Extra Tough: Leadership and Activism by Women of the North
Use this booklet with 7-12 grade students to investigate themes of leadership and activism by women of the North. In its pages, you will find content, writing, drawing, and activity prompts to help students engage with primary source artworks, newspapers, and archival images relating to female leadership and activism in Alaska. The teacher resource guide contains extension activities, additional primary sources, and further background information to help facilitate the use of this booklet in the classroom or at home.
Thank you to the for their generosity in sharing several archival images for inclusion as primary sources in this booklet.
Investigate the related Extra Tough: Women of the North Exhibition. On view at the 果冻传煤 Museum November 6th, 2020鈥擲eptember 6th, 2021.
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Print this booklet double-sided on a standard 8.5"x11" paper and fold in half.
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Moosemeat, John Hedberg and Alice E. Hedberg Brown Collection; 果冻传煤 Museum; B2001.011
Fred Machetanz;聽惭颈辞飞补办;听1937; Gift of Mrs. Levi Browning; 1972-106-001
Barrow, Whaling, Whale Feast, May 1981, Fran Durner Collection, 果冻传煤 Museum, B2016-4.21-15
Gordon Henning, Marie Silverman Collection, 果冻传煤 Museum; B1963.16.74
Ketchikan, ANB-ANS. Steve McCutcheon, McCutcheon Collection, 果冻传煤 Museum, B1990.14.5
Alaska Native Sisterhood Started in Fall of 1914; Josephine Ukas;聽The Thlinget; July, 1982
