opu_ms27.xml Guide to the Forest Grove Indian Training School Collection 1884-2011 Forest Grove Indian Training School Collection Finding aid prepared by Eva Guggemos and Linda Morton-Keithley Sponsored by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission Pacific University Archives
http://www.pacificu.edu/library/services/archives/ 2043 College Way Forest Grove, OR, 97116 503-352-1405 archives@pacificu.edu
2011 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-10-20 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Forest Grove Indian Training School Collection MS.27 Pacific University, Archives
http://www.pacificu.edu/library/services/archives/ 2043 College Way Forest Grove, OR, 97116 503-352-1405 archives@pacificu.edu
Collection materials are in English. 1 0.5 cubic feet 1 box 1884-2011 An artificial collection of materials about the Indian Training School at Forest Grove, Oregon.

Chiefly research notes and copies of material housed at other institutions. Three early items are present: 1. The Indian Citizen. Forest Grove: 1884. Vol. 1:1. 2. Pacific University Trustees autograph letter regarding the location of the school. Forest Grove: 1884. Contemporary copy in manuscript. 3. Typed transcripts of correspondence between Forest Grove Indian Training School alumnus, Henry Sicade, and Sam T. Walker, regarding memories of the school. Also contains copies of Pacific University student papers, newspaper clippings, published writings about the school, and related materials.

Collection is open for research.

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[item identification], Forest Grove Indian Training School Collection, Pacific University Archives, Forest Grove, Oregon.

 Historical Note

The Indian Training School at Forest Grove, Oregon was established in 1880 as an 'off reservation' boarding school. It served the Pacific Northwest with students coming from Oregon and the territories of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. Studies included various academic disciplines, plus industrial training (farming, blacksmithing, shoemaking, carpentry, for example) for the boys and housekeeping skills for the girls.

The school closed its Forest Grove campus in 1885 and moved to Salem, Oregon where it operates today as Chemawa Indian School.

 Chemawa Indian School Indian Industrial School (Forest Grove, Or.) Students--Oregon Colleges and universities Elementary and Secondary Education Native Americans Oregon Clippings (information artifacts) Correspondence The Indian Citizen, vol. 1 no. 1 (original and photocopies) 1 1884 Student Rosters (photocopies and typed transcripts) 2 1880-1885 1880-1997

Copied from materials held at the Oregon State Archives and the National Archives. Includes correspondence with archives staff.

 Death records (photocopies) 3 1885-2011

Copied from materials at the National Archives. Also includes a draft inventory of RG75 - Preliminary Inventory of Records of the Chemawa Indian School and correspondence with archives staff.

 Correspondence (original, typed transcripts and photocopies) 4 1880-1917

Includes letters from Henry Sicade, a student at the school, to S. T. Walker, recounting his experiences.

 Writings about the Indian Training School (original and photocopies) 5 1959-2009

Includes: Marion County History (centennial edition), June, 1959; Oregon Historical Quarterly, spring, 1993; and Pacific: The Magazine of Pacific University, spring, 2009.

 Newspaper clippings (original and photocopies) 6 1881-2003 Student paper - Forest Grove's Adopted Children: A Look at the Indian Industrial Training School at Forest Grove, Oregon, 1880-1885 by Glenn Kinney 7 undated Student paper - Misunderstood Intentions: The Contexts of Education Reformers Regarding the American Indian Trailing School in the Late 1880's by Arie Higgins 8 2000 Student paper - Indian Education and Acculturation: The Forest Grove Industrial Training School, 1880-1885 by Cynthia Straughan 9 1991 Student paper - The Forest Grove Indian Industrial Training School AKA Pacific University by Chanelle Nakamiyo 10 Lecture Notes 11 1994

Prepared by Richard Read, Pacific University Archives.

 Research materials (photocopies) 12 circa 1882-1990

Various materials pertaining to the general topic of education for Native Americans.

 Bibliography - The Forest Grove Indian School 13 2008