Browse Digital Heritage
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.
Search
Sort
Topic
- (-) Remove School Operations filter School Operations
- Health, Disease, and Mortality (405) Apply Health, Disease, and Mortality filter
- Leaving Genoa (142) Apply Leaving Genoa filter
- Coming to Genoa (121) Apply Coming to Genoa filter
- Labor, Training, and Outing (78) Apply Labor, Training, and Outing filter
- Families (65) Apply Families filter
- Education and Curriculum (58) Apply Education and Curriculum filter
- Student Finances (40) Apply Student Finances filter
- Photographs (33) Apply Photographs filter
- Discipline and Punishment (24) Apply Discipline and Punishment filter
- Student Life (11) Apply Student Life filter
Tribe
- Arapaho (Arapahoe) (1) Apply Arapaho (Arapahoe) filter
- Blackfeet (Blackfoot) (2) Apply Blackfeet (Blackfoot) filter
- Cree (1) Apply Cree filter
- Omaha (18) Apply Omaha filter
- Paiute (Piute) (1) Apply Paiute (Piute) filter
- Ponca (11) Apply Ponca filter
- Sac and Fox (1) Apply Sac and Fox filter
- Shoshone (3) Apply Shoshone filter
- Sioux (2) Apply Sioux filter
- Sioux (Rosebud) (3) Apply Sioux (Rosebud) filter
- Sioux (Santee) (15) Apply Sioux (Santee) filter
- Sioux (Yankton) (9) Apply Sioux (Yankton) filter
- Winnebago (15) Apply Winnebago filter
Format
- Letter (976) Apply Letter filter
- Government Report (77) Apply Government Report filter
- Telegram (57) Apply Telegram filter
- Memorandum (32) Apply Memorandum filter
- Photographic Print (32) Apply Photographic Print filter
- School Materials (15) Apply School Materials filter
- Note (14) Apply Note filter
- Contract (6) Apply Contract filter
- Legal Document (5) Apply Legal Document filter
- Receipt (5) Apply Receipt filter
- Contract Proposal (4) Apply Contract Proposal filter
- List of Names (4) Apply List of Names filter
- Legislative Document (3) Apply Legislative Document filter
Digital Heritage
Topic
School OperationsSummary
Regarding the request to retain the school.
Digital Heritage
Topic
School OperationsSummary
Regarding asking to find a reason to keep the Genoa school open.
Digital Heritage
Topic
Education and Curriculum, Labor, Training, and Outing, School OperationsSummary
Regarding the additions to girls' home economics and the consideration of adding more trade education for boys including carpentry, painting, masonry, plumbing and sheet metal working, and auto and aviation mechanics.
Digital Heritage
Topic
School OperationsSummary
Regarding the request of the Genoa Commercial Club wanting a representative in Washington to keep the school in operation.
Digital Heritage
Topic
Leaving Genoa, School OperationsSummary
Regarding service opportunities for Herman Bogard after the closing of the Genoa School.
Digital Heritage
Topic
School OperationsSummary
Regarding the expectation of support to maintain the school.
Digital Heritage
Topic
Families, Leaving Genoa, School OperationsSummary
Regarding the conditions of a home after accepting orphan children from the school.
Digital Heritage
Topic
Health, Disease, and Mortality, School OperationsSummary
Regarding a trial in Washington for the fate of the Genoa school.
Digital Heritage
Topic
School OperationsSummary
Regarding the request for the continuation of the school due to a large number of pupils without a home outside of the school.
Digital Heritage
Topic
School OperationsSummary
Regarding costs for water supply construction, including a deep well, additions to the power house, and extending the sewer line.
Digital Heritage
Topic
School OperationsSummary
Regarding multiple accounts of opposition against the closure of the school.
Digital Heritage
Topic
School OperationsSummary
Regarding the closing of the school and fighting to keep it open.