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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-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-kc0002-0308-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Because I wish to go on with my schooling."
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-kc0002-0310-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
gdp-kc0002-0343-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0311-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "To finish schooling."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0273-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0247-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "I recommend this boy be accepted for enrollment."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0274-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Joe is unusually large for this age and did not get along so very well at the public school at Martin. He attended the Oglala Boarding School during the present school year."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0249-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0002-0275-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "My parents cannot afford to pay my way back to Flandreare."
Tribe(s)
Sioux