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Identifier: alaskaklondike00mcla (find matches)
Title: Alaska and the Klondike
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: McLain, John Scudder, b. 1853
Subjects: Alaska Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries
Publisher: New York : McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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al considerations. The Government, however, exer-cises a degree of supervision over all these schools, andencourages education not only in the common branchesof the ordinary rural school, but in such simple arts asare likely to be most useful to the pupil. These schoolsare not always entirely Indian schools. It often happensthat children of white parents and Russian Creoles areattendants with the Indian children. Notable among theschools w^here industrial training is given are Holy CrossMission at Koserefsky, on the Yukon, and in the SitkaIndustrial School. These institutions teach the boys theuse of tools, the raising of crops, and the rudiments ofseveral trades, while the girls are taught sewing and house-keeping. The opportunities for making use of this indus-trial training are not as many as could be desired for eitherboys or girls, but the boys have more chances to applytheir knowledge in gainful occupations than girls. Thefate of the educated Indian girl is often one that cannot
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Eskimo Woman and Child 28S ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE be contemplated with satisfaction, and this is true not onlyin Alaska, but among the Indians in the States. Incor-porated towns maintain public schools of the usual planand scope. Outside of these towns there are thirty-threeof these so-called public schools, although connected innearly every instance with some church mission, andhaving an enrollment of 2,100 pupils. And yet it is not fair to conclude that the Indians ofAlaska cannot be taught to be useful and self-supporting.Reference was made in the first chapter of this story ofthe tour of the senatorial committee to the unique settle-ment known as Metlakahtla, on Annette Island, one ofthe most southerly in the American portion of the south-west archipelago. Here the Indian problem has beenworked out with the most satisfactory results, and thesuccessful experiment is valuable as evidence of what theAlaska Indian is capable of. William Duncan came to Port Simpson as a lay mission-ar

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