Rapid City Indian School

The Rapid City Indian School was located in Rapid City, South Dakota, and has since been converted into both an asylum and a hospital known as the Sioux San Hospital.[1] The school opened 1898 as part of the federal government's off-reservation boarding school movement for Native Americans and was shut down in 1933 to become a tuberculosis center. Three reservations were close enough to the school to enroll students: the Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Cheyenne River reservations.[8] Towards the 1900s, approximately 650 children went to Rapid City Indian School from Wyoming, Montana, and western South Dakota. The Rapid City school required uniforms like other federal off-reservation schools.

This nonreservation boarding school was opened at Rapid City, S. Dakota, in 1898. For the school year 1929-30 it was converted to a sanatorium school for children with tuberculosis. It was reconverted to a regular boarding school in 1930 but closed in 1934.