Records Relating to the Fort Yuma Indian Boarding School, 1913 - 1928

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Records Relating to the Fort Yuma Indian Boarding School, 1913 - 1928

1913 - 1928

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This series contains monthly statistical reports of Indian school enrollment, quarterly boarding school reports, annual school calendars, lists of eligible students for transfer to non-reservation schools, reports on examinations, records of promotions and school attendance registers. Records document names of students, ages, dates of birth, grade, tribe, degree of Indian blood, religion, citizenship status, names of parents or guardians, student attendance, including leaves of absences and desertions, industrial training, and whether students were hired out for work as a part of the outing program. Also included are school censuses for the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation (1913-1923), recording student names, schools attended and notations about students who were not attending school. All children on the reservation between the ages of 5-18 are included. Reports and school work outlines are also included for Cocopah Day School and Yuma Valley Day School (1917-1920).

1 linear foot, 2 linear inches

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National Archives at Riverside

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Fort Yuma Indian School

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The Fort Yuma Indian School was located on the site of a former Civil War fort, which was tranferred to the Quechan Indian Tribe and the Department of the Interior in 1884. It was operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet on behalf of the United States government from 1886 to 1900. Control of the school was officially tranferred from the Department of the Interior to the Sisters of St. Joseph on April 5, 1886, and the sisters began holding classes in the fall of 1886. The first superin...