Application for Enrollment at Genoa for Darwin Brunette, 21 June 1932

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. 

Summary: 
Document gives reason for enrollment as "To complete High School."
Description: 

Darwin Brunette, age 18, applies to enter grade 10. His vocational preferences are Baking, Auto Mechanics, and Engineering. His religious preference is Catholic and his interestes are baseball and basketball. Application mentions his father, Ben Brunette, as alive with the occupation of a nightwatchman. His mother is Julia Brunette, she's alive with the occupation of a cook, and both parents are together.

Identifier: 
gdp-kc0007-0004
Citation: 
Application for Enrollment at Genoa for Darwin Brunette, 21 June 1932; Folder: Brunette, Darwin, Box 320; Case Files of Students Attending Off-Reservation Schools and Colleges, ca. 1913 - 1959 (selected documents) (C-D); Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, NAID 5725762; Record Group 75; National Archives and Records Administration—Kansas City.
Original Date: 
1932 June 21st
Topic: 
Coming to Genoa, Families, Health, Disease and Mortality
Tribe(s): 
Chippewa
People: 
Darwin Brunette, Ben Brunette, Julia Brunette, J. S. Monks, Caroline Erley, M. L. Burns
Places: 

Onigum, MN

Format: 
Application
Type: 
Text