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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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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
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
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
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Coming to Genoa, FamiliesSummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Home life is such that the boy cannot attend public school to advantage."Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment, but notes that the application was "changed on acc't of abolishment of Carlisle."Tribe(s)
Arapaho
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Parents unable to provide for her care in attendance at public school. School two miles distant from home."
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Student Finances, FamiliesSummary
Regarding an enclosed check payable to a student.
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Leaving Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Superintendent recommendation for William Drunkard to return home because his grandfather is sick.
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Student Finances, Leaving Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Regarding requests from James Howling Crane and Armstrong Spotted Horse for funds to travel home.
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Student Finances, Families, Leaving GenoaSummary
Regarding enclosed check payable to student May Birdshead.
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Families, Leaving GenoaSummary
Regarding students' departure and travel home.
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Student Finances, Families, Leaving GenoaSummary
Regarding funds for vacation arrangements for students Jeanette and Minnie Riggs.