Seven Years Teaching on the Klamath River 1929 - 1936

Minerva Starritt received her degree in education and art from Humboldt State University in 1929. For the next seven years she taught in one and two-room schools in remote mountain communities along the lower Klamath River, mixing art and health lessons in with basic reading and math, treating minor ailments, and organizing the baseball team. Most of her students were Yurok or Karuk. Fascinated by her experiences of Native culture, Minerva next took her teaching skills to Native villages in Alaska, as related in her following book, Six Years of Alaskan Adventures. Read more