Correspondence with Off-Reservation Indian Schools and Related Records, October 7, 1922–1954

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Correspondence with Off-Reservation Indian Schools and Related Records, October 7, 1922–1954

1922-1954

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5708162

This series consists of correspondence with off-reservation Indian schools and related records. The correspondents include the Superintendent and educational field agent, as well as Indian students, their parents, teachers, social workers and other official and unofficial interested parties. A majority of the letters are received and sent by Flandreau Indian School, Pipestone Indian School, and Wahpeton Indian School. The records also include lists, telegrams, forms, pamphlets, summaries, reports, memorandums, newspaper clippings, advertisements, manuals, and schedules. The records include general correspondence regarding students and administration. The records include recommendations for educational prospects for individual Indian children; course descriptions; and requests for applications and allotment of funds. The records also include lists of children accepted for enrollment at various schools, including name, age, degree of Indian blood, address, birthdate, grade level, and schools attended. Other topics covered in the records include social survey reports, summer educational opportunities, student attendance, eligibility and availability of student aid, and student transportation.

3 linear feet, 4 linear inches

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668643

National Archives at Kansas City

Related Entities

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

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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...