Alaskan History
Top: Main school building at Eklutna. [Photo by Walter W. Hodge, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Walter W. Hodge Papers, ca. 1925-1948. UAF-2003-63-61] Right: Cover of Thompson’s manuscript, available to read online. [Alaska State Library, ASL-MS4-08-004]
Alaska Villages, Eskimo, Indian, Aleut, 1937 From Students at Eklutna Vocational School during 1937 At the Alaska State Library online archive is a photograph of the cover of a manuscript with descriptions of 58 Alaskan villages by various students attending the Eklutna Vocational School. Available to read online, it was assembled in the Fall of 1937 by Paul E. Thompson, who went to Ektutna Vocational School as a teacher and spent summers at the Knik Arm fish camp for the school. The villages described by the students include Afognak, Alitak, Anvic, Attu, Barrow, Beaver, Bethel, Cantwell, Chignik, Circle, Diomede, Eagle, Egegik, Elim, Flat, Fortuna Ledge (Marshall), Fort Yukon, Galena, Haycock, Karluk, Kenai, King Cove, Kivalina, Kokrines, Kotzebue, Koyuk, Koyukuk, Long Beach, Manley Hot Springs, Metlakatla, Nash Harbor, Neelik, Noatac, Nome, Noorvik, Nulato, Nunapitchuk, Perryville, Pilot Point, Pilot Station, Point Hope, Point Lay, Rampart, Ruby, Selawik, Shishmaref, Snag Point, Stevens Village, St. Mark's Mission, Tanana, Tatitlek, Teller, Unalakleet, Unalaska, Wainright, White Mountain, Wiseman, and Yakutat. Paul E. Thompson went to Cordova in 1931 as a warden for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and returned to Cordova each year as a seasonal fish warden through 1937, when he went to
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