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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.
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Coming to Genoa, Leaving GenoaSummary
Regarding Celia Dunham's desire for her niece Orcelia Stephenson to return to Genoa.
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment, but notes that the application was "changed on acc't of abolishment of Carlisle."Tribe(s)
Arapaho
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Parents unable to provide for her care in attendance at public school. School two miles distant from home."
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Parents unable to properly provide for continuation in public school. School two miles from home."
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Parents are not financially able to continue Martha in public school. She has learned little in the way of domestic matters."Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
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Coming to Genoa, FamiliesSummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Not convenient to public school. State laws permit enrollment of Indians in public school."Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
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Coming to Genoa, FamiliesSummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Step Mother does not exercise controll. Too old and Decrepit."Tribe(s)
Arapaho
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "The boy's mother died recently and the father is unable to maintain a home to properly care for his children while attending public school."Tribe(s)
Cheyenne