. Alaska and the Klondike . treets of the mining towns like Nome fullof idle men, and seeing that these men apparently livewithout work, seem to think they can and ought to doso, too. For these people the Government of the United Stateshas done practically nothing, while legislation conceivedin the interest of white men has pretty nearly destroyedtheir most productive source of revenue. The game lawshave operated disastrously to their declining trade in fursby making it unlawful to kill some of the most importantfur-bearing animals when their pelts are at their best, andprohibiting the white t
. Alaska and the Klondike . treets of the mining towns like Nome fullof idle men, and seeing that these men apparently livewithout work, seem to think they can and ought to doso, too. For these people the Government of the United Stateshas done practically nothing, while legislation conceivedin the interest of white men has pretty nearly destroyedtheir most productive source of revenue. The game lawshave operated disastrously to their declining trade in fursby making it unlawful to kill some of the most importantfur-bearing animals when their pelts are at their best, andprohibiting the white traders to deal in them or send themto market. It is charged also that these game laws aretaken advantage of by some unscrupulous dealers to beatdown the prices paid the Indians for such as are bought,on the ground that the traffic is dangerous and that there-fore the dealer cannot afford to take the risk unless hegets his goods at very low figures. From both standpointsthe operation of the law bears hardest upon the CQ 284 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE This is a sample of legislation enacted at Washingtonby a body of men few of whom have ever taken the painsto visit the country personally and see enough of it andits needs to make laws intelligently for its government. There are four different families or groups of thenatives of Alaska. Ethnologically they are an interestingstudy, but there is no room here to consider them fromthat standpoint. The native of northern and northwesternAlaska is an Eskimo, and often exhibits strong resem-blances to some of the people of Asia, particularly theJaps. An illustration of a dance in the kazhim or villagecouncil-house, on St. Michael Island, shows the prom-inence of the Japanese features. The inhabitants of theAleutian Islands are another group, and those of the farinterior are known by the various names of Innuits orTinnehs or Athabaskans. On the south coast and on theislands of the archipelago are a number of small groupsknown under t
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