Mount Pleasant Indian School (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) Collection, 1865, 2003

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Mount Pleasant Indian School (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) Collection, 1865, 2003

1865, 2003

https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/ehll--mountpleasantindianschoolcollection

The collection consists almost entirely of photocopied newspaper clippings, notes, primary and secondary source materials, and reprints of photographs. The Clarke does not hold copyright for the secondary source material and photographs. Most of the primary source material was copied from the National Archives. Other materials come from the Clarke’s collections and various published sources, while the photographs were copied from originals in the Cumberland County Historical Society (Pennsylvania). Some notes by Jennifer Wood are included.

.5 cubic feet (in 1 box)

eng, Latn

Clarke Historical Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7662800

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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....