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The Petropavlovsk Seminary in Kamchatka is relocated to Sitka and called the New Archangel Seminary. It opened with 54 students, 3 teachers, and a library. 23 of those students were Alaska Native and the curriculum included 6 years Native languages, Aleut, Tlingit, and Yupik.
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Jackson founded a mission at Wrangell, Alaska. Soon after, his protege John Brady, created a boarding school for natives of Sitka. This school was the forerunner of today’s Sheldon Jackson College
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Muir sets out from Wrangell to Lynn Canal by canoe with four Tlingit paddlers and S. Hall Young.
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She was employed as a teacher. She helped may a foundation for the Presbyterian missionaries the Reverend and Mrs. E. S. Willlard, who arrived a year later to open Haines Mission.
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The Organic Act provides public education. Sheldon Jackson was named federal education agent for Alaska. Although Congress increased the appropriation for education in Alaska to $40,000 in 1885, the funds were not adequate to accomplish the task assigned in so vast a territory.
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Louis Paul and Samuel Saxman both drown and die. Shortly after, Tillie gives birth to her third child which she names him Louis. She moves to Sitka and started teaching at the town’s Native school and at the Sitka Industrial Training School, a Presbyterian residential school for Native students.
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The Hootch family filed a lawsuit against the State of Alaska, charging discriminatory practice on the part of the state, was filed by Alaska Legal Services, on behalf of rural secondary-aged students, for not providing local high school facilities for predominantly Native communities when it did for same-size, predominantly non-Native, communities.
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The lawsuit that became the Tobeluk v. Lind case was settled. In the settlement, the state of Alaska agreed that it would establish a high school program in every community in Alaska where there was an elementary school which required a minimum enrollment of eight students and one or more secondary students.
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The Education Amendments Act is established. In Alaska, the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act and Education Amendments Act further increased federal incentives favoring community control of BIA schools, including the hiring and firing of teachers as well as the design of curriculum.
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The United States government extended its oceanic jurisdiction to 200 miles offshore. In the late 1980s, a group of Native fisherman from the Bering Sea coastal villages approached Senator Ted Stevens and proposed that a small portion of the annual catch from key stocks be designated as a Community Development Quota. In 1994, six nonprofit organizations were created to receive the annual quotas. One of the uses is for providing post secondary scholarships to students.
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The act required that the State of Alaska establish a similar priority or lose its authority to regulate fish and wildlife resources on federal lands. However, since 1992, State of Alaska has not been in compliance with ANILCA. In 1996, United States government began managing fish and wildlife on federal lands.
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Congress created The Alaska Natives Commission. When Congress created the Commission, it was directed to conduct a comprehensive study of the social and economic status of Alaska Natives and the effectiveness of the policies and programs of the United States and of the State of Alaska that affect Alaska Natives.
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The Commission produces a four volume Final Report. It provided the stimulus and the rationale for most subsequent policy initiatives that continue to be implemented at both state and federal levels. In addition, the Alaska Federation of Natives has sponsored numerous policy and program initiatives of its own to follow through on the Alaska Natives Commission recommendations.
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