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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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Coming to Genoa, Families, Leaving GenoaSummary
Regarding the enclosed letter, a vacation application, and the unknown whereabouts of the mother of the student who wrote the letter.
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Student FinancesSummary
Regarding an enclosed letter from David Last Bear requesting that Alex Iron Whiteman be permitted to take over an allotment of land.
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Leaving GenoaSummary
Announcement includes a listing of activities, dates, and times.
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Leaving GenoaSummary
Regarding Mr. Sherry's expressed inability to help B. J. Young's child or dependent by relocating him to another school after running away from Genoa.
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Families, Leaving GenoaSummary
Regarding Fern Vivier's request for a summer vacation.
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Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Regarding David Last Bear's request that Alex Iron White Man return from Carlisle to Pine Ridge to take care of an allotment of land that David Last Bear and his wife are too old and unhealthy to adequately take care of.
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Leaving GenoaSummary
Graduation program for Genoa that lists speakers in order of their appearance as well as the students who were graduating.People
Rev. C. F. Sandahl, Pflock, Will H. Maupin, Barnard, Sam B. Davis, Rev. C. E. Ruch, Clifford L. Baker, Garfield G. Quickbear, Thomas Carson Walker, Jr., Theodore A. Robertson, Thomas Berris Walker, Eva E. Iyott, Henrietta Racine, Nora Margaret Grant, Elma Louise Barada, Louise Berry Child, Irene S. Big Bear, Cecile Anona Pepion, Grace Louise Pepion, Dorothy Marie Miller, Ella Marietta Knudsen, Pansy Isabel Blacksmith, Lydia Fedelia Red Leaf, Louise Orvine Rice Hill, Mathilda Veronica Longee, Julia Elaine Robinson, Irene Marilyn Racine, Ramona Marie Fielder, Bertha Louise Grant, Evangeline Jones, Elizabeth Mad Plume, Rose Cleo P. Seed, Julia Myrtle Spitto, Alice Arvilla Stacy, Vivian Beryl Neiss, Mary Isabel Cline, Grace Mary LaBeau, Lily Agnes McKee, Mary Kawkeka, Scott Lee Whipple, William Grey Fox, John Crosby, Jr., James A. Nash, Arthur Hans, George Soldier, Albert Green Deer, Marion Joseph Walker
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Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Regarding the request for a guardian's permission to remove a student's tonsils.
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Families, Health, Disease, and MortalitySummary
Regarding Edna Thomas and her siblings' absence from school while their father is sick, and a request for her and her siblings to return.
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FamiliesSummary
Regarding the enclosed letter from Alex White Man's father.
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School OperationsSummary
Regarding unpaid monies for "sal soda" provided in February 1934.
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School OperationsSummary
Regarding a misunderstanding about statistics on delinquent pupils that occurred on a recent phone conversation.