School Teacher 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Marilyn Forrester
Publisher : Publication Consultants
ISBN 13 : 1594331758
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching at the Top of the World written by Marilyn Forrester and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marilyn Forrester arrived in Alaska in 1977 with a goal of striking it rich by being a welder on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. With her traumatic divorce behind her, a new English degree, return airline ticket, and $200 in her pocket, she was ready for adventure. However, she didn’t do welding, but had unique and exciting adventures as she worked for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company in Anchorage, at Pump Station Five, and later at Prudhoe Bay. While working at Prudhoe Bay, she applied for a teaching position at Alaska Business College, and was immediately hired. Marilyn discovered she loved teaching and learning! After many humorous predicaments, she was hired at the Bush village of Napaskiak. As a teacher, Marilyn has a deep love for children that shines through in Teaching at the Top of the World. Sometimes Marilyn reflected, “And they are even paying me to do this job.” She became an advocate for her Special Education students. Her many adventures include being lost in a whiteout while walking home from school, showering without soap and drying with Kleenex, and golfing in the Nome Bering Sea Tournament. Teaching at the Top of the World chronicles the joys and hardships of living and teaching in remote Alaska. Perhaps she really did strike it rich—she affected the lives of hundreds of children.Marilyn was one of the writers featured in Alaska Women Write, a collection of stories about adventurous Alaska women.

Author : Naomi Gaede-Penner
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781680281606
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Is for Alaska written by Naomi Gaede-Penner and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this rite of passage eluded Anna Bortel, she did not bemoan her singlehood. Instead, in 1954, this young school teacher drove up the Alaska-Canada Highway from Ohio to Valdez, where snow was measured in feet and an Easter Egg hunt unheard of event. Her curiosity wasn't quelled. She pushed farther north to an isolated Athabascan village along the Yukon River. Teaching and living in drafty Quonset huts with freezing oil lines at 50 below zero added to her teaching rigors. Discouraged? Yes. Daunted? No. You'll smile, laugh, and shake your head in amazement as you read these heartwarming, inspiring, and captivating stories of teaching in the Territory of Alaska.

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.