From ae527b37267b8a0162382ca61a4539d69e4f73d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mary Kollander <124931791+mgkollander@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 17:24:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Added all points --- data/markerData.geojson | 1908 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- src/constants.js | 2 +- src/marker.js | 6 +- 3 files changed, 1791 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-) diff --git a/data/markerData.geojson b/data/markerData.geojson index f427f67..b161c8d 100644 --- a/data/markerData.geojson +++ b/data/markerData.geojson @@ -1,326 +1,1827 @@ { "type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [ + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m1", + "description": "The Unangax̂ people are enslaved and colonized by Russian fur hunting companies.

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De Laguna (1972:277) states the early Spanish expeditions introduced smallpox in 1775, while Khlebnikov (1976:29) estimates smallpox arrived in 1770.", + "startDate": 1770, + "endDate": 1779, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-132.394,56.734] + } + }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "name": "m3", - "description": "Russians close all ports in Kamchatka to control a smallpox epidemic. (Black 1980:96)
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Portlock (1789:270-273) observes that \"no person younger than 14 years bore the marks\".", + "startDate": 1775, + "endDate": 1775, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-135.32793,57.05119] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m5", + "description": "Russians come into contact with Dena'ina people of the lower Kenai Peninsula and Lake Iliamna areas.₁

In 1796, Father Iuvenalii/Juvenal, a Russian Orthodox priest attempts to convert the Dena'ina of the Iliamna area and is killed.₂

The Dena'ina are not enslaved, although the Russians establish a few trade areas in the Cook Inlet and Kenai Peninsula areas. Skirmises and hostilities with the Dena'ina prevent the Russians from maintaining a stronghold in the lower Kenai Peninsula.
Hieromonk Iuvenalii/Juvenal baptized people of Kodiak, as well as Nuchek and Kenai. In 1796, he came to Lake Iliamna. He was taking children from this region to be educated in Kodiak, and the Iliamna people killed him. (Veniaminov, 1984:235)", + "startDate": 1780, + "endDate": 1790, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-153.152,60.035] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m6", + "description": "Russians invade Kodiak Island. The Sugpiaq/Alutiiq resist, but within a short period of time experience the brunt of Russian colonization.₁

The Awa'uq or ‘Refuge Rock’, on the shore of Sitkalidak Island, part of Kodiak Island archipelago is where hundreds of Alutiiq villagers were held under siege and massacred by Grigorii Shelikhov and his men in August, 1784. (Black 1992, 2004)", + "startDate": 1784, + "endDate": 1784, + "dataRef": "https://alutiiqmuseum.org/collection/index.php/Detail/word/419", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-153.08, 57.11] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m7", + "description": "Upper Inlet Dena'ina oral history indicates a \"strange sickness\" struck their villages from Kenai to Point Possession in which people went to sleep and never woke up. (Fall, 1981:116)", + "startDate": 1780, + "endDate": 1789, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-150.7739,60.7399] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m8", + "description": "Unangax̂ and Alutiiq people in Unalaska and Sitkanak Island experience a respiratory epidemic. (Merk, 1980:177)

\"We were informed that the greater part of the inhabitants of Sithanak had been victims to illness shortly after we left the island in 1790\" (Sauer, 1802:272).₁

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\"In June 1799 Baranov stopped at Yakutat, where he found the people in the throes of a severe outbreak of disease...A similar epidemic, he had learned, was raging around Kenai, where there had also been many deaths (Khlebnikov, 1973:26). Kodiak and its surrounding islands were affected that year as well (Lltke, 1987:72).\" (Pierce, 1996:204)", + "startDate": 1799, + "endDate": 1799, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-139.728,59.550] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m13", + "description": "A Russian ship carries a contagious fever to Atka causing death and food shortages.

