Applications for Enrollment in Indian Schools, 1905–1951

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Applications for Enrollment in Indian Schools, 1905–1951

1905-1951

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This series consists of applications for enrollment in Indian schools. The records are copies of applications from students living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation to attend off-reservation boarding schools, including Bismarck Indian School, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Chilocco Indian School, Flandreau School, Haskell Institute, Pierre Indian School, Pipestone Indian School, Santee Normal Training School, and Wahpeton Indian School. The bulk of the applications are submitted on standard form 5-192a; some of the applications are submitted on a form titled "Application for Enrollment in a Non-Reservation School." The information provided in each application includes the names and tribes of the student and the parents; the sex and date of birth of the student; the parents' degree of Indian blood, and whether each parent is living or dead; and the student's educational history, including the names of the schools attended, the dates of attendance, the causes of departure, and the grades in which the student was enrolled at each school. Each application also includes a certification from the agency physician; a certification from the Fort Berthold Agency superintendent; and a certification from the Indian school's physician. Some applications also include family health histories and related correspondence.

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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 ...

Bismarck Indian School (N.D.)

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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...