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Russian Orthodox priests and monks were among the first Christian missionaries to arrive in Alaska in the 1700s. In the years that followed, representatives from a dozen or more denominations served as educators as well as spiritual leaders, and their flocks grew in number across the territory.
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Tanana Mission: Mission of Our Savior
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The Tanana Indians' contact with Western missionaries initially came from Canada through the Church of England.
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Ivan Veniaminov
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In the Russian Alaska of the early 1800s, the Native people and their cultures were suffering at the hands of foreign fur traders and hunters.
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Rev. Sheldon Jackson
(2 pages)
In 1884, 12 years after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia, a Presbyterian minister named Sheldon Jackson offered himself and was selected as Alaska's General Agent of Education.
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The Moveable Church: St. Joseph's of Fairbanks (SLIDESHOW)
Fairbanks was a frontier town when a Jesuit priest named Rev. Francis M. Monroe decided to build a church and hospital.
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