies be stirred any longer by painful thoughts of the hard lot of the Eskimo, states a -writer in the Manchester Guardian. Numbers of families in Bank's Land have received as much as £5,000 for the fox furs they trapped last winter; some have received £7OOO and £BOOO. Several of them of late have been chartering private aeroplanes down to Edmonton, from Arctic Canada, at £75 a trip, in order to take their furs direct to a good market in placo of the former “four dollars and a bottle of rye” buyer. During the past summer 20 aeroplane taxis were stationed at Herchel Island for the use of chance fares. Most Eskimo families now have a wireless set.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5618, 6 April 1931, Page 10
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149Joys for the Eskimos Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5618, 6 April 1931, Page 10
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