Records Relating to Land, 1949–1953

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Records Relating to Land, 1949–1953

1949-1953

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/60471692

This series consists of records relating to land. The records include letters received and copies of letters sent, and memorandums. The correspondents include land field agents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and officials from the Resettlement Administration. The records include reports; land appraisals; plats and maps; blueprints; plans; graphs; circulars; civil court records; questionnaires; estimates; and photographs. Topics covered in the records include offers to sell land to the U.S.; acquisitions of Indian land; swamp lands; land use and development projects; and related law suits. The bulk of the records pertain to land overseen by the Menominee Agency and Pipestone Indian School; land on the Grand Portage Reservation; and land at the Upper and Lower Sioux Communities, and the Stockbridge and Munsee Community.

2 linear feet

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668619

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...