Suggested Readings
These readings reflect some of the cautions and motivations we have considered in creating our curriculum and programming. Boarding schools have a complex history, especially in regards to Native students. Our place-based curriculum will encourage a cross-section of Alaskan youth to come together and build upon cultures.
The semester-long junior-year model will allow students access to our condensed leadership program before taking those skills back to their home schools.
Finally, we are committed and attentive to creating a safe and secure environment for our students to learn and build their skills toward achieving resiliency.
Children reading in Jesse Lee Home
Suggested Readings
Family After All: Alaska's Jesse Lee Home, Unalaska, 1889-1925 - Raymond L. Hudson
Family After All: Alaska's Jesse Lee Home: Seward, 1925-1965 - Jacquelin B. Pels
Book Review - Children's Voices, 1925-1965 - Library Banter Blog
Guide to "A Native Lad" Scenes - Unknown
Book Excerpt Diphtheria Epidemic - Unknown
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow - William Iġġiaġruk Hensley
Inhabited Wilderness - Theodore Catton
Four Fish - Paul Greenberg
Alaska's First People - Judy Ferguson
Growing Up Native in Alaska - Alexandra J. McClanahan
Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story - Charles Craighead and Bonnie Kreps
Alaska Native Education: Views from Within - Ray Barnhardt, Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
Creating Innovators - Tony Wagner
Growing Minds on Becoming a Teacher - Herbert Kohl
Long Way from Home - Judith Kleinfeld, Ed.D. & Joseph Bloom M.D.
Promises of the Past: A History of Indian Education - David Dejong
History of the 49th State - Claus Naske and Herman Slotnick
Alaska: An American Colony - Stephen Haycox
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