Accounts Payable Voucher Files, 1918–1932

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Accounts Payable Voucher Files, 1918–1932

1918-1932

This series contains records relating to payment of goods and services 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 records primarily consist of public vouchers for purchases and services other than personnel and supporting records, but also some schedules of collections, schedules of services, money and special deposits, and payroll of employees.

5 linear feet, 3 linear inches

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668427

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....