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Show ALASKA INDIANS ARE RAPIDLY DfCRU THEY ARE THE EASY PREY OF CIVILIZATION. Most of the Villages Are Unprotected From the Attacks of Criminal White Men. Washington. Feb. 15. That the death rate among the native Indians of Alaska is very large and the. population popula-tion estimated at 20,000 is rapidly decreasing de-creasing by reason of contact with civilization, civ-ilization, is the claim made before the. house committee on territories in connection con-nection with bill which proposes to gie police powers to teachers in Alaska. Alas-ka. In a letter to the committee, the secretary of the interior states that fully three-fourths of the native villages vil-lages are unprotected from the criminal crim-inal or otherwise unlawful acts of white men. The judicious enforcement of a sanitary code, compulsory attendance attend-ance at school and tho re-establish-ment of the influence of the teachers on the morals of the natives by giving them legal authority to control in major ma-jor offenses, are the most Important objects of the bill. |