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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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gdp-kc0026-0017-001
Topic
Families, Coming to Genoa
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as no public school available.
Tribe(s)
Oglala Sioux
gdp-kc0026-0043-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, School Operations
Summary
Regarding transportation logistics for John Gray Blanket and other pupils to Genoa.
gdp-kc0026-0002-001
Topic
Families, Coming to Genoa
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "No public school available."
Tribe(s)
Oglala Sioux
gdp-kc0012-0020-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa
Summary
Regarding two young men interested in coming to Genoa.
gdp-kc0017-0010-005
Topic
Coming to Genoa
Summary
Regarding Wilber Decora's recent non-attendance in school, an institution here unnamed.
gdp-kc0036-0164-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "The father of this girl is employed at the Marty Mission School where she has been attending school but has finished grade 8."
Tribe(s)
Santee Sioux
gdp-kc0036-0165-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "This boy lives about one mile from a public school where he is permitted to attend."
gdp-kc0036-0086-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Ponca
gdp-kc0036-0154-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "Unsanitary home conditions."
Tribe(s)
Santee Sioux
gdp-kc0036-0101-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This boy is making his home with his mother's sister and lives about two miles from a public school where it is permitted to attend."
gdp-kc0036-0140-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "The sanitary conditions and moral atmosphere are such that no child can exist in a healthy physically and morally."
Tribe(s)
Santee Sioux
gdp-kc0036-0089-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "Parents are separated and neither supports this child. The guardian lives 2/12 mi. from school."