Correspondence with Off-Reservation Boarding Schools, October 12, 1909–May 3, 1922

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Correspondence with Off-Reservation Boarding Schools, October 12, 1909–May 3, 1922

1909-1922

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This series consists of correspondence with off-reservation boarding schools. The records include letters received by and copies of letters sent by the Superintendent. Included are a variety of correspondents, including the Superintendents of the Genoa Indian School, Pierre Indian School, Pipestone Indian School, and Wahpeton Indian School. Also included are several applications completed by reservation children for the Wahpeton Indian School. The correspondence concerns the financial affairs and attendance of reservation children at the schools, conditions at the schools, transportation of children to and from school, money credited to them at school, and a quit-claim deed.

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National Archives at Kansas City

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National Archives at Kansas City

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Pierre Indian School

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Pierre Indian School opened in 1891 and continues to operate as the Pierre Indian Learning Center, making it one of the few off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the United States today....

Wahpeton Indian School (N.D.)

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Pipestone Indian Industrial Training School

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Established in 1893, the Pipestone Indian School was built on land taken from the Yankton reservation at the Pipestone Quarry. The Yankton people long contested that loss and won before the Supreme Court in 1926. In 1894 the formation of the Pipestone Indian Training School was authorized on the uninhabited Yankton Pipestone reservation. At that time the majority of Native Americans in Minnesota were Ojibwa and they dominated the school's enrollment throughout its history. The school had grad...