Subtitle:Alaskan Pioneer Teacher, Missionary, Leader. Book portrays life in early Southeast Alaska as revealed in the work of George James Beck, who taught at the Sitka Training School from l895 to l912 and, after ordination, served until l936 as Presbyterian minister in Kake, Klukwan, Hoonah, and Ketchikan. At the school he harnessed energy first to mechanize wood sawing and later to bring electric lighting to school. In villages he organized governing bodies; tended the sick and dying under freezing conditions during l9l9 influenza epidemic; built hydro- electric dam, churches, and manses; manned the mission boat to carry his mission to isolated settlements, and served in as civilian chaplain in both World Wars. No wonder they called him ka.gun.da, Tlingit for "torch."
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Mary Beck's collection of legends from Tlingit and Haida folklore provides an excellent look at not only the mythology but the values and culture of these Southeast Alaska Natives. Anchorage News: Rich legends of Haida Tlingit culture are tapped with good results by Mary Beck in Shamans and Kushtakas . . (she) presents her stories in an effective, entertaining manner. Homer News on Heroes and Heroines -- Homer News on Heroes and Heroines
Reader is keenly aware of care and scholarship Mary Beck has brought to her work. . . Beck has detailed the hows and whys of events, giving the bone and fiber to flesh out a complete understanding. -- Ketchikan Daily News on Potlatch
Reader is keenly aware of care and scholarship Mary Beck has brought to her work. . . Beck has detailed the hows and whys of events, giving the bone and fiber to flesh out a complete understanding. -- Ketchikan Daily News on Potlatch
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Mary Giraudo Beck received an MA degree from Stanford and has lived in Ketchikan, Alaska, since l951, when she married a third-generation Alaskan, grandson of George James Beck. Besides rearing a family, she taught literature and writing at the Ketchikan campus of University of Alaska for thirty years. She has written three other books, all on the Native culture of Southeast Alaska.
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