Chapter I: Front Matter

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Our Little Alaskan Cousin

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LIST OF TITLES

BY MARY HAZELTON WADE

(unless otherwise indicated)

=Our Little African Cousin=
=Our Little Alaskan Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Arabian Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Armenian Cousin=
=Our Little Australian Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Brazilian Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Brown Cousin=
=Our Little Canadian Cousin=
By Elizabeth R. MacDonald
=Our Little Chinese Cousin=
By Isaac Taylor Headland
=Our Little Cuban Cousin=
=Our Little Dutch Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Egyptian Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little English Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Eskimo Cousin=
=Our Little French Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little German Cousin=
=Our Little Greek Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Hawaiian Cousin=
=Our Little Hindu Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Indian Cousin=
=Our Little Irish Cousin=
=Our Little Italian Cousin=
=Our Little Japanese Cousin=
=Our Little Jewish Cousin=
=Our Little Korean Cousin=
By H. Lee M. Pike
=Our Little Mexican Cousin=
By Edward C. Butler
=Our Little Norwegian Cousin=
=Our Little Panama Cousin=
By H. Lee M. Pike
=Our Little Philippine Cousin=
=Our Little Porto Rican Cousin=
=Our Little Russian Cousin=
=Our Little Scotch Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Siamese Cousin=
=Our Little Spanish Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Swedish Cousin=
By Claire M. Coburn
=Our Little Swiss Cousin=
=Our Little Turkish Cousin=

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Our Little Alaskan
Cousin

By
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

_Author of "Our Little Spanish Cousin," "With
a Pessimist in Spain," "God, the
King, My Brother," etc._

_Illustrated_

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
_PUBLISHERS_

_Copyright, 1907_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Third Impression, May, 1909

TO MY LITTLE SON
John Nixon de Roulet

Preface

AWAY up toward the frozen north lies the great peninsula, which the United States bought from the Russians, and thus became responsible for the native peoples from whom the Russians had taken the land.

There are many kinds of people there, from Indians to Esquimos, and they are under the American Government, yet they have no votes and are not called American citizens.

It is about this country and its people that this little story is written, and in the hope of interesting American girls and boys in these very strange people, their Little Alaskan Cousins.

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I. KALITAN TENAS 1
II. AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE 12
III. TO THE GLACIER 26
IV. TED MEETS MR. BRUIN 38
V. A MONSTER OF THE DEEP 48
VI. THE ISLAND HOME OF KALITAN 60
VII. TWILIGHT TALES AND TOTEMS 71
VIII. THE BERRY DANCE 82
IX. ON THE WAY TO NOME 93
X. IN THE GOLD COUNTRY 108
XI. AFTERNOON TEA IN AN EGLU 119
XII. THE SPLENDOUR OF SAGHALIE TYEE 129

List of Illustrations

PAGE
"KALITAN FISHED DILIGENTLY BUT CAUGHT
LITTLE" (_See page 3_) _Frontispiece_
"AWAY WENT ANOTHER STINGING LANCE" 57
"A GROUP OF PEOPLE AWAITING THE CANOES" 64
MOUNT SHISHALDIN 99
"'LET'S WATCH THOSE TWO MEN. THEY HAVE
EVIDENTLY STAKED A CLAIM TOGETHER'" 113
"TWO FUNNY LITTLE LAPP BABIES HE TOOK
TO RIDE ON A LARGE REINDEER" 134

Our Little Alaskan Cousin