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 CHAPTER I KALITAN TENAS IT was bitterly cold. Kalitan Tenas felt it more than he had in the long winter, for then it was still and calm as night, and now the wind was blowing straight in from the sea, and the river was frozen tight. A month before, the ice had begun to break and he had thought the cold was over, and that the all too short Alaskan summer was at hand. Now it was the first of May, and just as he had begun to think of summer pleasures, lo! a storm had come which seemed to freeze the very marrow of his bones. However, our little Alaskan cousin was used to cold and trained to it, and would not dream of fussing over a little snow-storm. Kalitan started out to fish for his dinner, and though the snow came down heavily and he had to break through the ice to make a fishing-hole, and soon the ice was a wind-swept plain where even his own tracks were covered with a white pall, he fished steadily on. He never dreamed of stopping until he had fish enough for dinner, for, like most of his tribe, he was persevering and industrious.