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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 "Home conditions are unsanitary and parent is unable to support child."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Santee)
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This family at present lives in Wagner, SD, where the children are permitted to attend school. The parents are unable to give the children the proper care."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Santee)
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "The father of this girl is employed at the Marty Mission School where she has been attending school but has finished grade 8."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Santee)
Digital Heritage
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Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as "It is better at the present as we are without funds."Tribe(s)
Sioux
Digital Heritage
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This child lives about 3/4 miles from a public school where it is permitted to attend. The grandmother is taking care of him at the present time but is not financially able to give him proper care."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Yankton)
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This girl was adopted by Mrs. Williams. She lives three miles from a public school and is permitted to attend. She has no money or property held in trust. Her father and mother were unalloyed Indians."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Yankton)
Digital Heritage
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This family lives about one mile from a public school where this boy is permitted to attend."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Yankton)
Digital Heritage
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "To remove it from iniquitous home environments."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Yankton)
Digital Heritage
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives no reason for enrollment.
Digital Heritage
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Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This boy lives with his mother in Platt, South Dakota, where he is permitted to attend public school. The father has left his family and the mother is not able to give the boy proper attention."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Yankton)
Digital Heritage
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This boy is making his home with his mother's sister and lives about two miles from a public school where it is permitted to attend."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Yankton)
Digital Heritage
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Document gives reason for enrollment as, "This boy is making his home with his mother's sister and lives about two miles from a public school where it is permitted to attend."Tribe(s)
Sioux (Yankton)