Taken to Extremes: Education in the Far North. Frank Darnell and Anton Hoëm
Chapter 4
Historical Development of Schooling
Footnotes
1Much of the early history reported in this section is adapted from Darnell 1970.
13Unpublished document on file in the archives of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Seattle, Washington.
16US Department of Interior 1918, pp. 11, 74.
19For a detailed discussion of curriculum during this period, see Ray 1959, pp. 58-111.
20US Department of Interior, Bureau of Education 1926, p. 500.
22US Department of Interior 1934, p. 129.
23US Department of Interior 1949, in Jenness 1962, p. 59.
27Alaska Constitution, art. VII, sec. 1.
29Conference on Alaska Secondary Education, Transcript of Proceedings, December 1968, on file in the State Department of Education, pp. 51-52.
31The borough is a unique feature of Alaska’s local government. Article X of the Alaska Constitution provides for a pattern of local government consisting of cities and organized and unorganized boroughs, but with no other local government entities permitted. The legislature determines the classification of cities and boroughs, prescribes their organization and powers, and allows for the enactment of home rule charters. In short, they are intermediate forms of government between state and local levels. Only those areas with adequate reason for intermediate government have been organized in this way, leaving a large unorganized borough throughout much of rural Alaska. It is in this area that many village schools are located.