Sherman Indian Museum collection
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Sisquoc, Lorene
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Lorene Sisquoc (Fort Sill Apache-Mountain Cahuilla) is a curator, weaver, and educator based in Riverside, California. Curator of the Sherman Indian Museum since 1991, Sisquoc has taught basket-making and Native Plant Uses and Material Culture/Traditions at the Sherman Indian High School and throughout Southern California for many years. She co-founded the organizations Mother Earth Clan Cultural Programs and Southern California Indian Basket Weavers Organization, and sits on the board of direct...
Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.)
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The Sherman Institute was established in 1900, as a successor to the Perris Indian School (Perris, Calif.), after the water supply to the previous school was deemed insufficient. By 1901 a site in the city of Riverside was selected, at the corner of Magnolia Avenue and Jackson Street. On July 19, 1901, the cornerstone was laid for the new school building of Sherman Institute, and the school officially opened on September 9, 1902. The Perris Indian School remained in operation until December 1904...
Perris Indian School
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The Perris Indian School was established in 1892 in Perris, Calif. by the Office of Indian Affairs. It was the first residential school established in Southern California, established in order to assimilate Indigenous peoples into the mainstream society. The student population was primarily from California Indian tribes, but there were also eight Pima students. Students' ages ranged from 5 years old to in their early 20s. In 1897, the school's superintendant determined that the water supply at t...
Sherman Indian Museum
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The Sherman Indian Museum collection documents the history of the Perris Indian School, Sherman Institute, and Sherman Indian High School as well as the Native American experience in the US and within government-run American Indian boarding schools. Collection highlights include registration and superintendent ledgers, student rosters and yearbooks, curriculum and administrative records, school bulletins, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks....
