urn:taro:ttu.sw.00081 Indian Schools: An Inventory of the Collection, 1929-1945, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Texas Tech University MS 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806) 742-3749 Fax: (806) 742-0496 Webpage: http://swco.ttu.edu Contact Person: Reference Archivist
2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, February 2001. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:21:54 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00081 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Indian Schools Collection, 1929-1945 Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2000 Descriptive Summary Jennings, Evelyn Indian Schools Collection, 1929-1945 The records pertain to various Indian Schools from 1929-1945. S 477.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 2 boxes (2.0 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

Established in 1824 under the U.S. War Department, the Bureau of Indian Affairs was transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1849. The BIA held jurisdiction over Native American trade, removal to the West, protection from exploitation, concentration on reservations, and education. Unsuccessful in preventing wars and eliminating corrupt practices, the focus of the BIA was changed by the Dawes Act of 1887, the Burke Act of 1906, and through the Meriam Report of 1928. Prepared by W. Carson Ryan, Jr. the report suggested that education should be the primary function of the BIA. He also advised that Indian education be geared for all age levels and that it be closely tied to the community. Moreover, the report encouraged the establishment of day schools to serve as community centers and proposed reform on boarding schools, including the introduction of Indian culture into the curriculum. The progressive educational program was led by John Collier, who served as commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1933-1945.

 Scope and Contents

The collection, pertaining to various Indian schools, consists of correspondence, financial material, original drawings by Indian children, literary productions, maps, printed material, schedules and lists, food and clothing allotment records, vaccination records, and scrapbook material.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Organizations) Camp Verde Indian Sub Agency Charles H. Burke Indian School Cheyenne River Boarding School (Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, S.D.) Pueblo Bonito School (Crownpoint, N.M.) Navajo Service (Window Rock, Ariz.) United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs Santa Fe Indian School Toadlena Boarding School (Toadlena, N.M.) Wingate Vocational High School (Wingate, Ariz.) Places Crownpoint (N.M.)--Social conditions Santa Fe (N.M.)--Social conditions Toadlena (N.M.)--Social conditions Window Rock (Ariz.)--Social conditions Fort Wingate (N.M.)--Social conditions Subjects Adult education--New Mexico Adult education--Arizona Education and state--New Mexico--History Education and state--Arizona--History Education, Secondary--Arizona--History Education, Secondary--New Mexico--History Ethnobotany--Southwestern States Horticulture--Southwestern States Indians of North America--New Mexico--History Indians of North America--Education--New Mexico Indians of North America--Arizona--History Indians of North America--Education--Arizona Indians of North America--Ethnobotany Indians of North America--Health and hygiene Navajo Indians--Education Navajo language--Study and teaching School children--Food--New Mexico--History School children--Food--Arizona--History Weeds--Control--Southwestern States Acquisition

Gift, 1959

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, 2000

 Preferred Citation

Indian Schools Collection, 1929-1945, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources Roessel, Robert A. Navajo Education, 1948-1978, Its Progress and Its Problems. Rough Rock, Arizona: Navajo Curriculum Center, Rough Rock Demonstration School, 1979. Bureau of Indian Affairs Plans to Consolidate Off-Reservation Indian Boarding Schools: Report by the U.S. General Accounting Office. Washington, D.C.: The Office, 1983.

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

Ernest Wallace oral history interview [sound recording], 1975 Collection Inventory Manuscript Files 1 1 Indian Materials: Correspondence, 1938-1942 and undated 1 2 Crownpoint Boarding School: Financial Material, 1939-1942 and undated 1 3 Navajo Service: Window Rock and Purchase Orders, 1940-1941 1 4 Indian Designs, undated 1 5 Crownpoint Boarding School: Literary Productions, 1938 and undated 1 6 Literary Production: General, 1936-1942 and undated 1 7 Naschitty School: Literary Productions, 1935 1 8 Navajo Service: Literary Productions, 1938-1942 and undated 1 9 Maps, 1937-1944 1 10 Charles H. Burke Indian School, 1936 1 11 Cheyenne River Boarding School, 1938-1942 1 12 Crownpoint Boarding School: Activity Curriculum, 1933 1 13 Crownpoint News, 1938-1942 and undated Crownpoint Boarding School 1 14 Menus, 1937-1939 and undated 1 15 Reports and Schedules, 1936-1942 and undated 1 16 Miscellaneous, 1938-1940 and undated 1 17 Fern Yazzie School: Driver Training, 1941 and undated 1 18 Daily Schedules, undated 1 19 Isleta Day School News, 1940-1941 1 20 Navajo Agency: Fort Defiance, Arizona, 1935-1938 1 21 Annual Estimates: Various Schools, 1941-1942 Navajo Service 1 22 Window Rock Clothing Announcement, 1940 1 23 Home Economics, 1933-1942 and undated 1 24 Lists, 1941 and undated 1 25 Window Rock: Monthly Summary of Adult Accomplishments, 1941 and undated 1 26 Window Rock: Navajo Service News, 1936 and undated 1 27 Window Rock: Radio Broadcasts, 1938-1939 1 28 Window Rock: Radio Broadcasts, 1938-1939 1 29 Reports, 1939-1941 1 30 Miscellaneous, 1937-1941 2 1 New Mexico College of Agriculture, 1938-1941 Office of Indian Affairs Printed Materials 2 2 Health Materials, 1934-1942 2 3 Health Materials, 1934-1942 2 4 Miscellaneous, 1929-1942 2 5 Miscellaneous, 1933-1942 2 6 Paraje Day School, Paraje Tribune, 1939 2 7 Rosebud Reservation, Adult Education, 1939-1941 2 8 Santa Fe Indian School, 1937-1940 Toadlena Boarding School 2 9 Junior Tribal Council Minutes, 1940 2 10 Reports, 1933-1939 2 11 Miscellaneous, 1937-1941 and undated Tohatchi Day School 2 12 Day School Teachers, 1936 and undated 2 13 Reports, 1936-1937 2 14 Miscellaneous, 1937-1941 and undated 2 15 Torreon Day School, Miscellaneous, 1940 2 16 Tuba City Boarding School, Home Economics Report, 1935-1936 2 17 Turtle Mountain Reservation, Adult Education and Rehabilitation Programs, undated Wingate Vocational High School 2 18 Shush-Be-Toh News, 1943-1945 2 19 Miscellaneous, 1934 and undated 2 20 Navajo Service, Window Rock, Scrapbook Material, 1938 Toadlena Boarding School 2 21 Scrapbook Material, 1938 2 22 Wooden Clippings Album, undated 2 23 Printed Material, Miscellaneous, 1929-1942 and undated 2 24 Printed Material, Miscellaneous, undated