\"...in the previous year the galiot Aleksandr Nevskii was dispatched; enroute it lost 15 men with some kind of contagious fever which had broken out while they were still in Okhotsk. It wintered on the island of Atkha where it transmitted the disease to the inhabitants, who were decimated by it.\" (Davydov, 1977:105)", + "startDate": 1802, + "endDate": 1802, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-174.21,52.19] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m14", + "description": "An American ship O'Caine brings a respiratory contagion to Kodiak which kills many of the local shamans.₁ The ship had a group of Sugpiaq captive hunters who had been sea otter hunting in California. The O'Caine was returning the hunters to the Russian American Company post on Kodiak.

\"I could discover nothing in detail about their shamanism because many of the older shamans died during the epidemic which raged on Kadiak in 1804 and others had gone into hiding. During my stay at Igatsk village one shaman pretended that he had lost his tongue as the result of fear brought on by a terrible dream.\" (Ianovskii in Pierce, 1978:136) \"It was impossible for me to find out about shamanism in detail, as many of the old shamans had died during the epidemic that visited Kadiak in June 1804, and others concealed from me. During my stay at Igatsk settlement, one shaman feigned that he lost his speech from fright of his dreams.\" (Gray, 1925:100)
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\"...a very large number of men and young women died. But it was observed that this disease hardly affected the old women at all.\" (Veniaminov, 1984:257)

An American ship wrecks on Sanak Island and introduces a \"bloody flux\". (Ibid.) (Petroff 1884:151)₁ This affects Kodiak as well. (Gibson, 1976:47)

\"In 1808, the ship Sv. Petr i Sv. Pavel, under skipper Pyshenkov, called at Atka. Excited by the news of the vessel's arrival, people assembled from far and wide in Korovin Bay, including Rat Islanders who were brought to Atka by Lazarev from Amchitka about 1790-1800 in order to \"rest\" Amchitka sea otter grounds. The ship brought to Atka the epidemic which caused the large death toll at Unalaska the previous year. So many died that it was impossible to bury the dead properly\". (Black,1980:100)", + "startDate": 1807, + "endDate": 1808, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-163.968,54.481] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m19", + "description": "Sitka residents experience a respiratory illness carried by the Finlandia; the disease spreads to Kodiak and surrounding islands that fall. The local Kodiak Russian Orthodox Priest, Father Herman, ministers to the sick and dying and later builds an orphanage for all the young children whose parents had died.

General Manager Ianovskii wrote: \"During my stay on the island of Kadiak there was brought there a contagious fatal epidemic disease, or plague. …the sickness quickly spread throughout the whole settlement and soon crossed to all the nearby islands The energetic elder Father German ceaselessly, tirelessly and at great personal risk visited the sick not sparing himself in his role as priest …\" (Ionovskii in Pierce, 1978:83-84). Ionovskii and his family even became ill and stated so many died they could not be buried (Gray, 1925:58). He visited one of the large houses, which had nearly 100 people - most sick and dying.

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\"It carried off more than 30 persons, for the most part young and healthy men. Children, old men and, in general, all women, it bypassed. The greatest mortality was on Unga.\" (Veniaminov, 1984:258)", + "startDate": 1830, + "endDate": 1831, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-160.4912,55.2090] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m25", + "description": "New Archangel/Sitka faces typhoid, meningitis, diphtheria, and whooping cough that affect the children of the settlement. (Fortuine, 1992:205)", + "startDate": 1830, + "endDate": 1839, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-135.3265,57.0523] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m26", + "description": "Nushagak river region has an unknown illness that strikes the area.

