A Schoolteacher In Old Alaska

Author : Hannah Breece
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307490548
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska written by Hannah Breece and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly. It is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important--and, at times, unsettling--insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settler's behavior toward native communities at the turn of the century. "An unforgettable...story of a remarkable woman who lived a heroic life."--The New York Times

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030736707X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Schoolteacher In Old Alaska written by Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuit and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly. It is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important—and, at times, unsettling—insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settlers’ behaviour toward native communities at the turn of the century.

Author : Hannah Breece
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781299267176
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Author : J. Jacobs
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780517197127
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Teacher in Old Alaska written by J. Jacobs and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Specht
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613143462
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tisha written by Robert Specht and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1982-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920's to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there.

Author : Mary Breu
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882408526
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Letters from Attu written by Mary Breu and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was a school teacher whose life changed forever on that Sunday morning in June 1942 when the Japanese military invaded Attu Island and Etta became a prisoner of war. Etta and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this 40 something year old nurse from back east met Foster Jones and fell in love. They married and for nearly twenty years they lived, worked and taught in remote Athabascan, Alutiiq, Yup’ik and Aleut villages where they were the only outsiders. Their last assignment was Attu. After the invasion, Etta became a prisoner of war and spent 39 months in Japanese POW sites located in Yokohama and Totsuka. She was the first female Caucasian taken prisoner by a foreign enemy on the North American Continent since the War of 1812, and she was the first American female released by the Japanese at the end of World War II. Using descriptive letters that she penned herself, her unpublished manuscript, historical documents and personal interviews with key people who were involved with events as they happened, her extraordinary story is told for the first time in this book.

Author : Anne Purdy
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178720538X
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Boundary written by Anne Purdy and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1954, this book is an intriguing glimpse into the early days of the Alaskan village of Eagle, along the Yukon River. Anne Purdy, author of bestselling book Tisha, tells the story surrounding the lives of the Eagle Village Indians. She describes the end of the Gold Rush era changes that took place in the early part of the twentieth century, painting a vivid picture of life’s struggles here and of a woman who reaches out to those in desperate need of love and care. A tale of joy and sadness, with a final twist.

Author : Abbie Morgan Madenwald
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806126111
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arctic Schoolteacher written by Abbie Morgan Madenwald and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the author's story of how she and her husband ventured to Alaska during the Depression to teach and work with the Eskimos

Author : Kirkpatrick Hill
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN 13 : 153447854X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of Miss Agnes written by Kirkpatrick Hill and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Smithsonian Notable Book for Children A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year “Genius.” —The New York Times Book Review A beautiful repackage marking the twentieth anniversary of the beloved, award-winning novel that celebrates teachers and learning. Ten-year-old Frederika (Fred for short) doesn’t have much faith that the new teacher in town will last very long. After all, they never do. Most teachers who come to their one-room schoolhouse in remote Alaska leave at the first smell of fish, claiming that life there is just too hard. But Miss Agnes is different: she doesn’t get frustrated with her students, and finds new ways to teach them to read and write. She even takes a special interest in Fred’s sister, Bokko, who has never come to school before because she is deaf. For the first time, Fred, Bokko, and their classmates begin to enjoy their lessons—but will Miss Agnes be like all the rest and leave as quickly as she came?

Author : Mary F. Ehrlander
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496237390
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospital and Haven written by Mary F. Ehrlander and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich'in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the peoples' physical, social, and spiritual well-being. The era was marked by great social disruption within Alaska Native communities and high disease and death rates, owing to the influx of non-Natives in the region, inadequate sanitation and hygiene, minimal law enforcement, and insufficient government funding for Alaska Native health care. Hospital and Haven reveals the sometimes contentious yet promising relationship between missionaries, Alaska Natives, other migrants, and Progressive Era medicine. St. Stephen's Mission stood at the center of community life and formed a bulwark against the forces that threatened the Native peoples' lifeways and lives. Dr. Grafton (Happy or Hap) Burke directed the Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital, the only hospital to serve Alaska Natives within a several-hundred-mile radius. Clara Burke focused on orphaned, needy, and convalescing children, raising hundreds in St. Stephen's Mission Home. The Gwich'in in turn embraced and engaged in the church and hospital work, making them community institutions. Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe came to recognize the hospital and orphanage work at Fort Yukon as the church's most important work in Alaska.