Correspondence with Off-Reservation Indian Schools and Related Records, October 8, 1910–January 28, 1920

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Correspondence with Off-Reservation Indian Schools and Related Records, October 8, 1910–January 28, 1920

1910-1920

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This series consists of correspondence with off-reservation Indian schools and related records. The records include letters received from and copies of letters sent to Office of Indian Affairs boarding schools located outside the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The superintendent and the day school supervisor are the usual correspondents at Pine Ridge Agency; other correspondents include Indian students, their parents, teachers, and other official and unofficial interested parties. Correspondence with officials at Carlisle Indian School, Genoa Indian Industrial School, and Rapid City Indian School is included. The correspondence mostly concerns Pine Ridge children attending the schools. There are occasional letters dealing with points of educational policy at the school concerned. The related records include students' applications for enrollment, and occasional lists of students.

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National Archives at Kansas City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11668998

National Archives at Kansas City

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Rapid City Indian School

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Rapid City Indian School was a nonreservation boarding school and opened at Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1898. For the school year 1929-30 it was converted to a sanatorium school for children with tuberculosis. It was reconverted to a regular boarding school in 1930 but closed in 1934. ...

Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Carlisle, Pa.)

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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the brainchild of a young lieutenant of the 10th United States (U.S.) Cavalry, Richard Henry Pratt. Lieutenant Pratt had great sympathy for the misery of the Indian, even while he was engaged in subduing the hostile tribes of the West. He became convinced that the solution to the Indian uprisings lay in the education of the Indian rather than in further bloodshed. No public schools allowed Indian students, but Pratt, with the help of influential sympathi...