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In 1882, the school moved to its permanent site at 12th Street and Indian School Road. By 1884, the enrollment was 158. It became directly operated by the BIA in 1886. [1] [3] In 1925, the school expanded from primary grades to high school, and enrollment peaked at about 1,400 students in the 1930s. [4] Girls in a sewing class at AIS, circa 1910
The inspiration for the school's main building was the facility of the St. Joseph's Indian Normal School in Rensselaer, Indiana. [9] St. Anthony's Industrial School in San Diego in 1907, with students sent to St. Boniface. [8] Its role as an Indian school ended in 1952.
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]
Chemawa Indian School / tʃ ɪ ˈ m ɑː w ə / is a Native American boarding school in Salem, Oregon, United States.Named after the Chemawa band of the Kalapuya people of the Willamette Valley, it opened on February 25, 1880 [5] as an elementary school.
Sulphur Springs Indian School, Pontotoc County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory [79] open 1896–98 [2] Theodore Roosevelt Indian Boarding School, founded in 1923 in buildings of the U.S. Army's closed Fort Apache, Arizona, as of 2016 still in operation as a tribal school [80] Thomas Indian School, near Irving, New York
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The Menominee Indian boarding school, also known as Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial school, was an American Indian boarding school built on the Menominee Indian reservation in Keshena, Wisconsin in 1883. It operated until 1952. In 1899 the school consisted of 170 students and 5 staff. [1]