School Census of Indian Children, 1927–1927

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School Census of Indian Children, 1927–1927

1927

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/156278357

This series consists of an Annual School Census Report (5-255a), conducted to determine which schools, either Indian or Public, Indian children attended. Included is some correspondence between school officials attempting to determine which Indian children attended their school. The census recorded the child's Name, Sex, Age, Grade, Tribe and Degree of Blood, Ward or Non-Ward Status, Distance of Child's Home from Public School, Name of Parent, Name of School Child is Attending, Length of School Term, Grades Taught, Reason for Non attendance, and Date of Transfer to Other School.

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National Archives at Chicago

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National Archives at Chicago

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Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial School

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Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, was established by an act of the United States Congress in 1891. This provided funding for creation of an education system of off-reservation boarding schools and vocational training centers to educate Native American children. It was extending a model developed and practiced first at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which opened in 1879 and was directed by Richard Henry Pratt, an Army officer....