General Correspondence, 1933–1942

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General Correspondence, 1933–1942

1933-1942

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This series contains correspondence and reports created by Indian Emergency Conservation Work (IECW) and Civilian Conservation Corps, Indian Division (CCC-ID) employees. Correspondents include district supervisors, Claude C. Cornwall and Austin F. Ladd, camp supervisors Forest M. Parker, and Dewayne Kraeger, conservationist William J. Keays, and clerks William C. Straka and L. N. Cary. The bulk of the material was created or received by Claude C. Cornwall. Subjects include enrollee programs, improvement of camp curriculum, first aid instruction, safety, the development of the Indian cattle industry, proposed projects, land utilization, personnel and Indian employment at the Fort Apache, Truxton Canyon, Salt River, Sells, San Carlos and Colorado River Agencies in Arizona and the Sacramento, Mission, Fort Yuma, and Tule River Agencies in California and the Phoenix Indian School in Arizona and the Sherman Indian School in California. Also represented are the Shoshone Indian Agency in Wyoming and the Rocky Boy's Agency in Montana; and projects on the Blackfeet, Crow, Flathead, Fort Belknap and Tongue River (Northern Cheyenne) Reservations in Montana; the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, and the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah.

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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...