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Scattered over 1,254,000 sq. mi. of Arctic waste, Canada's 11,000 Eskimos for centuries have spoken a complicated language. The Eskimo can pack whole sentences into a guttural syllable or two, commands 10,000 to 15,000 words-a scholar's quota-just for everyday discourse. He gives some of his verbs hundreds of forms, one for each subtle shade of meaning.* But the Eskimo has never printed the words he speaks. Last week, from the Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources in Ottawa came the first serious effort to put the Eskimo...
...Hudson Bay. Before them. Anglican Bishop Donald Marsh solemnly intoned: "It apper-taineth to the office of a deacon, in the church where he shall be appointed to serve, to assist the priest in divine service ..." Armand Tagoona, 35, was being ordained the first Anglican deacon in the eastern Arctic...
Armand Tagoona's ordination is a landmark in one of the most successful Anglican missions in the world. There are only 23 Anglican clergymen in the Canadian Arctic, as compared with more than 90 Roman Catholics, but 82.5% of Canada's Eskimos are Anglicans...
...missionaries also found that the Eskimos easily identified themselves with Biblical situations. Says stocky. English-born Bishop "Donald the Arctic" Marsh, 55. whose diocese covers more than 2,750,000 square miles and who has spent 33 years there: "Living in a primitive society, the Eskimo had many of the same problems as the Biblical characters. To him, the moral background was perfectly understandable. A great deal of the conception of the Gospel was already there. Being a realist, he tried to put Christianity into practice, and he did it successfully...
...force of geography, Russian test explosions are in northern latitudes. Evidence was presented that fallout from Soviet polar shots is caught in the downward drafts of arctic air and delivered to earth quite rapidly (in about a year), while debris from equatorial explosions probably stays up longer. Largely as a result of Russian polar shots last year, twice as much strontium 90 fell on the U.S. as in any previous year...