\"The first reported epidemic in the Nushagak River region occurred sometime prior to 1832 when it was mentioned in a report sent by F.P. Wrangell to the main office of the Russian-American Company in St. Petersburg. There was no mention of the number of dead, but it was said to have been ‘considerable’\"(Van Stone, 1967:99).", + "startDate": 1832, + "endDate": 1832, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-158.6251,58.8059] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m27", + "description": "The Great Smallpox epidemic arrives and spreads from British Columbia. It strikes the Haida and Tlingit, and continues to travel west and north to all Russian and coastal communities with tremendous numbers of casualties recorded. The Tlingit settlements in Yakutat and Dry Bay are completely decimated. Estimates indicate that 4,000 out of a population of 10,000 Tlingit die. (De Laguna, 1972:177, 277-279)

According to Petroff (1881:83), fifty percent of the overall Alaska Native population succumbed to the epidemic. 100 of the 161 Aleut captive hunters and creoles stationed in Sitka died.", + "startDate": 1835, + "endDate": 1835, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-131.810,56.874] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m28", + "description": "Smallpox hits the Dena'ina people of the Cook Inlet and Iliamna area, causing fifty percent of the population to die. According to Fedeorova's research, the epidemic sweeps through the Cook Inlet region in 1838 and the impact is cataclysmic. (Fall, 1981:118)", + "startDate": 1836, + "endDate": 1838, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-152.057,60.187] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m29", + "description": "Smallpox arrives in Kodiak. The Russian American Company's attempts to vaccinate are sporadic and too late, and tragically results in 265 deaths by October. By spring, 736 die - one-third of the Kodiak population. (Sarafian, 1977:48)

\"...it was a smallpox outbreak and many Aleuts [Alutiiq] died so that only a few children were left in some settlements. When this came to the notice of the colonial authorities, who acted in collaboration with the archpriest Petr Litvintsev (he was at that time priest on Kadiak), out of 20 villages some 7 were created….\" (Gedeon in Pierce, 1978:106)", + "startDate": 1837, + "endDate": 1837, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-152.4064,57.7957] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m30", + "description": "Explorer Thomas Simpson reaches Utqiaġvik (Barrow) and witnesses an immense graveyard that has many \"fresh\" bodies, perhaps a result of the smallpox epidemic. (Simpson, 1843:153-154)", + "startDate": 1837, + "endDate": 1837, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-156.7847,71.2824] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m31", + "description": "Smallpox decimates the Nushagak, Lower Yukon, and Kuskokwim river regions. Fatalities among the Yup'ik and Dene are fifty percent or greater. Nulato is devastated (Zagoskin, 1967:147,188,193).₁ Reportedly two-thirds of the Deg X'inag community die in the epidemic. (Van Stone, 1979:60)

Zagoskin states that Malakov was assigned to Nulato during the smallpox epidemic. \"He reached Nulato on March 28th, 1839. There he found the smallpox epidemic at its height In his presence the old man Unillu buried two wives and three sons, and as he felt his own end approaching put fire to the village Kazhim and two houses, in the third he was overcome by the smoke...In the spring the starving dogs ate the bodies of their dead masters\" (Zagoskin 1967:147)", + "startDate": 1838, + "endDate": 1839, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-159.531,60.035] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m32", + "description": "Lower Kuskokwim Yup'ik destroy the Russian post at Ikogkmiut in spring of 1839 as a result of the smallpox epidemic, which they know was brought by the Russians. (Van Stone, 1959:39; Arndt, 1996:45-46)", + "startDate": 1838, + "endDate": 1839, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-162.0261,60.5830] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m33", + "description": "Many die of smallpox in Norton Sound. (Zagoskin, 1967:100)", + "startDate": 1838, + "endDate": 1839, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-162.676,63.993] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m34", + "description": "Due to the population losses during the smallpox epidemic and to maintain greater control over the population (Tikhmenev, 1978:200), the Russian American Company forces the surviving Kodiak Sugpiaq, living in 65 villages, to move to seven sites. They also relocate 9 of the villages in the Unalaska district.

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\"They brought a sick woman to be cared for by the manager of the post and said that people were dying along the Yunnaka [Koyukuk] River…The same report was confirmed by the shaman from Khulikata who was living with us\" (Zagoskin, 1967:145-146).", + "startDate": 1842, + "endDate": 1842, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-158.1145,64.7238] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m37", + "description": "Some type of respiratory epidemic hits Sitka, resulting in an extremely high mortality rate. (Fortuine, 1992:202)", + "startDate": 1843, + "endDate": 1843, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-135.3276,57.0521] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m38", + "description": "Southeastern Alaska has an epidemic of mumps.

