Collection, 1890,1917.

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Collection, 1890,1917.

1890 - 1917

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Collection of materials (copies) of 15 Native Americans who attended and/or worked at both the Mount Pleasant and the Carlisle Indian schools. Materials for each person may include: letters, student record cards, reports, and enrollment applications. The students and the dates of their materials are as follows: Sarah Williams Wausakaka, 1892,1917; Frank Teeple, 1900, 1907; Phil[ip] Gruett, 1913; Mary Jane Silas, 1894; Henry Shawbush, 1908,1915; Julia Edwards, 1894; Mary (May) L. Jackson, 1894,1912; Daniel Jackson, 1894,1910; Veronica Holliday, 1891,1907; Minnie Yandell LeSieur, 1894,1911; Susie McDougall, 1895,1914; Samuel Gruett, 1890, 1913; James Flannery, 1895; Solomon Collins, 1893,1913; and Estelle (Stella) Bradley, 1909,1915. The materials were copied from the collections of the U.S. Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.), which are housed by the National Archives and Records Administration.

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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....

Gruett, Philip.

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Phillip Gruett was an early Native American settler in Isabella County, arriving with his family as a child in the 1850s. He attended Lutheran schools in Michigan and Indiana and was fluent in English, German, and Ojibwe. Gruett made his living variously as a merchant, farmer, land dealer, and interpreter/consultant for the government Indian agency, sometimes also serving as an informal advocate for his Native American neighbors. From the description of Gruett manuscript, 1868-1872. ...

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...