Cultural Change in the Aleutian Islands:
Contact with Another Culture

A 6th Grade Social Studies Unit

This unit is the result of several years of research and writing, but more importantly, of a number of rewritings. Invaluable help was provided in ensuring the accuracy and practical value of the information and ideas presented herein.

At the writing end of the process, special thanks go to several people who supplied information and read and corrected drafts of the unit.

Those include:
Moses Dirks
Douglas Veltre
Richard Dauenhauer
Ray Hudson
Indian Education Act Native Advisory Committee
Many state and federal agencies

At the field-testing end of the process, special thanks go to those 21 teachers who were willing to take a chance with untried materials and were willing to spend time letting me know how the materials needed to be changed. Those teachers are:

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