School Correspondence, 1896–February 27, 1925

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School Correspondence, 1896–February 27, 1925

1896-1925

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6595673

This series consists of school correspondence. The records include letters received and copies of letters sent, attendance records, and curriculum. The records provide information on Indian students attending off-reservation boarding schools including Carlisle Indian School, Chilocco Indian School, Flandreau School, Genoa Indian School, Haskell Institute, Pierre Indian School, Rapid City Indian School, Santee Normal Training School, and Grand River Boarding School. The records also provide information concerning Indian day schools; their students and teachers; other school employees; equipment and supplies; labor; and wages. The records include correspondence with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11667477

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. ...

Chilocco Indian Agricultural School

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The Chilocco Indian School was a non-reservation boarding school established by the Office of Indian Affairs for the vocational education of Indian children. In operation for nearly a century (1884-1980), the school drew students from over 40 tribes. Enrollment ranged from slightly over 100 during the first year to well over 1,000 in 1931. It was closed in June 1980 by congressional mandate. Land for use of the school was set aside by President James A. Garfield in an Executive Order of July ...

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....

Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Carlisle, Pa.)

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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the brainchild of a young lieutenant of the 10th United States (U.S.) Cavalry, Richard Henry Pratt. Lieutenant Pratt had great sympathy for the misery of the Indian, even while he was engaged in subduing the hostile tribes of the West. He became convinced that the solution to the Indian uprisings lay in the education of the Indian rather than in further bloodshed. No public schools allowed Indian students, but Pratt, with the help of influential sympathi...

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...