Decimal Correspondence Files, 1949–1971

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Decimal Correspondence Files, 1949–1971

1949-1971

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6094434

This series consists of decimal correspondence files. The files contain correspondence, reports, memoranda, instructions, orders, circulars, endorsements, delegations, telegrams, contracts, and other documents directly related to administration of Bureau of Indian Affairs programs and supervision of agencies, schools, and other field activities under the jurisdiction of the Aberdeen Area Office. Documents within this series cover a wide range of subject areas including Indian education, tribal resource development, Indian services, and trust responsibilities. The following agencies are referenced within this series: Cheyenne River, Crow Creek, Flandreau, Fort Berthold, Great Lakes, Minneapolis Area Office, Menominee, Pierre, Pine Ridge, Pipestone Indian School, Red Lake, Rosebud, Sioux Sanitorium, Sisseton, Standing Rock, Turtle Mountain, Wahpeton Indian School, and Winnebago

26 linear feet, 2 linear inches

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668615

National Archives at Kansas City

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Flandreau Indian Vocational High School (Flandreau, S.D.).

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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...