Download or read book Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska Bulletin 1929 written by William Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to maintaining schools for the native children of Alaska, the United States Bureau of Education aids entire communities by extending medical aid, by relieving destitution, by fostering commercial enterprises, by supervising the reindeer industry, and by promoting generally the interests of the natives. The organization of the Alaska division of the bureau consists of the office in Washington, D. C., the office in Seattle, Washington, which is the headquarters of the chief of the Alaska Division and functions as the purchasing and disbursing office for the bureau's Alaskan work, and the field force in Alaska, which, during the fiscal year 1927-28, included superintendents, teachers, physicians, nurses, employees in connection with the reindeer service, employees on the U. S. S. Boxer and on the Yukon River medical boat, cooks, janitors, and orderlies. Ninety-five schools were maintained with an enrollment of 3,742 pupils. In each of the day schools, in addition to instruction in the usual academic, subjects, attention is given to such industrial work as conditions permit. Sewing, cooking. and carpentry are emphasized. Important as the industrial work of the day schools is, it must be supplemented by specialized training in such activities as will enable the natives successfully to meet the new conditions resulting from the advance of civilization. With this in view, three industrial boarding schools are maintained, located at White Mountain, Alaska (on the Seward Peninsula); at Kanakanak, Alaska (on Bristol Bay); and at Eklutna, Alaska (on the Alaska Railroad north of Anchorage). The curriculum of these schools includes such industries as carpentry, furniture making, boat building, the making of clothes, shoemaking, sled construction, operation and repair of gas engines, ivory carving, taxidermy, and basket weaving. Having in view the necessity for the training of natives for service in connection with their cooperative stores, instruction is given in typewriting, stenography, clerical work, and business methods. Problems in connection with the reindeer industry are considered. Reindeer skins are tanned and made into garments. Instruction in health and sanitation is given by resident nurses. Directed play includes basketball, baseball, and tennis, as well as the primitive games of the natives themselves. Utilization of Alaska's food supply is stressed. Fish and berries, obtained plentifully during the season, are canned for winter use. The gardens at Eklutna. furnish many of the vegetables required and hunting expeditions by the older boys supply the school with the meat of the caribou and the mountain sheep. From these industrial schools students will go directly into the industrial and business life of their communities, applying at once the knowledge and skill gained in the schools. [Best copy available has been provided.].
Download or read book The Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska Bulletin 1921 written by Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED). and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the Bureau of Education for the natives of Alaska includes the Alaska school service, the Alaska medical service, and the Alaska reindeer service, with a field force in Alaska, in 1920, of 6 superintendents, 133 teachers, 9 physicians, and 13 nurses. This bulletin provides details on the following topics: (1) Extent of territory; (2) Supervision; (3) Control of expenditures; (4) Nature of the work; (5) Colony building; (6) Sale of native commodities; (7) Recent epidemics; (8) Transportation; (9) Census of Alaska; and (10) Reindeer service. [Best copy available has been provided.].
Download or read book Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska Bulletin 1927 written by William Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its Alaska division, the United State Bureau of Education is developing and educating an aboriginal population of different races dwelling in widely varying regions and climates, many of whom require assistance in adjusting themselves to the new conditions with which civilization has confronted them. The problem involves both educating children and the uplifting of entire communities. The work includes the maintenance of schools, hospitals, and orphanages; the relief of destitution; the fostering of trade; the organization of cooperative business enterprises; the establishment of colonies; and the supervision of the reindeer industry. This bulletin describes transportation changes that have facilitated access for people and goods; the level of involvement of teachers in supplementing health care provided by the Bureau, developing industrial education programs, extension of medical services to more communities, the status of the reindeer industry, and the impact of the Bureau of Education's work on the native populations. [Best copy available has been provided.].
Download or read book Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska Bulletin 1923 written by William Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The administration of the work of the Bureau of Education in Alaska involves great difficulties, arising principally from the remoteness of most of the schools, the enormous distances between the schools, the meager means of communication, and the severity of the climate. In addition to maintaining schools for the children belonging to the aboriginal races of Alaska, the bureau aids entire native communities by extending medical relief, by maintaining sanitary methods of living, by fostering the commercial enterprises of the natives, by promoting the reindeer industry, and by relieving destitution. The field force in Alaska in 1922 included 5 superintendents, 144 teachers, 8 physicians, 14 nurses, 5 nurses in training, 16 hospital attendants, and 7 herders in charge of reindeer belonging to the Government. Seventy schools were in operation, with an enrollment of 3,679. Orphanages were maintained at Kanakanak and Tyonek for the care of children left destitute by the epidemic of influenza which prevailed in those regions. [Best copy available has been provided.].
