Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction: Menominee Indian Adult Education Project Records
1952-1971
- Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction
Series 2376
5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society
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The Menominee Indian Adult Education Project was part of a program funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to help tribal members “to earn a livelihood, to conduct their own affairs, and to assume their responsibilities as citizens without special services because of their status as Indians.” The project was part of a larger federal policy called “Termination” which gradually cut all federal funding for American Indians and ended federal trust status of tribal property. Only a few tribes were ever subjected to this policy. The Menominee were the largest and one of the first. The education project provided specific funds for Menominee adult tribal members to attend post-high school educational institutions including training programs, technical colleges, and universities. The records include the contract between the Department of Public Instruction and the Bureau of Indian Affairs and related correspondence, course information, records of quarterly payments to various educational institutions, reports detailing the activity and progress of the project, and records documenting the effect termination would have on Menominee schools. The records also include documentation on the course work and in some instances transcript information of individual students.
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