Thirty-two years in the United States Indian Service, 192u.

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Thirty-two years in the United States Indian Service, 192u [after 1926], pp. 36-41 of a typed history (photocopy) from the Robb Moore Collection in the Western History Collection at the University of Okla. The pages describe Padgett's years as Superintendent of the U.S. Indian School in Mount Pleasant (Mich.), the students, their curriculum, sports, and language; the costs, funding, farms, and boarding schools of the systems; the Indians of Mich., their assimilation into white culture, and basket making abilities and tradition; and travel in Mich.

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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....

Padgett, O.

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Padgett served 32 years in the U.S. Indian Service. He served as the Superintendent of the U.S. Indian School in Mount Pleasant, from Aug. 1924 to May 1926. Prior to Aug. 1924, Padgett served as the Superintendent at the Pipestone School in Minn. Beginning in May 1926, he served as the Day School Inspector of the Consolidated Chippewa Agency in Cass Lake (Minn.). (Information is from the collection.). From the description of Thirty-two years in the United States Indian Service, 192u....