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Article: TEACHER BROUGHT EDUCATION TO THE EDGE OF CIVILIZATION.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1996
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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 ...