Records Related to the Closure of the Mount Pleasant Indian School and Agency, 1933–1934

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Records Related to the Closure of the Mount Pleasant Indian School and Agency, 1933–1934

1933-1934

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This series consists of correspondence, documents, and forms related to the sale of the Mount Pleasant Indian School and Agency to the State of Michigan. Included are employee property lists and in some instances return of property forms. There is an inventory of buildings and property and transfer documents related to the sale. Also included are correspondence and requests from the State of Michigan prior to the transfer regarding number of employees working at Mount Pleasant Indian School and Agency along with the debts owed for various State of Michigan Civilian Works Agency projects.

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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....