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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-kc0036-0125-001
Topic
Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Regarding the request for a guardian's permission to remove a student's tonsils.
gdp-kc0036-0125-003
Topic
Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Summary
Regarding the request for a guardian's permission to remove a student's tonsils.
gdp-kc0036-0134-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families
Summary
Regarding enclosed enrollment blanks for two students and the recommendation that they be accepted to and enrolled in Genoa.
gdp-kc0001-0278-001
Topic
Families
Summary
Regarding the enclosed letter from Alex White Man's father.
gdp-kc0013-0118-001
Topic
Families, Leaving Genoa
Summary
Regarding B. J. Young's trouble with his child or dependent, unnamed here, after he ran away from Genoa, and request to "Mr. Sherrie" to do something to help him with the boy.
gdp-kc0017-0010-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families
Summary
Regarding Wilber Decora's potential enrollment at Genoa.
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0019-0079-001
Topic
Families
Summary
School Social Worker Lucile Hamner reports on the family, home, and home activities of Orville White Eagle, age 12.
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0019-0055-001
Topic
Families
Summary
School Social Worker Lucile Hamner reports on the family of Minnie Old Bear, age 12, and mentions Minnie's siblings are Fannie, Harry and Max.
Tribe(s)
Sac and Fox
gdp-kc0019-0091-001
Topic
Families
Summary
School Social Worker Lucile Hamner reports on the family of Leo Arrow, mentioning Leo was sent home when Genoa discontinued the lower grades and lives with his grandmother, Mrs. Anna Arrow.
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0019-0069-001
Topic
Families
Summary
School Social Worker Lucile Hamner reports on the family of Ernest Walker, age 16.
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0019-0080-001
Topic
Families
Summary
School Social Worker Lucile Hamner reports on the family of Loraine Miller, age 14, noting that her parent are deceased.
Tribe(s)
Sioux
gdp-kc0019-0056-001
Topic
Families
Summary
School Social Worker Lucile Hamner reports on the family and home life of Harry Old Bear, age 15. Hamner states that all of the information was obtained by the agency since no one was home during Hamner's visit.
Tribe(s)
Sac and Fox