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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-kc0036-0137-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This family at present lives in Wagner, SD, where the children are permitted to attend school. The parents are unable to give the children the proper care."
Tribe(s)
Santee Sioux
gdp-kc0036-0085-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Ponca
gdp-kc0036-0153-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "No fixed habitation."
gdp-kc0036-0100-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "this boy lives about three miles from a public school where he is permitted to attend. His parents are citizen Indians."
Tribe(s)
Santee Sioux
gdp-kc0036-0139-001
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-kc0036-0086-001
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."
gdp-kc0036-0102-001
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-kc0036-0077-001
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. Parents are citizen Indians."
Tribe(s)
Ponca