Rehabilitation Ledgers and Related Correspondence, 1937–1959

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Rehabilitation Ledgers and Related Correspondence, 1937–1959

1937-1959

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This series is comprised of rehabilitation fund ledgers and related correspondence for the Pipestone Communities. The ledgers were used to control the repayment of loans and grants made by the program for a variety of needs including construction of homes and farm buildings, planting seedlings, and repairs. Correspondence consists of letters received from and copies of letters sent to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, November 1958 through March 1959, by the school superintendent. Included in this correspondence is a list of outstanding debts dated November 1958. Ledger entries note the date, name of the individual borrowing funds, the amount borrowed, repayments made, and the purpose for which funds were borrowed. On some ledger sheets the word "loan" has been crossed out and replaced with the word "grant."

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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...