Correspondence Received from the Supervisor of Indian Education, 1894–1916

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Correspondence Received from the Supervisor of Indian Education, 1894–1916

1894-1916

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The correspondence is primarily between the Supervisor of Indian Education and the superintendent at Pipestone Indian School. The correspondence consists of letters, memoranda, and circulars, occasionally with copies of replies to the supervisor. There are also letters from or to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the contract physician, and the American Indian Association. The correspondence relate to attendance and enrollment of students, repairs and improvements to school buildings and physical plants, academic instruction and industrial training, student health and welfare, religious and moral education and training, and school organization and staffing.

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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...