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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-dc0020-0197-001
Topic
Labor, Training, and Outing, School Operations
Summary
Regarding statistical statements for the school, including value of school plant and average attendance of students.
gdp-dc0020-0196-001
Topic
Health, Disease, and Mortality, School Operations
Summary
Regarding a trial in Washington for the fate of the Genoa school.
gdp-dc0020-0195-001
Topic
Education and Curriculum, Labor, Training, and Outing, School Operations
Summary
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.
gdp-dc0020-0194-001
Topic
Families, Leaving Genoa, School Operations
Summary
Regarding children who were returned to their home when the first three grades were abolished.
gdp-dc0020-0193-001
Topic
Education and Curriculum, School Operations
Summary
Regarding the elimination of the first three grades at the school and filling vacant positions in music and art.
gdp-dc0020-0192-001
Topic
Education and Curriculum, School Operations
Summary
Regarding dropping the first three grades at Genoa.
gdp-dc0020-0191-001
Topic
Education and Curriculum, School Operations
Summary
Regarding the closing of boarding schools in favor of local schools; organizing the acceptance of Genoa pupils into schools on tuition basis.
gdp-dc0020-0190-001
Topic
Health, Disease, and Mortality, School Operations
Summary
Regarding caring for the "neediest" in the dormitory.
gdp-dc0020-0189-001
Topic
Leaving Genoa, School Operations
Summary
Regarding orphans returned from the Santee Reservation.
gdp-dc0020-0188-001
Topic
School Operations
Summary
Regarding records of pupils in grades 1, 2, and 3 with reason for enrollment and how many miles away they live from a public school at home.
gdp-dc0020-0187-001
Topic
School Operations
Summary
Regarding the Bishop's opposition to closing the school in order to maintain trust and stop "calamity."
gdp-dc0020-0186-001
Topic
School Operations
Summary
Regarding multiple accounts of opposition against the closure of the school.