Administrative Subject Files, 1907–1926

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Administrative Subject Files, 1907–1926

1907-1926

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This series contains correspondence, telegrams, memorandums, circulars, pamphlets, reports, maps and forms relating to education, health, law and order, land allotments, grazing leases, irrigation, the development of agriculture and Indian labor and general economic and social conditions among the Quechan and Cocopah Indians living on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation. Of particular interest are the records documenting the 1916 flood of the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona and its effects on the Indians. These records also document issues of smuggling and trading along the international border with Mexico, the development of irrigation in the Imperial Valley of California, and the management of the Fort Yuma Boarding School and its relationship with other boarding schools such at St. Boniface in Banning, California, the Sherman Institute in Riverside, California and the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

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National Archives at Riverside

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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...