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The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from its founding in 1879 through 1918. It was based in the historic Carlisle Barracks, which was transferred to the Department of Interior from the War ...
The Phoenix Indian School, or Phoenix Indian High School in its later years, was a Bureau of Indian Affairs -operated school in Encanto Village, in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona. It served lower grades also from 1891 to 1935, and then served as a high school thereafter. It opened in 1891 and closed in 1990 on the orders of the federal government.
In 1898 the Chamberlain Indian School was founded by the federal government in the town of that name in South Dakota, on the east bank of the Missouri River.It was operated to educate and assimilate Native American children from the Lakota reservations, and ran in that capacity until 1909. [6]
English. The Kamloops Indian Residential School was part of the Canadian Indian residential school system. Located in Kamloops, British Columbia, it was once the largest residential school in Canada, with its enrolment peaking at 500 in the 1950s. [1] [2] The school was established in 1890 and operated until 1969, when it was taken over from ...
Dennison Wheelock (June 14, 1871 – March 10, 1927) was an Oneida band conductor, composer, and cornet soloist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] Wheelock was compared to prominent bandleader John Philip Sousa, and nominated to be bandmaster of the United States Marine Band. [2] At the age of 40 he became an American Indian rights ...
Band and Battalion of the U.S. Indian School. Band and Battalion of the U.S. Indian School is a silent film documentary made on April 30, 1901 by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company made in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA. The cinematographer was Arthur Marvin. It depicts a parade drill by the cadet corps of the American Indian School which ...
The park is on the site of the Phoenix Indian School, one of several boarding schools owned and operated by the U.S. government, designed in the late 19th century to socialize and assimilate Native Americans into the dominant Euro-American socio-cultural system. These schools became controversial in later decades for the mistreatment of their ...
White Earth Band, Leech Lake Band, Grand Portage Band, Bois Forte Band, Fond du Lac Band. The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe ( Ojibwe: Misi-zaaga'igani Anishinaabeg ), also known as the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, is a federally recognized American Indian tribe in east-central Minnesota. The Band has 4,302 members as of 2012.