The Teacher and the Superindentent: The Teacher and the Superintendent: Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior, 1904-1918 (At
The Teacher and the Superindentent: The Teacher and the Superintendent: Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior, 1904-1918 (Athabasca University Press) by George E. Boulter II
English | Feb. 26, 2016 | ISBN: 1927356504 | 436 Pages | PDF | 27 MB
English | Feb. 26, 2016 | ISBN: 1927356504 | 436 Pages | PDF | 27 MB
Working in the missions and schools along the Yukon River were George E. Boulter and Alice Green, his future wife. Boulter had begun teaching in 1905 and by 1910 had been promoted to superintendent of schools for the Upper Yukon District. In 1907, Green left a comfortable family life in New Orleans to answer the "call to serve" in the Episcopal mission boarding schools for Native children at Anvik and Nenana. Collected in The Teacher and the Superintendent are Boulter's letters and Green's diary. Together, their vivid, first-hand impressions bespeak the earnest but paternalistic beliefs of those who lived and worked in immensely isolated regions and provide us with an invaluable account of the daily conflicts that occurred between church and government and of the many injustices suffered by the Native population in the face of the misguided efforts of both institutions.