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wife were transferred from Loriug, which school was abandoned, to 

 Fort Tongass. The year 1887 was marked by the visit to southeastern 

 Alaska of the Hon. N. H. R. Dawson, then Commissioner of Education ; 

 also the establishment by the Secretary of the Interior of a Territorial 

 board of education composed of the governor of the Territory, the judge 

 of the United States district court, and the general agent of education. 

 Under the new order of things a set of rules and regulations for gov- 

 erning the schools of Alaska was issued by the Secretary of the Interior 

 on June 15, 1887. The year was also noted by the removal of some 700 

 civilized and christianized Tsimpshean natives, under the lead of Mr. 

 William Duncan, from Metlakahtla, British Columbia, to Point Chester, 

 Annette Island, Alaska. The colony was called New Metlakahtla. 



The school temporarily establislied the previous year at St. Michael 

 on the coast of Bering Sea was removed to Anvik in the Yukon V- alley. 

 During the year a second school was established at Juneau for the use 

 of the native children. Considerable friction was developed by the 

 attempt to unite the children of the white and native population in the 

 same schoolroom. During the year a school building was erected by 

 the Government at Killisnoo. This was the first school building erected 

 by the Government in Alaska. 



The native industrial training school, Sitka, Alaska, was established 

 by the Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in 1880. 

 In the absence of any public provision by the Government for needy 

 orphans, they were freely received into the school. Small children 

 whose mothers had died, and for whom there was no one to care, were 

 also received. It became a refuge for homeless and friendless waifs, 

 for children fleeing for their lives from the tortures of witchcraft. It 

 gave them a good home and a training that made them good citizens 

 instead of allowing them to grow up vagabonds. It also became a 

 reformatory to which the United States district court, not knowing 

 what else to do with young offenders, committed them. It was the only 

 place in Alaska where a young man could learn a trade. It also 

 became the high school to which bright pupils in the various day 

 schools desiring greater advantages than their local school could afford 

 them were advanced. It also, to a limited extent, gave normal training 

 to the first of the native teachers of the country. In 1881 it was made 

 a contract school under the Indian Bureau of the Government, but in 

 1887 it was transferred to the care of the Bureau of Education, with 

 an enrollment of 180 pupils, representing 15 nationalities or tribes. 

 During the year an English school and mission was opened at Yakutat 

 by Kev. Adolf Lydell, representing the Swedish Evangelical Mission 

 IJnion of the United States. During the school year 1887-88, school- 

 houses were erected at Sitka and Juneau, and the Government hospital 

 at Wrangell refitted and made into a comfortable schoolroom. The 

 school year 1887-88 was marked by the death of Rev. L. W. Currie, 

 teacher at Klawack, the erection of a building for school No. 2 at Sitka, 

 the transference of 2 boys and 4 girls from the training school at Sitka 

 to the East for education. The 4 girls were sent to the Ladies' Semi- 

 nary at Northfleld, Mass., at the expense of Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard. 

 The 2 boys were cared for at the Indian school at Carlisle. 



During the year 1888-89 the former school board of three was in- 

 creased to five by the addition of the United States commissioner at 

 Fort Wrangell and Mr. William Duncan, superintendent of the colony 

 of Metlakahtla. In 1889-90, to take effect on the 1st of July, 1890, 

 the Secretary of the Interior issued a new set of rules and regulations 

 for the conduct of schools and education in the District of Alaska. 



