Arctic Schoolteacher: Kulukak, Alaska, 1931–1933
Memoir
By: Abbie Morgan Madenwald
Date: 1992
Source: Madenwald, Abbie Morgan. Arctic Schoolteacher: Kulukak, Alaska, 1931–33. Norman, Okla., and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
About the Author: Abbie Morgan Madenwald (1908–1991) received most of her education at Washington State College. She was a lifelong teacher who began her career in a one-room schoolhouse. In 1931 she and her husband, Ed, accepted a contract to teach the Yup'ik Alaska Natives in a remote region of the Alaska territories. After the death of her husband, she returned home to Washington State to continue teaching, did graduate work at Columbia, and married Orville Madenwald. She never returned to Kulukak, but remained in contact with several of the Yup'ik while she worked for many years on the manuscript that would become Arctic Schoolteacher. She died in 1991, just as her book...
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