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Portlock (1789:270-273) observes that \"no person younger than 14 years bore the marks\".
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The Awa'uq or ‘Refuge Rock’, on the shore of Sitkalidak Island, part of Kodiak Island archipelago is where hundreds of Alutiiq villagers were held under siege and massacred by Grigorii Shelikhov and his men in August, 1784. (Black 1992, 2004)", - "startDate": 1784, - "endDate": 1784, - "dataRef": "https://alutiiqmuseum.org/collection/index.php/Detail/word/419", + "name": "m106", + "description": "The Tlingit villages of Hoonah and Sitka report an outbreak of influenza or the grippe. (Emmons and De Laguna, 1991:19)", + "startDate": 1892, + "endDate": 1892, + "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-153.08, 57.11] + "coordinates": [-135.4408,58.1123] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m13", - "description": "A Russian ship carries a contagious fever to Atka causing death and food shortages.

\"...in the previous year the galiot Aleksandr Nevskii was dispatched; enroute it lost 15 men with some kind of contagious fever which had broken out while they were still in Okhotsk. It wintered on the island of Atkha where it transmitted the disease to the inhabitants, who were decimated by it.\" (Davydov, 1977:105)", - "startDate": 1802, - "endDate": 1802, + "name": "m108", + "description": "The Inupiaq village of Point Hope has an epidemic of bronchial pneumonia, brought by a visiting whaling ship. This causes one-sixth of the entire village to die. The people become too sick to take care of the dead, and corpses are left unburied. (Fortuine, 1989:211)", + "startDate": 1894, + "endDate": 1894, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-174.20, 52.20] + "coordinates": [-166.8334,68.3396] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m14", - "description": "An American ship O'Caine brings a respiratory contagion to Kodiak which kills many of the local shamans.₁ The ship had a group of Sugpiaq captive hunters who had been sea otter hunting in California. The O'Caine was returning the hunters to the Russian American Company post on Kodiak.

\"I could discover nothing in detail about their shamanism because many of the older shamans died during the epidemic which raged on Kadiak in 1804 and others had gone into hiding. During my stay at Igatsk village one shaman pretended that he had lost his tongue as the result of fear brought on by a terrible dream.\" (Ianovskii in Pierce, 1978:136) \"It was impossible for me to find out about shamanism in detail, as many of the old shamans had died during the epidemic that visited Kadiak in June 1804, and others concealed from me. During my stay at Igatsk settlement, one shaman feigned that he lost his speech from fright of his dreams.\" (Gray, 1925:100)
", - "startDate": 1804, - "endDate": 1804, + "name": "m109", + "description": "Bethel has a whooping cough or pertussis outbreak that claims dozens of children. (Fortuine, 1989:212)", + "startDate": 1895, + "endDate": 1895, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-152.39, 57.79] + "coordinates": [-161.7511,60.7893] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m20", - "description": "A typhoid epidemic occurs in the Yakutat area. (De Laguna, 1972:277)
", - "startDate": 1819, - "endDate": 1819, + "name": "m110", + "description": "Bethel has an influenza epidemic that causes about 50 deaths.

\"That same month the disease appeared at Tununak, probably brought by the crew of the Bear, which had returned north to relieve the stranded whalers at Barrow…some of the guides for the overland expedition were sick with the disease and apparently carried the epidemic through the whole lower Yukon.\" (Fortuine, 1989:212)", + "startDate": 1897, + "endDate": 1897, "dataRef": "", - "imageUrl": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1690982951685-2b1d4cd62e02?q=80&w=1471&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D" + "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-139.66, 59.54] + "coordinates": [-161.7588,60.7937] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m16", - "description": "An epidemic occurs on Kodiak. (Gibson, 1976:47)", - "startDate": 1806, - "endDate": 1806, + "name": "m111", + "description": "The gold rush era brings in thousands of outsiders. The Inupiaq in the Seward Peninsula area (Nome) in 1899 attracts over 30,000 miners in just one season. Fairbanks and Juneau are established and named due to the gold mines in these regions. The Lower Kenai also has a gold rush.

