Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1793 - 1999. Copies of Letters Sent
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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. ...
Chilocco Indian Agricultural School
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The Chilocco Indian School was a non-reservation boarding school established by the Office of Indian Affairs for the vocational education of Indian children. In operation for nearly a century (1884-1980), the school drew students from over 40 tribes. Enrollment ranged from slightly over 100 during the first year to well over 1,000 in 1931. It was closed in June 1980 by congressional mandate. Land for use of the school was set aside by President James A. Garfield in an Executive Order of July ...
Haskell Indian Industrial Training School
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Haskell Indian Industrial Training School is a public tribal land-grant university in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Founded in 1884 as a residential boarding school for Indigenous American children, the school has developed into a university operated by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs that offers both associate and baccalaureate degrees. The college was founded to serve members of federally recognized Indigenous American tribes in the United States. It is the oldest continually operating fe...
St. Joseph's Indian School (Chamberlain, S.D.)
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Pierre Indian School
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Pierre Indian School opened in 1891 and continues to operate as the Pierre Indian Learning Center, making it one of the few off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the United States today....
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...
Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942
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Pawnee Bill was a Wild West show impresario and late contemporary of Buffalo Bill Cody, with whom he was in partnership between 1908 and 1913. From the description of Pawnee Bill letter, 1931. (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum). WorldCat record id: 61257714 Gordon W. Lillie (1860-1942) was born in Illinois and worked as an interpreter and schoolteacher at the Pawnee Indian Agency in what is now Oklahoma, starting in 1878. He later worked as an interpreter for th...
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890
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Sitting Bull, also known as Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan, was a Native American shaman and leader of the Hunpapa Sioux. He was born in 1831 in South Dakota. He fought against the Crow Indians and was wounded in battle on several occasions. Sitting Bull greatly opposed the encroachment of the white men. He led Sioux and Cheyenne warriors against U.S. soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the battle of Little Bighorn. After the battle, in which many were killed, Sitting Bull le...
