Central Classified Files, 1928–1956

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Central Classified Files, 1928–1956

1928-1956

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16501132

This series contains correspondence, reports, telegrams, purchase orders, bids for services, and student records. Contained in this series are records relating to the operation and attendance of students in schools on the Hopi Indian Reservation in Arizona, including public schools and Indian Affairs operated schools. These records include lists of students attending schools, curricula, yearbooks and newsletters. Also included is correspondence with officials at non-reservation boarding schools such as the Phoenix Indian School, the Sherman Institute and others. Of particular note are records relating to the silversmith course and an auto mechanics course developed for returning WWII veterans under the auspices of Public Law 78-346, informally known as the G.I. Bill. Also of note are records relating to the colonization of the Colorado River Indian Reservation by Hopi and Navajo Indians; the building of roads across the Hopi Indian reservation; and records documenting extension work, such as farming and the raising of livestock.

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National Archives at Riverside

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Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.)

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The Sherman Institute was established in 1900, as a successor to the Perris Indian School (Perris, Calif.), after the water supply to the previous school was deemed insufficient. By 1901 a site in the city of Riverside was selected, at the corner of Magnolia Avenue and Jackson Street. On July 19, 1901, the cornerstone was laid for the new school building of Sherman Institute, and the school officially opened on September 9, 1902. The Perris Indian School remained in operation until December 1904...