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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-ok0001-0061-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0024-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Step Mother does not exercise controll. Too old and Decrepit."
Tribe(s)
Arapaho
gdp-ok0001-0088-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
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
gdp-ok0001-0031-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0089-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Home life is such that the boy cannot attend public school to advantage."
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0032-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0034-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment, but notes that the application was "changed on acc't of abolishment of Carlisle."
Tribe(s)
Arapaho
gdp-ok0001-0039-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Parents unable to provide for her care in attendance at public school. School two miles distant from home."
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne, Arapaho
gdp-ok0001-0041-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Parents unable to properly provide for continuation in public school. School two miles from home."
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne, Arapaho
gdp-ok0001-0044-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Parents are not financially able to continue Martha in public school. She has learned little in the way of domestic matters."
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0047-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families
Summary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Tribe(s)
Cheyenne
gdp-ok0001-0118-001
Topic
Student Finances, Leaving Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Regarding requests from James Howling Crane and Armstrong Spotted Horse for funds to travel home.