Correspondence with Members of Congress, 1920–1928

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Correspondence with Members of Congress, 1920–1928

1920-1928

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This series consists of letters received and copies of letters sent to members of Congress from the superintendent of the Pipestone Indian School. The correspondence concerns pending Indian legislation, appropriations for the Office of Indian Affairs and the Pipestone Indian School, and visits by members of the Minnesota Congressional Delegation to the Pipestone and Morton, Minnesota, Indian communities.

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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...