Social Welfare Student Information Cards, ca. 1938–ca. 1950

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Social Welfare Student Information Cards, ca. 1938–ca. 1950

ca. 1938-ca. 1950

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This series consists of undated mimeographed and handwritten cards used to record information on students entering the Pipestone Indian School upon recommendation of social welfare boards. Each card contains the name, sex, and date of birth of the entering student, reason for enrollment, name of parent or guardian, home address, agency and tribal affiliations, degree of Indian blood, social agency recommending admittance, and religious preference.

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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...