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Reservations, Resistance, and the Indian Reorganization Act, 1900-1940
A photograph of boys planting while girls watch at St. Bernard’s Mission, Standing Rock Reservation, 1934.

A photograph of boys planting while girls watch at St. Bernard’s Mission, Standing Rock Reservation, 1934.

The effort to teach Indian children how to be more like white children included teaching them Euro-American gender roles. Here, young boys are being taught the principles of agriculture, with young girls looking on but not participating in the activity. The St. Bernard’s Mission school was opened by the Catholic Church at Fort Yates in North Dakota in 1877.

Citation Information
Seraphine, Sister M., “Children planting at Mission, 1934,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/8e8f4124310bab5f86b336cb30ec87d5.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Marquette University Archives, Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records. ID# 00260 via Recollection Wisconsin.

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Item 7 of 15 in the Primary Source Set Reservations, Resistance, and the Indian Reorganization Act, 1900-1940

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A letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (the “long hair” letter) about the way in which Indian people should dress and act, 1902.
A response to the “long hair” letter from the Hoopa Valley Indian Agency, 1902.
A photograph of a Crow Indian family eating together in their kitchen, 1910.
A photograph of a Crow Indian camp, taken between 1901 and 1911.
An excerpt from a daily schedule of programming for the Fort Bidwell boarding school in 1923.
A photograph of girls setting the lunch table at St. Francis Mission School in South Dakota, ca. 1915.
A photograph of boys planting while girls watch at St. Bernard’s Mission, Standing Rock Reservation, 1934.
An excerpt from The Problem of Indian Administration, a study of conditions on reservations conducted by the Brookings Institution, 1928.
A Bureau of Indian Affairs poster about the dangers of the eye disease trachoma, 1937.
A map showing the location of Indian reservations in 1900 and 1930.
An excerpt from The New Day for the Indians, an analysis of the successes of the Indian Reorganization Act, published in 1938.
An excerpt from Rebuilding Indian Country, a film created by the US Department of the Interior, 1933.
A photograph of Superintendent A. G. Hutton explaining the Indian Reorganization Act to Navajo men, 1934.
A photograph of a Navajo boy and a goat, ca. 1940.
An excerpt from a Department of the Interior report that explains Indian citizenship, 1952.

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