Building Construction Dossiers, 1914–1917

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Building Construction Dossiers, 1914–1917

1914-1917

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This series documents the construction of four buildings at the Pipestone Indian School and Birch Cooley Day School. Records for each project consist of building plans, drawings, and specifications; abstracts of proposed projects; advertisements for bids; contracts for material and labor; memorandum vouchers for payments to contractors; and related correspondence between suppliers, contractors and officials of the Office of Indian Affairs.

5 linear inches

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668547

National Archives at Kansas City

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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...