Annual reports written by the Superintendent of the Mt Pleasant Indian School addressed to the the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Each report provide details on the number of students in attendance, health conditions, building conditions, curriculum and more.
This PDF in an excerpt from the original 1,174 page PDF.
Pamphlet about the Mt Pleasant Indian School.
"This pamphlet was executed by student-apprentices of the printing trade at the Chilocco Indian School, Oklahoma"--P. [17].
Note: To protect the privacy of those that died as well as the survivors, any pages with images of students has been removed from this file. The original pamphlet was 20 pages long. The full version can be found at the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University.
On December 6, 1830, in a message to Congress, President Andrew Jackson called for the relocation of eastern Native American tribes to land west of the Mississippi River, in order to open new land for settlement by citizens of the United States.
As American power and population grew in the 19th century, the United States gradually rejected the main principle of treaty-making—that tribes were self-governing nations—and initiated policies that undermined tribal sovereignty. For Indian nations, these policies resulted in broken treaties, vast land loss, removal and relocation, population decline, and cultural decimation. The "Indian Problem" was produced to serve as the central video in the exhibition "Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations," on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. This video introduces visitors to the section of the exhibition titled "Bad Acts, Bad Paper."
"The Great Nation of Futurity" is a segment within the sixth volume of The United States Democratic Review. It is one of the first publications to promote an idea that would come to be known as Manifest Destiny: the idea that the United States is entitled to all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and that it has a duty to bring "civilization" to the lands.
An exerpt from page 427:
"The far-reaching, the boundless future will be the era of American greatness. In its magnificent domain of space and time, the nation of many nations is destined to manifest; to mankind the excellence of divine principles; to establish on earth the noblest temple ever dedicated to the worship of the Most High—the Sacred and the True."
Newspaper clipping from Isabella County Enterprise announcing and celebrating the first stone being laid for the construction of the Mt. Pleasant Boarding School
Transcript of an official address given by Pres. Andrew Jackson to the United States Congress in 1830, detailing the beginning of his plan for Indian Removal and laying the foundation for the future boarding schools.
Biographical information from the Warren Petoskey Papers Collection. This is the first page, accounting for his experience growing up in rural Michigan, dealing with racism and parental abuse. Petoskey connects the abuse with his father's and grandfather's attendance at Indian Boarding Schools.
