Student Case File Papers, 1903–1918

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Student Case File Papers, 1903–1918

1903–1918

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This series consists of student case file papers. The records include applications, report cards, physical examination records, family histories, clearance certificates, progress reports, and federal aid eligibility reports. The records provide information on Indian students from the Rosebud Indian Reservation, including the students' names; schools; birth dates; tribes; degrees of Indian blood; dates and terms of enrollment; and dates and grades entered at the schools. The records also provide information on the students' families, including the names of the mothers and fathers; church preferences; home post offices and railroad points; family wealth, including number of acres owned, annual income from land, other income, and descriptions of family houses; distances of the homes from the nearest public school; and the numbers of brothers and sisters of school age. The records contain physical descriptions of the students, including heights, weights, general physical conditions, and physical disabilities. Other information provided about the students includes descriptions of military and other training, abilities, character traits, plans for the future, and academic grades. The records provide information on students attending off-reservation boarding schools including Haskell Institute, Rapid City Indian School, Genoa Indian Industrial School, Pierre Indian School, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Phoenix Indian School, Santee Mission, and Flandreau School, as well as Indian day schools on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

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National Archives at Kansas City

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Rapid City Indian School

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Rapid City Indian School was a nonreservation boarding school and opened at Rapid City, South 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. ...

Flandreau Indian Vocational High School (Flandreau, S.D.).

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Pierre Indian School

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Pierre Indian School opened in 1891 and continues to operate as the Pierre Indian Learning Center, making it one of the few off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the United States today....

Haskell Indian Industrial Training School

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Haskell Indian Industrial Training School is a public tribal land-grant university in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Founded in 1884 as a residential boarding school for Indigenous American children, the school has developed into a university operated by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs that offers both associate and baccalaureate degrees. The college was founded to serve members of federally recognized Indigenous American tribes in the United States. It is the oldest continually operating fe...