Show NUSHAGAK WOMEN TREATED LIKE BEASTS 1 By JACK JUNGMEYER By The r e T elf trams tram's S New Nev Service NUSHAGAK Alaska Dec 8 8 The S.-The The native women here cobble with their teeth It Is the height of ot hospitality for tor forthe forthe the barabara hostess to chew a visitors visitor's visitors visitor's visitors visitor's vis vis- mukluks into shape and pliability while he rests his weary feet The character of ot this attention can only be appreciated by those who know ow how these mukluks are tanned It cant can't be written And the rest of the west Alaska native womans woman's life Is on a par with this l lowly service to strangers Women who believe the estate of their sex has been but little bettered since the stone age should visit their heavy featured sisters here who still dwell in that ago age The life of ot the average dog is elevated ele ele- elevated in comparison Even the fathers husbands and brothers prefer club life to home association as with their women very Every village has its ka ka where the men work eat and sleep sleep sleep- the Ute married men as well as bachelors and older boys It is the smoking I room council chamber court theatre and club The woman is the tho beast of ot burden as well as the chief breadwinner She gathers the berries catches and prepares prepares pre pre- pares th the fish spanks the children and makes the clothes and footgear for the family Then when she thinks she has earned it the woman goes to tp the cache where last years year's fish have been ripened and regales herself 1 I Ithe on what the Ule natives here regard as the choicest but from a asel sel self respecting dog would flee in borror horror That is the pinnacle of ot her lows Her lIer routine of conduct and service falls to levels so repulsively low that they cannot even be bo hinted at here If you ever doubt that the world do move forward Just come north to these flat tundra dra lands and spend a day as the barabara guest of a folk still wallowing in the dirt age |