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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-kc0014-0023-001
Topic
Leaving Genoa
Summary
Form for Victor contains very little information, but notes he attended school in Walthill, Nebraska in addition to Genoa.
Tribe(s)
Omaha
gdp-kc0014-0002-001
Topic
Families, Labor, Training, and Outing, Leaving Genoa
Summary
Form states Lucy only attended lower grades, received training at Genoa as a housekeeper, and has three children attending Genoa.
Tribe(s)
Omaha
gdp-kc0014-0034-001
Topic
Leaving Genoa
Summary
Form notes Josephine graduated from Genoa in 1913 as class valedictorian.
Tribe(s)
Omaha
gdp-kc0014-0013-001
Topic
Labor, Training, and Outing, Leaving Genoa
Summary
Form states Mary owns 80 acres of land and "supports herself by her own efforts" in both house keeping and poultry-raising.
Tribe(s)
Omaha
gdp-kc0019-0029-001
Topic
Families
Summary
School Social Worker Lucile Hamner writes approvingly of the Hensley house, but states Moses should go to school away from the reservation.
Tribe(s)
Winnebago
gdp-kc0005-0018-001
Topic
Leaving Genoa
gdp-kc0002-0142-001
Topic
Health, Disease, and Mortality
gdp-kc0029-0001-001
Topic
School Operations
Summary
Document offers a list of the different schools children from Pine Ridge were attending, noting 2,053 children on the reservation were "of school age."
gdp-kc0001-0206-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Health, Disease, and Mortality
gdp-kc0005-0028-001
Topic
Leaving Genoa
gdp-kc0009-0008-001
Topic
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease, and Mortality
Tribe(s)
Chippewa
gdp-kc0001-0069-001
Topic
Health, Disease, and Mortality