Letter from C. B. Lohmiller to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 7 Aug. 1923

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: 
Regarding children being sent home to be treated for a disease.
Description: 

Letter notes that Woodhull children were sent home to their parents to be treated for trachoma. Their father was to take them regularly but C. B. Lohmiller has not heard from anyone. Children are to be sent to a different school.

Identifier: 
gdp-kc0014-0043
Citation: 
Letter from C. B. Lohmiller to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 7 Aug. 1923; Folder: Defective Indian Children, Box 2; Correspondence Files, 1909-1925 (NAID 6036839); Office of Indian Affairs, Omaha Agency; Record Group 75; National Archives and Records Administration—Kansas City
Original Date: 
1923 August 7th
Topic: 
Families, Health, Disease and Mortality, Leaving Genoa
People: 
Edward Louis Woodhull, Edward Woodhull, Grace Woodhull, George Woodhull, Jesse Woodhull, C. B. Lohmiller
Places: 

Omaha Indian Agency; Macy, NE; Washington D.C.; Winnebago, NE

Format: 
Letter
Type: 
Text