The gold seekers carry new diseases and deplete the food sources of the local indigenous inhabitants. Diseases such as typhoid result from the severe overcrowding. (Fortuine, 1989:177-178)", + "startDate": 1890, + "endDate": 1899, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-153.33, 57.50] + "coordinates": [-165.4085,64.4991] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m24", - "description": "The Island of Unga reports a respiratory illness that spreads to the Alaska Peninsula; the same illness reportedly strikes Atka, Rat and Amlia Island. According to Petroff (1884:151), the epidemic begins in Unga and travels to the Alaska Peninsula in the fall, and continues through the spring. Thirty die, mostly youths and healthy men; children, the elderly, and women unaffected.

\"It carried off more than 30 persons, for the most part young and healthy men. Children, old men and, in general, all women, it bypassed. The greatest mortality was on Unga.\" (Veniaminov, 1984:258)", - "startDate": 1830, - "endDate": 1831, + "name": "m112", + "description": "King Island (Inupiaq) reports that influenza has killed eleven people, which was brought by an American ship. (Fortuine, 1992:212)", + "startDate": 1897, + "endDate": 1897, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-160.70, 55.26] + "coordinates": [-168.0533,64.9602] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m26", - "description": "Nushagak river region has an unknown illness that strikes the area.

\"The first reported epidemic in the Nushagak River region occurred sometime prior to 1832 when it was mentioned in a report sent by F.P. Wrangell to the main office of the Russian-American Company in St. Petersburg. There was no mention of the number of dead, but it was said to have been ‘considerable’\"(Van Stone, 1967:99).", - "startDate": 1832, - "endDate": 1832, + "name": "m113", + "description": "Gwich'in people experience an outbreak of scarlet fever brought by gold seekers. (Fortuine, 1992:214)", + "startDate": 1897, + "endDate": 1897, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-158.44, 58.91] + "coordinates": [-143.15,66.44] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m30", - "description": "Explorer Thomas Simpson reaches Utqiaġvik (Barrow) and witnesses an immense graveyard that has many \"fresh\" bodies, perhaps a result of the smallpox epidemic. (Simpson, 1843:153-154)", - "startDate": 1837, - "endDate": 1837, + "name": "m114", + "description": "The gold rush in Dyea and Skagway bring typhoid and other illnesses due to thousands of gold seekers. (Fortuine, 1989:172-773)", + "startDate": 1897, + "endDate": 1898, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-156.75, 71.28] + "coordinates": [-135.36,59.50] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m33", - "description": "Many die of smallpox in Norton Sound. (Zagoskin, 1967:100)", - "startDate": 1838, - "endDate": 1839, + "name": "m115", + "description": "St. Lawrence Island experiences an influenza and/or pneumonia outbreak. (Fortuine, 1992:212)", + "startDate": 1898, + "endDate": 1898, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-161.41, 64.48] + "coordinates": [-170.3509,63.4416] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m35", - "description": "Streptococcal sore throat or diphtheria affects children in New Archangel/Sitka, and is followed by a series of epidemics that last to 1844. (Fortuine, 1989:206)", - "startDate": 1841, - "endDate": 1841, + "name": "m116", + "description": "Deg X'inag people experience a measles and mumps epidemic; the survivors abandon their village of Bonasila. (De Laguna 2000:283)", + "startDate": 1898, + "endDate": 1898, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-134.92, 56.91] + "coordinates": [-157.165,62.232] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m36", - "description": "Zagoskin reports a contagion in the Koyukon village of Nulato.

