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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-kc0036-0076-001
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 can attend. Parents are citizen Indians."
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0036-0056-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This pupil is fatherless and mother has abandoned her and the grandfather cannot support her."
Tribe(s)
Ponca
gdp-kc0036-0034-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "This child lives five miles from the nearest school teaching the 9th grade."
Tribe(s)
Ponca
gdp-kc0036-0057-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Family have no homes and move about."
Tribe(s)
Ponca
gdp-kc0036-0035-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This child lives 5 miles from a public school."
Tribe(s)
Ponca
gdp-kc0036-0058-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Family have no lands and live with an aged grandfather who is helpless and blind. Home conditions are poor. Public school 2 1/2 miles."
Tribe(s)
Ponca
gdp-kc0001-0001-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "Need of vocational training"
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0036-0059-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Family have no lands and live with an aged grandfather who is helpless and blind. Home conditions are poor. Public school 2 1/2 miles."
Tribe(s)
Ponca
gdp-kc0036-0047-001
Topic
Families
Summary
Regarding an inquiry about enrollment for two sibling brothers, ages 7 and 5.
gdp-kc0036-0088-001
Topic
Families
Summary
Regarding an inquiry on space availability at Genoa for three male siblings.
Tribe(s)
Ponca
gdp-kc0037-0001-001
Topic
School Operations, Families
Summary
Regarding Grace Bonser Soedt's son not having enough Indian blood to enter any Indian school.
gdp-kc0037-0002-001
Topic
Families, School Operations
Summary
Regarding the supervisor not reccommending that Mrs. L.O. Haukaas's daughter return home to visit during the school year.