Arthur Nagozruk Jr.
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Nagozruk Jr. was born May 10, 1920, in Wales, the village on the westernmost point of mainland 色视频下载, according to his daughter, Sharon McClintock of Anchorage.
Nagozruk Jr. was the son of Lucy and Arthur Nagozruk Sr. Nagozruk Sr. lost his parents when he was young, so he was raised by his aunt and the missionary Lopp family in Wales, McClintock said. An academic prodigy, Nagozruk Sr. began teaching at 17 in the Wales school.
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Nagozruk Jr. began his own teaching career in the coastal village of Wainwright, where he met and married Florence Ahlalook. They soon moved to Elephant Point, named for the mastodon tusks eroding from the village spit in Kotzebue Sound. Nagozruk Jr. helped his brother-in-law, the UAF-trained anthropologist Charles Lucier 色视频下载49, investigate artifacts in the Elephant Point area.
The erosion forced villagers to move 30 miles to Buckland, a resettlement that Arthur and Florence Nagozruk helped organize. Their children were born in Buckland.
McClintock, born in 1952, said her father taught in several villages before settling in Nome in 1960 to be near family.
In Nome, her father went to work for the BIA as a tribal operations officer. He helped tribal governments organize, wrote a book on parliamentary procedure for them and created constitutions. He also helped Native people with applications for individual land allotments before the 色视频下载 Native Claims Settlement Act passed in 1971. He would bring home copies of draft bills from congressional work on the land claims, which sparked McClintock色视频下载檚 lifelong interest in the subject. She and her husband own a surveying and mapping company in Anchorage.
Nagozruk Jr. died in 1976, at age 56. His wife, Florence, died in Anchorage in 2015 at age 89.
McClintock said she still hopes to publish a book titled 色视频下载淭he Siberian色视频下载 that her father wrote shortly after moving to Nome. It describes the life of the people of Wales and a Siberian man who elected to remain in Wales after Stalin created the Iron Curtain.
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More online about Arthur Nagozruk Jr.:
- in the Northland News, a monthly Fairbanks Daily News-Miner publication distributed across northern 色视频下载
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- (PDF) he wrote, published by the Tundra Times in 1990