Browse Digital Heritage

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. 

Search

Sort

gdp-dc0024-0018-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Leaving Genoa
Summary
Regarding Orcelia Stephenson's desire to return to Genoa from Wisconsin.
gdp-kc0036-0156-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "No fixed habitation."
gdp-kc0036-0067-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "This child lives within reach of a public school and is permitted to attend. The home of the child is very poor and the environment is not good. Wards of the government."
Tribe(s)
Santee Sioux
gdp-kc0036-0068-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "This child lives within reach of a public school and is permitted to attend. The home of the child is very poor and the environment is not good. Wards of the government."
Tribe(s)
Santee Sioux
gdp-ok0001-0047-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0006-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Not convenient to public school. State laws permit enrollment of Indians in public school."
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0048-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0007-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne, Arapaho
gdp-ok0001-0061-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0024-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Step Mother does not exercise controll. Too old and Decrepit."
Tribe(s)
Arapaho
gdp-ok0001-0088-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
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
gdp-ok0001-0031-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne