Mount Pleasant Indian School (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) Newspaper clippings collection, 1892, 2003

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Mount Pleasant Indian School (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) Newspaper clippings collection, 1892, 2003

1892, 2003

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

The collection includes newspaper clippings (copies) of topics related to the school's buildings, people, and events, 1892-1913 and 1926-1928, scattered afterwards to 1971, copied in 2003.

1 cubic foot (in 2 boxes)

eng, Latn

Clarke Historical Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7711835

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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....