Download or read book Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska Bulletin 1925 written by William Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bulletin documents the work of the Alaska division of the Bureau of Education. It reports advance sheets for the biennial survey of education, 1922-1924. The Alaska division is required to make provision for the education of the natives of Alaska, extend to them all possible medical relief, train them to self-support, and, so far as possible, relieve worthy cases of destitution. The work is under the supervision of the chief of the Alaska division, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, which: (1) functions as a purchasing and disbursing agent; (2) selects and recommends to the Commissioner of Education the appointment of bureau employees in Alaska; (3) expends or invests, as requested, funds sent to it by employees in Alaska, by cooperative store of the natives, or by individual natives of Alaska; and (4) sells commodities, such as furs, ivory, and reindeer meat, for the natives and remits, deposits, or expends the proceeds as directed. The field force in Alaska during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1924, included one superintendent, 5 district superintendents, 151 teachers, 8 physicians, 21 nurses, 12 hospital attendants, and 8 herders in charge of reindeer belonging to the Government. The teachers not only carried on the educational work in the schoolrooms of 83 schools, but, in many instances, were responsible for the relief of destitution, for the extending of medical aid to natives in the vicinity of the school, and for the supervising of the industries and of the reindeer herds tributary to the school. The bureau's work was carried on in 116 buildings, including school buildings, teachers' residences, hospitals, and orphanages. [Best copy available has been provided.].
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Download or read book Report on the Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska 1913 14 Bulletin 1915 written by Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED). and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1914, the field force of the Bureau of Education in Alaska consisted of 5 superintendents, 1 assistant superintendent, 106 teachers, 11 physicians, 11 nurses, and 3 hospital attendants. Seventy-one schools were maintained, with an enrollment of 3,666 and an average attendance of 1,991. The following recommendations were made for Alaskan natives: (1) The imperative necessity for adequate and special provision by congressional appropriation for the medical relief of the Eskimos, Indians, Aleuts, and other natives of Alaska can not be too strongly urged. Three school buildings have been remodeled for use as improvised hospitals, a few physicians and nurses have been employed, and the teachers have been supplied with simple remedies to enable them to treat minor ailments. This makeshift arrangement should be replaced by an adequate medical service such has been repeatedly recommended by the Bureau of Education in the estimates submitted to Congress; (2) One of the greatest difficulties with which those responsible for the work of the Bureau of Education have to contend is the fact that the congressional appropriation for the support of this work is usually not available until the end of August. With the exception of the southern coast, all of Alaska is icebound for eight months of the year. It is only during July, August, and September that supplies can be delivered at places in the interior of Alaska and on the shores of the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. It is therefore recommended that the estimates for the support of the work of the Bureau of Education in Alaska be taken out of the sundry civil bill and included in the urgent deficiency bill; and lastly, (3) It is recommended that the appropriations for the support of the Alaska school service and of the Alaska reindeer service be made reimbursable, as is the case with regard to several of the appropriations for the support of the Indian service in the States. (Contains 17 plates and 1 footnote.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
Download or read book WORK OF THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION FOR THE NATIVES OF ALASKA 1916 17 written by UNITED STATES. BUREAU OF EDUCATION. and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska 1917 18 Bulletin 1919 written by Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED). and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the year the field force of the Bureau of Education in Alaska consisted of 5 superintendents, 1 assistant superintendent, 116 teachers, 9 physicians, and 11 nurses. Sixty-nine schools were maintained with an enrollment of 3,635. School buildings were erected at White Mountain, whither the Eskimos had migrated from Council; at Elim, within a tract on Norton Sound which had been reserved by Executive order for the use of the Eskimos formerly inhabiting the village of Golovin; at Fort Yukon, to replace the school building which the erosion of the river bank had rendered unsafe; and at Tyonek, where the small log building hitherto used for school purposes had proved to be inadequate; at Metlakatla a residence was erected for occupancy by the principal teacher. The wisdom of the policy of setting aside selected tracts within which the natives can readily obtain fish and game and advantageously conduct their own enterprises has again been demonstrated by the success of the colony at Noorvik in Arctic Alaska. With their advancement in civilization, the Eskimos living at Deering on the bleak sea coast, craved a new home. Lack of timber compelled them to live in the semiunderground