Statistics of Indian tribes, Indian agencies, and Indian schools of every character
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This little handbook is a compendium of statistics that includes basic data on Wisconsin Indian schools at the height of assimilation and the boarding school era. After listing all the federally recognized tribes and their agents, it details every school in the country operated or funded by the government: numbers of students, teachers, budgets, physical plant, etc. It does not contain any descriptive accounts by students, teachers, or administrators but only tables and statistical data. Wisconsin schools are scattered throughout the volume on the following pages: Menominee, Stockbridge and Oneida Schools, 35-36 and 166-167 Lake Superior Ojibwe schools, 39-40 and 167-170 Tomah Indian School, 97 Oneida Day Schools, 166-171 It does not describe any Ho-Chunk schools because there was no Ho-Chunk reservation or agent in Wisconsin; many Ho-Chunk children attended the Tomah Indian School, however. It also does not describe privately run missionary
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United States. Dept. of the Interior
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
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- U.S. Government Publications
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- Government Printing Office
- Subjects
- Native Americans
Boarding schools
Schools
Indians of North America Government relations
Indian reservations
Menominee
Ojibwe
Oneida
Mohegan - Location
- Ashland County; Bayfield County; Brown County; Menominee County; Monroe County; Oneida County; Sawyer County; Shawano County; Vilas County;
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- English
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- United States. Dept. of the Interior. Statistics of Indian tribes, Indian agencies, and Indian schools of every character. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/30029. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- United States. Dept. of the Interior, Statistics of Indian tribes, Indian agencies, and Indian schools of every character. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/30029
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- United States. Dept. of the Interior. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/30029>.