Off-reservation boarding schools; Indians of North America--Education; Comanche Indians; Anadarko (Okla.); St. Patrick's Mission School; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
between 1910 and 1911
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 75
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
Between 1875 and 1925 Catholic mission conducted extensive mission work among American Indians in Oklahoma, though their efforts were not particularly fruitful in the long run. Schools for Indians operated at Sacred Heart (chiefly for Potawatomi, Semi nole, and Sac and Fox), at Pawhuska and Gray Horse (Osage), at Purcell, Ardmore, and Chickasha (Chickasaw), at Muskogee and Tulsa (Creek), at Quapaw (Quapaw), at Vinita (Cherokee), at Antlers (Choctaw), and at Anadarko (Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache). The longest lived of these was St. Patrick's Mission, established near the Anadarko Agency in 1892 and operated continuously until 1966...Between 1911 and 1933 St. Patrick's was an official federal Indian school called Anadarko Boarding School. Priests and sisters who staffed it held civil service positions under the Department of the Interior. St. Patrick's holds claim to having encouraged the aspirations of several of Oklahoma's leading Indian artists, including Acee Blue Eagle and Woody Crumbo." [SOURCE: White, James D. "St. Patrick's Mission." The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=ST010. Accessed 23 Aug. 2018.]