Article: TEACHER BROUGHT EDUCATION TO THE EDGE OF CIVILIZATION.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

Byline: BERNICE GROHSKOPF

A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska

The Story of Hannah Breece

Edited by Jane Jacobs

Randon House 302 pp. $24

Hannah Breece was 45 years old in 1904 when she was selected by the U.S. Department of Interior to teach school in the Kodiak archipelago.

She had been a teacher for 24 years, part of the time teaching Indians on a Rocky Mountain reservation. The words ``feminism'' or ``women's liberation'' would have been unknown to her. But this indomitable, imaginative, self-confident woman sailed off into a comparatively unknown land of primitive people to teach their children and remained there for 14 ...

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