Alaska Natives in Past Boarding Schools - Journal of American ...

Table 2Schools Attended & Location for Boarding School Study ParticipantsSchools attended Location Type of school # of participants/ Opened/schoolclosedInstitute of American Santa Fe, Lower 48 1 1962 1Indian Arts New Mexico Boarding SchoolAnchorage Boarding Anchorage, Alaska Boarding Home 5 1966Home ProgramChilocco Indian Chilocco, Oklahoma Lower 48 1 1884-1980SchoolBoarding SchoolChemawa Indian Portland, Oregon Lower 48 7 1880SchoolBoarding SchoolCopper Valley (near) Glenallen, Religious/Private 9 1956-1971Boarding School AlaskaDillingham Foreign Dillingham, Alaska Special BIA 2 1970sStudy ProgramBoarding HomeProgramFairbanks Boarding Fairbanks, Alaska Boarding Home 2 1966Home ProgramFriends High School Kotzebue, Alaska Religious/Private 2 1887Haskell Institute Lawrence, Kansas Vocational School 1 1884Holy Cross Boarding Holy Cross, Alaska Boarding School 1 1880’s-1956SchoolJesse Lee Home Seward, Alaska Orphanage 1 1890-1970 2Mt. Edgecumbe Sitka, Alaska State/Public 29 1947-presentBoarding SchoolBoarding SchoolNenana Boarding Nenana, Alaska Boarding Home 1 1966-1976HomeNome Beltz Regional Nome, Alaska Regional Boarding 4 1972/73-High School School present 3Palmer Boarding Palmer, Alaska Boarding Home 1 1966-1976HomePius Tenth Mission Skagway, Alaska Religious/Private 1 1930s-1950sSeward Sanitarium Seward, Alaska Tuberculosis hospice 1 1940s-1950sSheldon Jackson Sitka, Alaska Religious/Private 2 1917-1965Boarding High SchoolSt. Mary’s Catholic St. Mary’s, Alaska Religious/Private 4 1902-1987HighVictory Bible School Palmer, Alaska Religious/Private 1 1947-Wasilla Boarding Wasilla, Alaska Boarding Home 1 1966HomeWilliam E. Beltz Nome, Alaska Regional Boarding 2 1966-1972/73Boarding SchoolSchoolWrangell Institute Wrangell, Alaska State/Public Boarding 16 1932-1975School1Became a post-secondary institution sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s.2Opened initially in Unalaska, moved to Seward in 1925, damaged in the 1964 earthquake, and merged with otherprograms in Anchorage in 1970 to become Anchorage Children’s Services Inc.3Now a local (non-residential) high school.Journal of American Indian Education - Volume 47, Issue 3, 2008 11