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St. Pius X mission school Ethnohistory project

Project Details

Keywords: Skagway, boarding school, Tlingit, Catholic mission
Student Investigator:
Miguel Rohrbacher
Faculty Mentors: Robin Walz, Ph.D., Daniel Monteith, Ph.D.

Abstract

An Ethnohistory of the Pius X mission school, which was a Catholic boarding school for Alaska native children that operated from the 1930's until the late 1950's. This research is the result of interviews with students as well as church and civil documents.