KALITAN

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._

1907




_Illustrated_


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