urn:taro:ttu.sw.00158 Chilocco Indian School (Oklahoma) Collection: An Inventory of the the Collection, 1963-1996, 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://www.swco.ttu.edu Contact Person: Reference Archivist
July 2003 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Karen Hicks, July 2003. Finding aid written in English Mon May 2 2005 Updated contact information for student records. Tue Jul 22 15:23:35 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00158 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Chilocco Indian School (Oklahoma) Collection, 1963-1996, Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, September 2002 Descriptive Summary Chilocco Indian School Chilocco Indian School (Oklahoma) Collection, 1963-1996 Memorabilia and records from the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma. S 1501.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 box (0.2 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

The Chilocco Indian Boarding School in Chilocco, Oklahoma closed its doors in 1980 after 96 years of providing service in vocational education and training to Native Americans from across the U.S. Not only did the campus provide buildings with class rooms but also dormitories for boys and girls.

 Scope and Contents

The collection includes the original Chilocco Indian Boarding School's student rosters for the years 1968-1975. It provides such information as student names, grade level, sex, birth date, tribe, name of guardian or parent, community address, and agency. Also includes a 1963 Baccalaureate and Commencement Program, news clippings concerning the history of the school, and a list of former school employees.

Please note: Two agencies, the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) and U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA, have the largest and most complete holdings on Chilocco Indian Schools. This includes student records. OHS has information at http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/res/summaryholdings.htm and can be contacted at 405-522-5225. NARA's website has some information at http://www.archives.gov/facilities/tx/fort_worth/finding_aids/native_american_microfilm.html and can be contact at 1-866-272-6272.

 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) Chilocco Indian School Places Chilocco (Okla.) Subjects Off-reservation boarding schools--Oklahoma--Chilocco Indians of North America--Education Indians of North America--Education (Secondary) Indians of North America--Education (Primary) Boarding schools--Oklahoma--Chilocco Vocational school students--Oklahoma--Chilocco

Gift, 2002

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, September 2002

 Preferred Citation

Chilocco Indian School (Oklahoma) Collection, 1963-1996, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Chilocco Indian Agricultural School Yearbooks, 1957-1971. Chilocco Indian School Journal,Vol. 58, 1958-1959.

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

Arlie Willis Papers, 1862-2002 and undated Indian Schools Collection, 1929-1945 Chilocco Indian School [microfilm] collection, 1940-1996 Collection Inventory Records 1 1 Student Rosters, 1968-1975 1 2 The Chickasaw Times Newspaper, 1993 1 3 Commencement Program, 1963 1 4 Former Chilocco School Employees, undated 1 5 News Clippings, 1980-1996 1 6 Microfilmed Collection Information, 2002