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Case Study in Reparative Description: Tucson Indian Training School Records

July 22, 2024
Tucson Indian Training School students ready to leave for a basketball game off campus, Spring 1937. Pearl ID: islandora:362723

--by Elaine Shilstut, Nick Skaggs, and Allison Davis

In 1906, an 8-year-old Akimel O'odham (Pima) student named Annie Moore enrolled at the Tucson Indian Training School. “We were not allowed to speak the Pima tongue at school,” Moore would recall almost 70 years later...

Author: 
PHS Staff
Tags: 
Reparative Description, Native Americans, Archival Processing
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Henry Roe Cloud and the American Indian Institute

January 25, 2023
 American Indian Institute student group, circa 1930. Pearl ID: islandora:300779

Now available in Pearl are records of the American Indian Institute, one of the first college preparatory schools for Native American boys in the country. Originally known as the Roe Indian Institute until 1921, the school was founded in 1915 by Henry Roe Cloud, a...

Author: 
Allison
Tags: 
Digitization, Native Americans, Pearl Digital Collections
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Stories of RNS Photos: Native American Protests

November 9, 2022

In 2019, with grant support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, PHS digitized nearly 500 images from the RNS photograph collection all of which are now viewable in Pearl. The photographs chosen for the project spanned various years, topic, faiths, and geographical locations, but all supported the Religious News Service’s mission to document twentieth...

Author: 
Allison
Tags: 
Religious News Service, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Native Americans
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Now Processed: Cecil Corbett Papers

August 26, 2022
Photograph of Corbett (right) receiving an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Huron College, South Dakota, June 1968. Pearl ID: islandora:288041 [RG 535, Box 18, Folder 13]

The Cecil Corbett Papers have been processed as Record Group 535, and the guide to the records is now available:...

Author: 
Nick
Tags: 
Collections, Archival Processing, Native Americans
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Guide to Presbyterian-affiliated Native American Schools

November 23, 2021
The Indian School at Fort Wrangell, Alaska, ca. 1877-1907. [Pearl ID: 103135]

As the 225th General Assembly prepares to address the historic injustices toward Indigenous peoples harmed by the Presbyterian Church, PHS has turned to its collections to provide an account of Native American schools with historical ties to the PC(USA) and its predecessor

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Author: 
Kristen
Tags: 
Native Americans, Collections
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