hovels of their ancestors, while the killing off of the game animals made it increasingly difficult for them to obtain food. An uninhabited tract on the bank of the Kobuk River, 15 miles square, abounding in game, fish, and timber, was reserved by Executive order for these Eskimos, and thither they migrated with their household goods and herds of reindeer. On this tract in the Arctic wilderness, the colonists under the leadership of the teachers, within two years have built a village with well laid-out streets, neat single-family houses, gardens, a mercantile company, a sawmill, an electric light plant, and a wireless telegraph station, which keeps them in touch with the outside world. Affairs at Metlakatla, on Annette Island, have made satisfactory progress. The legality of the Annette Island Fishery Reserve has been established by the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, December 9, 1918, and plans for the development of the colony can now confidently be carried into effect. By a lease dated April 30, 1917, the Secretary of the Interior, on behalf of the Metlakatlans, granted to the Annette Island Packing Co., of Seattle, fish-trapping privileges within the reserved waters adjacent to Annette Island and permission to erect and operate a cannery on Annette Island. For these privileges the lessee guaranteed the payment of not less than $4,000 during the season of 1917 and of not less than $6,000 per annum for five years beginning with 1918. It is expected that the revenues accruing from this lease will enable the Secretary of the Interior to take over, for the Metlakatlans, the property of the lessee within the reserve and to arrange for the operation of the cannery by the natives themselves. Lapps and Reindeer in Sweden and Norway is appended. (Contains 8 plates.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
Download or read book Report on the Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska 1916 17 Bulletin 1918 written by Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED). and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the Bureau of Education for the native races of Alaska has been carried on in accordance with the terms and purposes of Congressional appropriations for their education, medical relief, and for the extension of the reindeer industry among them. In the schools, emphasis has been placed upon instruction in matters pertaining to health, industrial training, gardening, and commercial education. Effort has been made to improve living conditions in the villages, to lessen the death rate, and to render the natives better able to meet the changing conditions with which the advancing civilization of the White man has confronted them. Sixty-eight schools were maintained with an enrollment of 3.666 and an average attendance of 2,172. Four superintendents, 1 acting superintendent, 111 teachers, 5 physicians, and 10 nurses were employed. The Bureau of Education also encourages the establishment in native villages of cooperative mercantile stores, financed by native capital and conducted by the natives themselves, under the supervision of the teacher of the local United States public school. This bulletin is divided into three sections. Part I is a general summary; Part II presents detailed reports from superintendents, physicians, and teachers; and Part III contains extracts from the report of the Governor of Alaska, 1917. (Contains 7 figures and 5 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
Download or read book Report on the Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska 1911 12 written by United States. Bureau of Education and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Record of Current Educational Publications Jan 1912 Jan Mar 1932 written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Work of the Bureau of Education for the Natives of Alaska 1912 13 Bulletin 1914 No 31 Whole Number 605 written by Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED). and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1913, the field force of the Alaska school service consisted of 5 superintendents, 109 teachers, 11 physicians (1 of whom also filled another position), 9 nurses, and 3 hospital attendants. Seventy-seven schools were maintained, with an enrollment of 3,563, and an average attendance of 1.797. This bulletin on the work of the Bureau of Education for Natives of Alaska is divided into two sections. Part I--General Summary--contains: (1) Report on education (character of the work; medical work; reservations; economic aid to natives; legislation; recommendations; list of persons in the Alaska school service; and summary of expenditures); and (2) Report on the reindeer service (growth of the enterprise; administration; distribution; a native industry; summary of expenditures; and statistical tables). Part II--Detailed Reports--covers the following topics: (1) Reports by superintendents A. N. Evans and Walter C. Shields; (2) Reports by teachers in Barrow, Wainwright, Kivalina, Noatak, Selawik, Atka, Seldovia, and Sitka; (3) Reports on health conditions: (a) report on health conditions in the native villages along the Arctic coast (by Emil Krulish); (b) report on health conditions in the native villages in southeastern Alaska (by Emil Krulish); and (c) report on an epidemic of measles at Konai, in southwestern Alaska (by W. E. Kuppler and Alice M. Dolan); and (4) Special reports on the Hydaburg colony and Metlakahtla. (Contains 13 plates.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the the Fifty third Congress to the 76th Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 2556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Record of Current Educational Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
