In the 1950s, the U.S. Public Health Services/Alaska Native Health Services communicated medical news among the eight Alaska hospitals via "Mukluk Telegraph." The hospitals included were Anchorage, Barrow, Bethel, Juneau, Kanakanak, Kotzebue, Mt. Edgecumbe, and Tanana.

Today, "Mukluk Telegraph" is a quarterly newspaper of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and recently transferred from print communication to an electronic format.

Below, you can find PDFs of the following issues:

• Mukluk Telegraph July 1958
• Mukluk Telegraph August 1958
• Mukluk Telegraph September 1958
• Mukluk Telegraph November 1958
• Mukluk Telegraph February 1959
• Mukluk Telegraph April 1959
• Mukluk Telegraph May 1959

Anna Bortel, schoolteacher at the Tanana Day School in Tanana, Alaska, encouraged her students to publish a newspaper. The topics included school news, healthcare workers coming to and from the Public Health Services/Alaska Native Services hospital in Tanana, health advice from Dr. Gaede, interviews with people in the village, stories by students, general village news, jokes, news from the three churches in the village, successful hunters, dog sled race winners, and recipes.

Below, you can find PDFs of the following issues. (Dates that were not printed on the newsletter were determined by comparison to other newsletters.)

• Northern Lights October 1957
• Northern Lights October 1958
• Northern Lights November 1958
• Northern Lights December 1958
• Northern Lights January 1959
• Northern Lights February 1959
• Northern Lights March 1959
• Northern Lights May 1959

This publication comprehensively details the functions of the nine Alaska Native Health Service Hospitals that were in operation in 1957:

• Anchorage
• Barrow
• Bethel
• Fairbanks
• Kanakanak
• Kotzebue
• Tanana
• St. George
• St. Paul

In addition to providing a window into healthcare at that time, it allows for a comparison of the operations. The information includes aspects such as:

• physical plant (location of the hospital, assessment of the building itself, number of patient beds)
• availability and modes of transportation and communication
• roles of employees (Medical Officer in Charge, admitting services, nursing, X-ray technician, dentist, dictation, medical records)
• preventive healthcare

The Anchorage hospital offered the most services and employment, and understandably so since it was in the population hub of Alaska.

• Tanana Day School Christmas Program 1958
• Tanana Council News January 1959
• Tanana Post Card 1940s
• Fort Gibbon Waterfront Post Card 1940s
• Tanana Mail Team Post Card 1940s