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Peer reviewedDucker, James H. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1996
In the early 1900s, the Alaskan Bureau of Education tried to lure the Inupiat away from "corrupting" white mining communities and encourage settlement of new Native communities by erecting schools in areas isolated from white influence. The Inupiat's interest in Western education plus the opportunity to maintain traditional subsistence…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Cultural Maintenance
Scott, Elva R. – 1982
The 80-year history of education at Eagle on the Yukon (Alaska) includes 40 years when a dual system (white-Indian) was in operation, times when only one school was open, and changes following statehood. Eagle City was founded in 1898; the first white school opened in 1901 with seven students. The Indians lived at Eagle Village, 3 miles upriver.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Educational History
Download full textUnited States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
Volume II of the Commissioner of Education's report presents statistics and discussion on state common-school systems; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical colleges; professional schools; normal schools; secondary schools; manual and industrial training; commercial and business…
Descriptors: State Schools, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Colleges
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
Volume I of the 1916-18 Biennial Survey of Education includes the following chapters: (1) A survey of higher education (Samuel P. Capen and Walton C. John); (2) Medical education (N. P. Colwell); (3) Engineering education (F. L. Bishop); (4) Commercial education (Frank V. Thompson); (5) Public education in the cities of the United States: The…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Engineering Education, African American Education, Medical Education
