Correspondence Files, 1909–1925

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Correspondence Files, 1909–1925

1909-1925

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This series consists of correspondence files. The records include letters received and copies of letters sent; notes; reports; vouchers; standard forms; census records; circulars; curricula; school attendance records; lists of students; telegrams; contracts; medical and dental records; land abstracts; birth and death certificates; invoices; receipts; financial records; and affidavits. The records also contain copies of the Omaha Agency annual report, including narrative and statistical sections. Topics covered in the records include Agency buildings and grounds; education; employees; training; off-reservation boarding schools; agriculture; finance; banks; health; Indian land; Indian allotments; land sales; leases; liquor; supplies; public utilities; births, deaths, and marriages; inheritance and succession; and tribal enrollment. The records include correspondence with other Indian agencies, including the Otoe Agency, the Pawnee Agency, the Ponca Agency, the Winnebago Agency, and the Sac and Fox Sanitorium. The records include correspondence with Indian boarding schools, including Carlisle Indian School, Flandreau School, Genoa Indian Industrial School, Hampton Institute, Haskell Institute, Hope School, Phoenix Indian School, Pipestone Indian School, and Sherman Institute. The records include correspondence with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

5 linear feet, 7 linear inches

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668307

National Archives at Kansas City

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Hope Indian Boarding School

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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...

Flandreau Indian Vocational High School (Flandreau, S.D.).

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Carlisle, Pa.)

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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the brainchild of a young lieutenant of the 10th United States (U.S.) Cavalry, Richard Henry Pratt. Lieutenant Pratt had great sympathy for the misery of the Indian, even while he was engaged in subduing the hostile tribes of the West. He became convinced that the solution to the Indian uprisings lay in the education of the Indian rather than in further bloodshed. No public schools allowed Indian students, but Pratt, with the help of influential sympathi...

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...

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...