Relief Correspondence, 1935–1949

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Relief Correspondence, 1935–1949

1935-1949

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/30529266

This series consists of relief correspondence. The records include letters received and copies of letters sent; affidavits; lists; memorandums; applications for relief; reports; forms; circulars; newsletters; notes; and bulletins. The correspondents include the agency social worker; officials from county relief offices; social workers and state welfare officials; and officials from Pipestone Indian School and other off-reservation boarding schools. Topics covered in the records include surplus commodities; aid for dependent children; families on the Red Lake Indian Reservation; welfare; Indian dance; employment; old age assistance; staff meetings; trespass; expenditures; and work projects.

5 linear inches

eng, Latn

National Archives at Kansas City

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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...