{"id":293756,"date":"2024-11-16T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/16\/the-indian-school-journal-pieces-of-history\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T20:34:08","slug":"the-indian-school-journal-pieces-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/16\/the-indian-school-journal-pieces-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indian School Journal \u2013 Pieces of History"},"content":{"rendered":"


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November is Native American Heritage Month. Visit <\/em>National Archives News<\/em><\/a> for more information on related events and resources. Today\u2019s post from Mary Ryan is an update of her 2011 <\/em>Prologue article.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the second half of the 19th century, federal Indian policy shifted from military confrontation to efforts to \u201ccivilize\u201d and assimilate the native peoples into the general population. Indian schools, administered by the Office of Indian Affairs, were a significant part of this policy.<\/p>\n

One of these schools\u2014the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma\u2014was in operation for nearly a century (1884\u20131980) and drew students from more than 40 tribes. Chilocco was a vocational boarding school that offered instruction to students in primary grades through high school. From its beginning in one building, it grew to be one of the largest schools for Natives in the nation.<\/p>\n

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Chilocco Boarding School, Indian Territory, 1885. (National Archives Identifier <\/a>313190184<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

A school pamphlet describing the 1925\u201326 course of study proclaimed that \u201cChilocco offers unlimited changes for training and development in [agriculture].\u201d The school also offered boys vocational training in printing, carpentry, auto mechanics, engineering, physical education, and coaching. Girls were offered courses in home economics and nursing. In later years, the school offered plumbing, electrical work, welding, mechanics, food services, and office education.<\/p>\n

Students produced the Indian School Journal<\/em> in the school\u2019s print shop. The journal was published weekly from 1904 to 1906 and monthly from 1906 to 1926.<\/p>\n

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Indian School Journal: Volume 7, Number 10, 1907. (National Archives Identifier 2745461<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Indian School Journal: Volume 12, Number 4, 1912. (National Archives Identifier \/2745516<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Educational and health features, poems, and inspirational stories mixed with school news in general, such as the results of sports competitions, retirement of staff, special guests at the school, and school plays. The journal included a number of photographs of students, faculty, school buildings, Native houses, and artifacts.<\/p>\n

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Page of the Indian School Journal featuring images of a basketball team and a view of the campus, March 1911. (National Archives Identifier 2745505<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Many issues of the Indian School Journal<\/em> have been digitized and are available in the National Archives Catalog<\/a>. The Catalog also includes scans of original 8\u2033 x 10\u2033 glass plate negatives<\/a>, some of which were used by the print shop in publishing the Indian School Journal<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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Miss Robertson\u2019s School Room, from glass plate negative,
1913. (National Archives Identifier 251732<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Additional records relating to the Chilocco Indian School are available at the National Archives at Fort Worth<\/a>, Texas, where you can find a wealth of resources for research in Native American settlement in the Indian Territory.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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