Applications for Enrollment in Non reservation Schools, 1927–1927

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Applications for Enrollment in Non reservation Schools, 1927–1927

1927

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This series consists of application forms 5-192a, "Application for Enrollment in a Non reservation School of a Child Enrolled at an Agency." 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 personnel pertaining to health, economic conditions in the student's home, and training or instructional objectives are also included in some of the applications. These applications were made to attend the Mount Pleasant School in Michigan. Included are un-dated handwritten lists of student names, ages, and the schools they attended.

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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....