Records of Outing Agent Fred Long, 1917–1928

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Records of Outing Agent Fred Long, 1917–1928

1917-1928

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/563532

This series includes lists of students, correspondence, expense receipts, bills, weekly outing reports, individual student reports, schedules, pay tables, reports of labor violations, and memo books from 1917 and 1918 listing students' names and ages. The topics covered include administration of the outing program, individual Indians assigned to particular jobs, and rates of pay and labor issues. Included is a file on firefighters which contains names of Indians assigned to fight fires on the Cleveland and San Bernardino National Forests. Also included are lists of deserters showing names, ages, tribes, physical descriptions, and addresses of Indians who deserted Sherman or their jobs. A file on M. K. Thompson relates to Thompson's inability to pay the students sent to work for him, and some records in a General Correspondence file relate to a criminal complaint filed against Thompson in the Superior Court of California in Calexico, California for failure to pay the students.

5 linear inches

eng, Latn

National Archives at Riverside

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668373

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...