Comments on: A Letter to President McKinley http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/07/02/a-letter-to-president-mckinley/ The Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas Wed, 08 May 2013 13:30:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eskimo Food Security: Why is the U.S helping to promote Starvation amongst the Inuit? - Page 2 - Christian Forums http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/07/02/a-letter-to-president-mckinley/comment-page-1/#comment-2860 Eskimo Food Security: Why is the U.S helping to promote Starvation amongst the Inuit? - Page 2 - Christian Forums Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:26:12 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=166#comment-2860 [...] [...]

]]> By: Isa Almisry http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/07/02/a-letter-to-president-mckinley/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Isa Almisry Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:10:27 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=166#comment-150 Btw, our Priest saw in Sitka a statue to Jackson, with the inscription “First Christian Missionary to Alaska.” Nearly a century too late for that.

St. Herman of Alaska, pray for us!

]]> By: Isa Almisry http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/07/02/a-letter-to-president-mckinley/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Isa Almisry Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:08:24 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=166#comment-149 Our priest went up to Alaska a year or so ago, and came back with a story about this. Seems the military (Alaska was a military district at the time) divided the territory up and gave a piece to each major Protestant group.

The Lutherans hit on the idea of importing Lapps and reindeer to their region: the Lapps would intermarry and make good Lutherans out of the Eskimos, and the reindeer would provide a livelihood.

Well, the Lapps did intermarry, but their Orthodox wives converted them. The reindeer went chasing after a herd of caribou, and were never seen again. What’s left of this experiment is a lot of Orthodox parishes filled with Eskimos with Nordic surnames.

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