Teaching in Alaska: What I Learned in the Bush

The Molly Hootch Act a little known (outside Alaska) law had a profound effect on the education of native Alaskan children. Mandating that every village have a public high school Alaska scrambled to erect buildings and recruit teachers from the lower 48. Bob and Julie Bolkan answered the call and set off for the remote bush village of Akiak.Among the first outsiders to live and work with the Yupik in their small villages this book tells Julies story of how she survived the culture clashes isolation weather and her struggles with honey buckets--a candid and often funny account of one gussock womans 12 years in the Alaskan bush.