Applications for Enrollment at Non-Reservation Indian Schools, 1906–1932

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Applications for Enrollment at Non-Reservation Indian Schools, 1906–1932

1906-1932

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This series includes application forms 5-192a, "Application for Enrollment in a Nonreservation School of a Child Enrolled at an Agency", applications used by individual schools, some correspondence and lists of students attending schools. Each request for enrollment includes parents' names and where parents were living at the time of the application, tribe or band, degree of Indian blood, previous school attended, and dates of attendance. Statements by the Superintendent, agency physician, or other government personnel pertaining to health, economic conditions in the student's home, and training or instructional objectives are also included in some of the applications. Applications were used for students to attend off-reservation government schools, private schools and boarding schools on reservations other than the Papago (now Tohono O'odham) Reservation in Arizona. Schools include the Albuquerque Indian School (1913), Catholic Mission Schools (1912-1917), Chilocco Indian School (1911-1915), Fort Yuma Indian School (1920-1924), Fort Mojave Indian School (1924), Grand Junction Indian School (1908-1910), Haskell Institute (1911-1922), Phoenix Indian School (1906-1927), Santa Fe Indian School (1907-1915), Sherman Institute (1911-1924), Tucson Indian Training School (1911-1933), and the Truxton Canyon Training School (1924-1932).

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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...