Records Relating to Education and Schools, 1949–1952

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Records Relating to Education and Schools, 1949–1952

1949-1952

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This series consists of records relating to education and schools. The records include letters received and copies of letters sent; telegrams; reports; vouchers; bidding documents; a 1952 management improvement schedule for Flandreau Indian School; and lists of graduates and education field agents. The records include Congressional bills, and transcripts of hearings before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs regarding issues at Carlisle Indian School in 1914. The records include publications of the Office of Indian Affairs Education Division; tables and statistics related to enrollment and attendance of Indian students in 1944; and tables comparing scores on examinations from 1945-1950. The records contain copies of the "Haskell Indian Leader" published by Haskell Institute in 1951. Applications and acceptance letters for students attending Flandreau School in 1949-1950 are included, as well as letters of recommendation for graduation from Haskell Institute in 1939. Topics covered in the records include school enrollment; inspections; property; complaints and claims; individual Indian students; scholarships at Augsburg College and Gustavus Adolphus College; Indian students attending the School of Practical Nursing in Lawton, OK; Indian student attendance at boarding schools, public schools, and Indian day schools; education of children with disabilities; and teachers at Indian schools.

1 linear foot, 5 linear inches

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11667497

National Archives at Kansas City

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

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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...