Word: kuskokwim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hauls Indians and Eskimos, dog teams, pregnant women, dynamite and lumber, drops his handy craft onto a slippery strip in Umiat or on crags high in the mountain ranges. He brings groceries to Schoolteacher Charlie Richmond (home town: Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), who lives in Sleetmute (pop. 120) on the Kuskokwim River, where English-speaking Eskimos still attend Sleetmute's Russian Orthodox Church. Pilots transport Fairbanks Attorney Ed Merdes, 32, head of the Alaskan Junior Chamber of Commerce, who periodically visits club chapters in such places as Metlakahtla, south of Ketchikan. And they see, day after day, the strengthened heart...