U.S. Indian school, Mt. Pleasant : history.

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U.S. Indian school, Mt. Pleasant : history.

1949

Includes a transmittal letter to Mrs. Neil Van de Warker from Field Aid, Jere Charlow.

4 unnumbered leaves ; 29 cm

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 7558594

Library of Michigan

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Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial School

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Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, was established by an act of the United States Congress in 1891. This provided funding for creation of an education system of off-reservation boarding schools and vocational training centers to educate Native American children. It was extending a model developed and practiced first at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which opened in 1879 and was directed by Richard Henry Pratt, an Army officer....