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Indian Civilian Conservation Corps crew on the stockade site at the end of the first day of work, Grand Portage, Minnesota, 1937. Photographed by Willoughby Maynard Babcock, Jr.
Students and a teacher at an Native American boarding school, c.1900.
“Intermediate” students inside a classroom at a boarding school in Beaulieu, Minnesota, c.1900.
Students at a Native American boarding school, c.1900.
Students inside a classroom at an Native American boarding school, c.1900.
Students at a Native American boarding school perform a Thanksgiving play, c.1900.
A young child inside a Native American boarding school, c.1890s.
Students and staff of an Native American boarding school, c.1900.
Children at a Native American boarding school work in a garden plot, c.1890s.
Members of the White Earth boarding school band photographed by the A. A. Richardson Photo-Illustrating Company between 1908 and 1916.