As one of 20 case studies in education and culture designed to bring to students in professional education and in the social sciences the results of direct observation and participation in educational process in a variety of cultural settings, this book describes the educational process in a residential school for American Indian children in the Yukon Territory of Northwest Canada. The book contains the following headings and subheadings: "The School Community" (Yukon Indians, Twentieth-Century Developments, Matt Matthew's Family: Yukon Territory, The Yukon Indian Agency, Whitehorse and Whitemen, and Origins of the Residential School at Mopass); "The Residential School Operation" (The Plant Facility, School Routines, The Residential School Curriculum, Community Relations, and, Summary of School Operations at Mopass); and, "The Residential School as a Learning Environment" (Adults of the Residential School, The Staff, Teachers, Adult Relationships, Child Relationships, Coping with Adults, Classroom Behavior, Standardized Tests and Their Implications, and, Summary of the School as a Learning Environment). Included are lists of 14 references and 13 recommended readings. (MJB)