\"They brought a sick woman to be cared for by the manager of the post and said that people were dying along the Yunnaka [Koyukuk] River…The same report was confirmed by the shaman from Khulikata who was living with us\" (Zagoskin, 1967:145-146).", - "startDate": 1842, - "endDate": 1842, + "name": "m117", + "description": "The village of Karluk on Kodiak Island has an unidentified epidemic that kills over 36 individuals. In the spring, twenty-four individuals die at Kodiak from an illness similar to cholera. (Fortuine, 1992:208)", + "startDate": 1898, + "endDate": 1898, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-158.20, 64.71] + "coordinates": [-154.458,57.571] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m51", - "description": "An influenze-like illness is reported at Port Clarence near present-day Nome.", - "startDate": 1850, - "endDate": 1850, + "name": "m118", + "description": "Utqiaġvik (Barrow) has an outbreak of influenza and bronchitis. (Fortuine, 1992:212)", + "startDate": 1898, + "endDate": 1899, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-166.74, 65.09] + "coordinates": [-156.7953,71.2917] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m58", - "description": "The Alaska Peninsula region including Naknek has an epidemic of some type of respiratory illness which becomes a recurring problem for the next decade, resulting in over 300 deaths.

\"The villages of the Lake Naknek region of the Alaska Peninsula suffered severe epidemics of cough and stabbing pains…causing 163 and 116 deaths respectively. Smaller epidemics occurred in 1859 and 1860.\" (Fortuine, 1992:203)", - "startDate": 1853, - "endDate": 1860, + "name": "m119", + "description": "Lower Yukon Deg X'itan villages experience multiple epidemics.

\"There were two minor epidemics of measles and one of mumps during the winter of 1898-1899 and then severe epidemics of measles, whooping cough, and particularly influenza in 1900-1901. At Anvik, where 20 persons died in 1900, the mortality was less than in other villages, although 27 more died in the summer of 1901. There were no deaths in the school, but all the children were ill. In August, 1900 the steamer Nunivak stopped at Grayling where 65 Indians were camped, most of them were suffering either from measles or influenza, or both…These epidemics of combined illnesses were far more serious at Holy Cross where 65 persons, nearly 50 per cent of the population, died.\" (Van Stone, 1979:224)", + "startDate": 1898, + "endDate": 1901, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-156.94, 58.79] + "coordinates": [-159.874,62.561] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m61", - "description": "Bristol Bay experiences some type of epidemic. (Fortuine, 1992:213)", - "startDate": 1859, - "endDate": 1860, + "name": "m120", + "description": "The Inupiaq village of Wales experiences an epidemic of influenza in the spring, and nineteen hunters die. (Fortuine, 1992:212)", + "startDate": 1899, + "endDate": 1899, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-160.64, 58.10] + "coordinates": [-168.0866,65.6675] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m72", - "description": "Copper River Dene experience an epidemic - perhaps the scarlet fever. It \"..was reported to have killed many in February of 1866.\" (Arndt, 1996:163)", - "startDate": 1866, - "endDate": 1866, + "name": "m121", + "description": "Utqiaġvik (Barrow) has a trading feast with their inland Nunamiut cousins. An American whaling ship makes an appearance and starts an epidemic of influenza. Over two hundred Nunamiut die before they make it back to their interior villages. (Fortuine, 1992:212-213)", + "startDate": 1899, + "endDate": 1899, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-144.95, 60.39] + "coordinates": [-156.79087,71.28982] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m79", - "description": "St. Lawrence Island reports of a mass starvation in which two-thirds of the entire population die. (Hooper, 1880/1964:10-11; Crowell and Oozevaseuk, 2006:1-19)", - "startDate": 1879, - "endDate": 1880, + "name": "m122", + "description": "Anvik, a Deg X'itan village on the Yukon, has two influenza epidemics; so many people become ill that they can't fish, resulting in an extreme shortage of food. (Chapman and Sabine 1899:572 in Fortuine, 1992:213)", + "startDate": 1899, + "endDate": 1899, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-170.24, 63.40] + "coordinates": [-160.2179,62.6587] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m80", - "description": "The gold rush period begins in Auke-kwaan Tlingit territory as Joe Juneau and Richard Harris discover gold. This leads to the relocation of the Auke-kwan and the establishment of Juneau. It brings in disease, lawlessness and prostitution.

