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Alaska Alive HIstory Timeline

By ljangala
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    John Veniaminov works in Alaska

    Published encompassing- geology, botany, anothropolgy
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    Opens a Biligual School

    John Veniaminov opens An Aluet/Russian School
    Saint Michael's Cathedral in Sitka
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    Archangel Senmary

  • Tillie Kinnon Paul born

    Mother a Tlingit father was a Scottsman
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    Alsaka was sold to America

    Schools desinged to train bilingual Natives leaders to help conduct church services
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    Sale of Alsaka

    Metropolition of Moscow

  • John Brady

    an industrial boading school of Natives @Sheldon Jackson College
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    Sheldon Jackson - A Christian Soldiers's viosion of Alaska

  • Mrs. Farland's Home for Girls

    Tillie became the leader
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    Navy Rule

    Jackson only through massive converstions of Christianantity could Alaskan Natives be spared
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    Sarah Dickinson ran ran Chilkat Tlingit's for Pesbyterian Churches

  • Mrs. E.S. Willard opens Haines Mission

    employes Sarah Dickinson as a teacher
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    Tillie marries Louis Francis Paul

    -Tlingit and White
    -comissioned by Pebyterian Board of Home Mission to open a school in Klulwan
    -Tries to drcrease shamanism
    -opposes the factor of alcohol
    -has first child moves to Wrangell

  • Board of Home Missions

    Replace military jurisdisctions with civil gov't

  • Organic Act

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    First Organic Act- Cicil Gov't to Alaska

  • Public Education- Jackson Federal Agent

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    Started School

    Proper provivions for educatin of children without race
    -stared seperate school
    -parrellel school systems
    -English onle spoken
    -Led to the suppression of Native Cultures

  • Sarah Dickson married George

    R.S. Hall made her his first translator

  • Native Sabbath Schoo Teacher

    A weekly class for training teachers in Juneau.
    Sunday School for Juneau
    Thlingget Presbeterian Church
    -Christian Training School
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    Paul becomes President of the Native Temperance Society in Sitka

    Also in charge of Boy's Hospital as an nurse

  • Tillie Dickinson joins staff of Sitka Industrial

  • Francis (Frannie) Willard

    Frist Alaskan to take charge of a school (Sitka Industrial Trainig School)

  • the dual federal-territorial system of education established

    Alaska's educational history is complex because of the dual federal-territorial system of education established in 1905

  • Alsaka a U.S. Territory with own Legislation

  • U.S. Gov't closed Orthodox Churches on St. Paul until 1970's

  • Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    which granted citizenship to all American Indian and Alaska Native people who were not already citizens of the United States.

  • Women are elgible to be elected church elders

    -After Presbyterian General Assemby in Cincinnati declared it
    -Native Presbyterian Church of Wrangell made Dickinson an elder
    -First nperson in the U.S. to hold the position

  • Federal Government under Bureau of Education

    has assumed responsibility for the social welfare and education of most rural Native people.

  • Johnson O’Malley Act

    intent to provide a means for transferring the education of Indian children from the federal government to state and local school systems

  • BIA opens Mt. Edgecumbe

  • BIA began to transfer some of the schools it had been operating to the Territory of Alaska for operation as contract schools.

  • Jan. 3. Statehood Act approved by Congress

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    Formation of Alaska State Operated School System

  • all the regional high schools are failing Native students.

  • Tobeluk Consent Decree

    The Alaska State Board of Education adopts regulations assuring every child a right to attend high school in his or her own community if there is an elementary school there.

  • Indian Self-Determination and Education Assist. Act

  • Public Law 95-561 assigned control over BIA schools to tribal governing bodies

    to school boards appointed by tribal governing bodies; Federal policy placed emphasis on local control of schools