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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-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."
gdp-kc0036-0018-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This child lives one mile from a public school and the state laws permit it to attend. The home life is not good."
gdp-kc0020-0005-001
gdp-kc0020-0100-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "It is too far to send them to the public school."
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0020-0090-001
Topic
Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Complete term."
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0020-0091-001
Topic
Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Complete term."
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0020-0097-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Want to learn a trade."
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0020-0098-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Want to learn a trade."
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0020-0099-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "It is too far to send them to the public school."
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0013-0081-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Take advantage of oppertunity."
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0013-0061-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0013-0090-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Vocational Training."
Tribe(s)
Winnebago