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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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Digital Heritage
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "This pupil lives one mile of the Pine Ridge public school but the school will be more than filled this year."Tribe(s)
Sioux
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.Tribe(s)
Sioux
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Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Too great a distance from home."Tribe(s)
Sioux
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "To continue my education."Tribe(s)
Sioux
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "Parents are dead and she has no suitable home on the reservation"Tribe(s)
Sioux
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "To take up home economics."Tribe(s)
Oglala Sioux
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "To learn manual training."Tribe(s)
Oglala Sioux
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "Do not have the funds to go away to some public high school."Tribe(s)
Sioux
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Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Leo C. Decker reports Leo and Mabel Peniska own 35 acres of land in good condition and that children work to help support the family.Tribe(s)
PoncaPeople
Leo Peniska, Mabel Peniska, Andrew, Leo, Clara, Irene, Vera, Lora, Larma, Paul, Mark, Elwood, Leo C. Decker
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Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Leo C. Decker reports Mary owns 20 acres of land and has a large garden.Tribe(s)
Santee
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Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
Leo C. Decker reports Harry and Mabel Walker own 80 acres of land, which Mabel inherited, and cultivate 60 acres of it.Tribe(s)
Santee
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Families, Health, Disease and MortalitySummary
School Social Worker Lucile Hamner discusses Marie's mother's relationship with Oliver Lincoln.Tribe(s)
Sac and Fox