Correspondence with Field Installations, 1911–1929

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Correspondence with Field Installations, 1911–1929

1911-1929

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This series documents the relationship between the Pipestone Indian School and other field installations. The series consists of letters and telegrams received, copies of letters sent, vouchers, official receipts, requisitions, purchase orders, annual estimates and other records. The correspondents include agencies, schools, hospitals, warehouses and other field installations of the Office of Indian Affairs. The letters chiefly relate to school administration, student health and welfare, and procurement of supplies and equipment. Subject matter varies greatly including school curriculum, admission and enrollment, transfers of students and equipment, transportation, runaways and expulsions, annual estimates and purchases of supplies and equipment and other matters of common interest to the field installations.

1 linear foot, 5 linear inches

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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...