Title:
Account by Grace Stenberg Parsons of the Structure of the Genoa Indian Industrial School
Record Group Number:
RG1298.AM
Collection:
Grace Stenberg Parsons, 1893-1985
Location:
HQ 01/03/05/07
Folder:
Folder 1
Contributing Institution:
History Nebraska; https://history.nebraska.gov/
Creator:
Parsons, Grace Stenberg, 1893-1985
Description:
Grace Stenberg Parsons' account of the structure of the Genoa Indian Industrial School. This includes a description of the buildings, classes that were taught, general routines, and graduation proceedings. Parsons criticizes the closing of off-reservation schools and states that Native Americans need the "restraining and guiding hand the Indian schools gave them" in order to further assimilate and fend off poverty, disease and joblessness.
Language:
eng
Subject (Topics) :
Off-reservation boarding schools
Subject (Topics) :
Indian school children
Subject (Topics) :
Indians of North America--Social conditions
Subject (Topics) :
Indians of North America--Economic conditions
Source (Names):
Genoa Indian Industrial School (Genoa, Neb.)
Source (Names):
Parsons, Grace Stenberg, 1893-1985
Source (Names):
Tyndall, Victoria
Source (Places):
Genoa (Neb.)
Source (Places):
Lawrence (Kan.)
Source (Places):
Santa Fe (N.M.)
Source (Temporal):
1930s
Source (Temporal):
1880s
Format-Extent:
19 pages
Format-Medium:
personal narratives
Type:
Text
Relation:
Original
Rights:
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File Format:
TIF
Date Digital :
2022-04-25
Identifier:
RG1298f001i0027-0045
