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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. 

gdp-kc0005-0031-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0005-0035-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Sioux, Cheyenne
gdp-kc0002-0327-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "This pupil lives too far from a public school."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0336-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "To finish my education."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0337-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "no permanent home near any school."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0341-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This boy has no home and should continue his education."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0342-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "To take up vocational work."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0343-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0300-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Do not have available funds to attend a public High School."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0345-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "To study a trade."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0307-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Am not very bright in studies and wish to learn a trade and take up athletics in which I am very good."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0005-0012-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Finish public school grade. Should continue work at Genoa."
Tribe(s)
Sioux