tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526181754324907357.post8422259622959251560..comments2024-02-03T13:40:14.141-08:00Comments on The Mountain Echo: Some verification for my Yukon theoriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526181754324907357.post-29683134441864018502010-11-23T05:43:47.036-08:002010-11-23T05:43:47.036-08:00Re: your theory of the natives of Alaska: While st...Re: your theory of the natives of Alaska: While stationed in Taiwan, we drove down island one weekend to a place called Sun Moon Lake. There is a tribe of aboriginal people who live there, who look a LOT like our American Indians. They are taller, and have less sharp features than the Taiwanese and Chinese. Another thing I found odd was their use of totem poles, just like the natives of Alaska and the Northwest. Even their mode of dress was similar.<br /><br />Thanks, Wayne. It's little additions like your story that add up to the bigger picture. Jack wasn't just traveling into a new wilderness, that he could have contended with, but he was also meeting new cultures in a land of little law or at least different laws - the French trappers, the Russians who had owned and controlled the vast majority of the lower Yukon for years, the Han- type Indians of Asian blood, the Athabascan Indians of Amerindian blood similar to the Navajo and Apache, and finally the Eskimo who maintained a considerably different lifestyle than either the Han or Amerindians. On top of all that, he had to deal with Canadian law especially the Mounties who were after the government share of the gold and liquor sales.<br /><br />He might have been a loner for a dozen or so years before he got there, but he found himself dealing with lots of different cultures, languages, and laws of the land, once he arrived.<br /><br />To be singled out from all these people as the Father of Alaska, Father of the Yukon and even Injun Papa was a pretty significant honor.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06337249676878280743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526181754324907357.post-42184792079782340282010-11-22T20:27:02.783-08:002010-11-22T20:27:02.783-08:00Jim, what you have said makes total sense to me; a...Jim, what you have said makes total sense to me; although I have never read or heard in any of my history (at least to my memory) anything about the Vikings sailing to Alaska. I also agree with your surmise about Klondike, which make sense also. Thank you.DavidMcC1944https://www.blogger.com/profile/13926067428926974059noreply@blogger.com