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National Geographic : 1974 Oct
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In a land of splendid isolation, two boys wait at the inlet to a tidal pool to catch a fish dinner bare-handed. Ten-year-old Judy Zaochney (below) dre ams of the future. Recent U. S. payment for ancestral land rights may enable young Aleuts to stay on their stark but cherished island. Atkans in 1952. The old man spoke in a fashion that died out with his generation. He spoke of the 1830's, when the worst of the wanton slaughter had been stopped by a con servation policy-though only for a while. "When the Russian Company dominated Atka, it used to have 300 sea otters caught a year, it's told. It did not let it go beyond that, it's told. But when the Americans came out, one began to kill them without limit... until they began to become scarce. "At that time one began to wear what we now call clothes, it's told. Bird skins they did not put on so often anymore, it's told. How ever, much subsistence got lost for them. "From that time on, one hunted sea otter, going on until 1910, when the sea otter was closed. It was gone." National Geographic,October 1974
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