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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, FamiliesSummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "public school too crowded to accommodate, mother unable to pay tuition, and home environment very bad."Tribe(s)
Shoshone
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Mother is dead, father remarried, and home conditions not satisfactory."Tribe(s)
Shoshone
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Mother of this girl can not control her - best that she be away from local environments."Tribe(s)
Shoshone
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Shoshone
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
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Families, Leaving GenoaSummary
Regarding student Joseph Hamlin, who has been dropped from the school roll.
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Families, Coming to GenoaSummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Omaha
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "This boy lives about one mile from a public school where he is permitted to attend."
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This child lives 5 miles from a school teaching the grade she is in. Parents are citizen Indians."Tribe(s)
Ponca
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Ponca
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "overcrowded home conditions."Tribe(s)
Ponca
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Ponca