Education Subject Correspondence Files, 1917–1953

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Education Subject Correspondence Files, 1917–1953

1917-1953

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7551448

This series consists of educational subject correspondence files. The records include letters received and copies of letters sent; memorandums; reports; outlines; plans; curricula; tables; diagrams; notes; forms; building plans; regulations; maps; form letters; surveys; and pamphlets and other publications. The correspondents include the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; other Bureau of Indian Affairs officials; private and public schools; mission schools; colleges and universities; and individuals. The records also include correspondence from officials at Flandreau School and Agency, Haskell Institute, Pierre Indian School, Pipestone Indian School, and Wahpeton Indian School. The records include applications for admission to off-reservation boarding schools; applications for public school tuition; bidding documents; estimates of expenses; budgets; circulars; educational loan agreements; administrative orders; lists of Indian students; purchase orders and requisitions; and copies of laws and legislative acts related to education. Topics covered in the records include 4-H Clubs; school administration; school employees; Indian day schools; finance; school attendance; health; nursing education; religious education; equipment and supplies; clothing; agricultural education; boarding homes for Indian students attending public schools; claims; and Indian families with school children.

2 linear feet, 8 linear inches

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11667499

National Archives at Kansas City

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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....

Wahpeton Indian School (N.D.)

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Pipestone Indian Industrial Training School

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Established in 1893, the Pipestone Indian School was built on land taken from the Yankton reservation at the Pipestone Quarry. The Yankton people long contested that loss and won before the Supreme Court in 1926. In 1894 the formation of the Pipestone Indian Training School was authorized on the uninhabited Yankton Pipestone reservation. At that time the majority of Native Americans in Minnesota were Ojibwa and they dominated the school's enrollment throughout its history. The school had grad...

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...