WHAT'S NEW

  • An anticipated 20,000 pages of material sourced from the Quaker & Special Collections at Haverford College and from the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College will be made available in NIBSDA.

  • Finding Aid(s) – reference resources – of Chemawa Indian School; Chemawa Indian Training School; Forest Grove Indian Training School; Mt. Edgecumbe Boarding School; and Pipestone Indian School are available and describe what collections are currently uploaded to NIBSDA.

  • 17,640 catalog records of Carlisle Indian Industrial School student records from 1879-1918. These catalog records were contributed by The Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center project which aims to develop a comprehensive searchable database of Carlisle Indian School resources. These catalog records in NIBSDA will redirect users to http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/

  • 2,984 catalog records of Genoa Indian Industrial School student records from 1886-1938. These catalog records were contributed by the The Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project which is a space for telling the stories of the American Indian children who attended Genoa, the stories of their communities, and the stories of their descendants. These catalog records in NIBSDA will redirect users to https://genoaindianschool.org/

  • 8,255 pages of Mt. Edgecumbe Boarding School student case file records from 1925-1949.

  • 5,664 pages of Chemawa Indian Training School student case file records from 1880-1916.

  • Digital files of Pipestone Indian School photographic imagery and correspondence is currently featured as part of the contributions to NIBSDA made by the American Philosophical Society. The APS Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) works actively with Indigenous communities throughout the continent, including providing copies for free to Indigenous researchers and community entities.

  • 2,031 pages of Pipestone Indian School student case file records from the 1920s-1940s.

  • 2,168 pages of Pipestone Indian School administrative and curriculum records (including Decimal Correspondence Files, Correspondence Received from the Supervisor of Indian Education, Alumni Association Correspondence, Quarterly Reports, and Student Citizenship Compositions) from 1894-1929.

 

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