Miner W. Bruce; La Roche Photo
", - "startDate": 1880, - "endDate": 1880, + "name": "m123", + "description": "Bristol Bay along the Nushagak River, \"around the old Russian post at Nushagak, the Russian Orthodox church records listed 111 deaths in 1899, four times the usual number.\" (Fortuine, 1992: 213)", + "startDate": 1899, + "endDate": 1899, "dataRef": "", - "imageUrl": "https://www.miningnewsnorth.com/home/cms_data/dfault/photos/stories/id/8/8/6188/.TEMP/s_topTEMP425x425-7424.jpeg" + "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-134.41, 58.31] + "coordinates": [-158.280,58.447] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m105", - "description": "Wales, the western most village on the Seward Peninsula, experiences an epidemic brought by passing ships. The medical missionary, Dr. Driggs, works tirelessly to no avail. (Fortuine, 1989:211-212)", - "startDate": 1890, - "endDate": 1890, + "name": "m124", + "description": "Carmel, a Moravian Mission in the Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta, reports that all children under the age of two have died. (Fortuine, 1992:213)", + "startDate": 1899, + "endDate": 1899, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-168.09, 65.61] + "coordinates": [-160.109,60.220] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { - "name": "m115", - "description": "St. Lawrence Island experiences an influenza and/or pneumonia outbreak. (Fortuine, 1992:212)", - "startDate": 1898, - "endDate": 1898, + "name": "m125", + "description": "Hundreds of goldseekers converge on the Yukon River. Cantwell (1904:280-281) reports 46 steamers, 10 tugs, and 46 barges.

\"The epidemics of 1898-1900 were said to have moved from village to village on the steamboats…Although the number of dead in the lower Yukon villages was considerable, of equal significance was the weakened condition of those who survived. In the summers of 1899 and 1900 very little fishing was done and as a result famine threatened for two winters.\" (Van Stone, 1979:225)", + "startDate": 1900, + "endDate": 1900, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-152.754,64.978] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m126", + "description": "The \"Great Sickness\" arrives in two waves - a combination of measles and influenza which spread throughout western Alaska like wildfire, followed by measles and other secondary infections. All villages from Atka to Point Hope, and all villages on the Lower Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers are subject to this devastating epidemic that is still remembered today by the few survivors and their children. Among the Yup'ik, it is remembered as yuut tupupallratni or the 'Great Death'. (Napoleon, 1991:10)", + "startDate": 1900, + "endDate": 1900, "dataRef": "", "imageUrl": "" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-171.21, 63.51] + "coordinates": [-162.84,57.53] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "name": "m127", - "description": "An epidemic hits St. Paul and delays the fur seal harvest. “Near all Aleuts were affected.” (Fortuine, 1989:215)", + "description": "An epidemic hits St. Paul and delays the fur seal harvest. \"Near all Aleuts were affected.\" (Fortuine, 1989:215)", + "startDate": 1900, + "endDate": 1900, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-170.2758,57.1569] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m128", + "description": "Measles strikes the village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, and 100% of the population is ill. This is followed by an influenza epidemic (Fortuine, 1989:217).

The Measles originated in the Russian Far East or Siberia and spread to Alaska. (Wolfe, 1982:96)", + "startDate": 1900, + "endDate": 1900, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-171.7246,63.7691] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m129", + "description": "Measles appears on St. Paul in August, and 100% of the population is infected. (Fortuine, 1989:217)", "startDate": 1900, "endDate": 1900, "dataRef": "", @@ -328,7 +1829,7 @@ }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-170.26, 57.18] + "coordinates": [-170.2850,57.1614] } }, { @@ -343,7 +1844,7 @@ }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-162.15, 63.48] + "coordinates": [-162.0384,63.4737] } }, { @@ -358,7 +1859,97 @@ }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-166.59, 68.33] + "coordinates": [-166.7844,68.3477] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m132", + "description": "An epidemic of measles hits Utqiaġvik (Barrow), and over 100 die. The epidemic spreads to other north slope villages such as Point Hope (Wolfe, 1982:96). According to Brower, 126 die.

