Payroll Records, 1906–1934

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Payroll Records, 1906–1934

1906-1934

This series contains records of payroll expenditures by the Mount Pleasant Indian School and Agency, which was located in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and primarily worked with the Ojibwa (or Chippewa) of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River on the Isabella Reservation. The first subseries is is comprised of Cash Payroll of Employee form N-330, and contains a list of all employees paid during that pay period, including position, time employed, rate of pay, amount pay, and remarks. The second subseries is comprised of the Record of Positions and Salaries form, which includes the name, position, race (Indian or white), and line entries for each month of employment containing rate of pay or salary, amount paid, deductions and other related information.

1 linear foot, 5 linear inches

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668423

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....