Application for Enrollment at Rapid City for Elizabeth Dixon, 2 June 1932

Government records show that individuals from these tribal nations attended the U.S. Indian Industrial School at Genoa, Nebraska: Arapaho, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Cree, Crow, Flathead, Kickapoo, Kootenai, Mohawk, Oglala Sioux, Omaha, Paiute, Pend d'Oreille, Piegan Blackfeet, Ponca, Potawatomi, Rosebud Sioux, Sac and Fox, Santee Sioux, Shawnee, Shoshone, Sisseton Sioux, Standing Rock Sioux, Winnebago, and Yankton Sioux. 

Summary: 
Document gives reason for enrollment as "This pupil lives near the Batesland Public School. However, her father is desperately poor, and has a family of eight children. For this reason I recommend the pupil's enrollment at the Rapid City Indian School."
Description: 

Elizabeth Dixon, age 13, applies to enter grade 8 at Rapid City Indian School. Document lists parents, William and Susan Dixon, as living and three sisters and three brothers attending Oglala Boarding School and Public School.

Identifier: 
gdp-kc0002-0283
Citation: 
Application for Enrollment at Rapid City for Elizabeth Dixon, 2 June 1932; Folder: Dixon, Elizabeth; Box 1153; Case Files of Pine Ridge Students Attending Genoa Indian School, ca. 1913 - ca. 1933; Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, NAID 1154495; Record Group 75; National Archives and Records Administration—Kansas City.