\"Early in September, 1902, one of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company's steamers, westward bound from Herschel Island, came in to land a sick Eskimo woman. If the skipper knew what ailed her he was mighty careful not to tell anybody. He just dumped her on the beach and sailed away…she died within two days. It wasn't long before the Eskimos began getting sick.\" (Brower, 1994:232)₁

Brower's memoir recounts the heartbreak, as the measles struck his family and his wife and one of his children died.", + "startDate": 1902, + "endDate": 1902, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-156.7884,71.2923] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m133", + "description": "A diphtheria and whooping cough epidemic occurs among the Deg X'inag of the Anvik-Shageluk area. Fort Yukon also experiences a diphtheria epidemic which spreads to other surrounding villages. (Van Stone, 1979:225)", + "startDate": 1904, + "endDate": 1904, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-159.8230,62.6790] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m134", + "description": "A diphtheria epidemic sweeps the Chandalar River villages, including Venetie. (Van Stone, 1979:225)", + "startDate": 1905, + "endDate": 1905, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-146.402,67.013] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m136", + "description": "Tanana Chiefs meet with territorial Governor James Wickersham. Chief Alexander requests medical aid. \"Every year little children die and there is no one to make them better.\" (Alexander, Chief letter to Judge James Wickersham, 9/11/1910)", + "startDate": 1910, + "endDate": 1910, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-152.152,65.197] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m137", + "description": "A smallpox epidemic occurs in Dawson and Fort Yukon. The Episcopal Church gives inoculations and tries to prevent the spread of the epidemic. (Simeone, 1982:98)", + "startDate": 1911, + "endDate": 1911, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-145.27757,66.56441] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m139", + "description": "The Episcopal Church introduces TB treatment at it's Fort Yukon hospital.", + "startDate": 1916, + "endDate": 1916, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-145.2658,66.5680] } }, { @@ -373,7 +1964,37 @@ }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-165.38, 64.52] + "coordinates": [-165.4033,64.5026] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m144", + "description": "An influenza epidemic in the lower Yukon affects Yup'ik villages Tupicuar and Putukulek, near Pilot Station and Pitkas Point. (Pratt, 2021:7-11)₁

\"By late winter the flu had grown to epidemic proportions. Individuals who were uninfected and still capable of traveling were afraid of contracting the flu, so most stayed put in their villages.\" (Pratt, 2021:8). They say not many people hunted that spring [ca. 1926] because people were sick all over the…Very many, many people had died (Polty and Evan 1985) in Pratt (2021:10).", + "startDate": 1925, + "endDate": 1925, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-163.0725,61.9819] + } + }, + { + "type": "Feature", + "properties": { + "name": "m145", + "description": "An influenza outbreak in Anvik and Holy Cross occurs right after a major flood. (Van Stone, 1979:227)", + "startDate": 1925, + "endDate": 1925, + "dataRef": "", + "imageUrl": "" + }, + "geometry": { + "type": "Point", + "coordinates": [-159.7934,62.2286] } }, { @@ -388,14 +2009,14 @@ }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", - "coordinates": [-152.09, 65.17] + "coordinates": [-152.055,65.175] } }, { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "name": "m147", - "description": "An influenza epidemic hits in Anvik, a lower Yukon Deg X’itan village; 27 adults die.

\"The villagers were so frightened by this second outbreak in less than three years that many fled the parent settlement and established a new community called Lower Anvik about 2 miles downriver.\" (Van Stone, 1979:227)", + "description": "An influenza epidemic hits in Anvik, a lower Yukon Deg X'itan village; 27 adults die.

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