A film surveys federal provisions for the education of the Native American Indian students in the United States during the Great Depression, and cultural integration of Native Americans into white cultures. An Indian woman holds her baby. An Indian man talks to a woman. Two women in traditional dress pose. Exteriors of a church. A picture depicting increase in grants for Indian education and decrease in appropriations for military control in the United States from 1886 to 1932.
U.S. Federal provisions for the education of the North American Indians in the United States during the Great Depression era. Native American Indian students come out of Chemawa Indian School boarding school in Oregon. An elementary school in Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Indian children on the grounds of Shiprock Reservation in New Mexico. Animated map depicts Indian schools in the United States. Cloth lines on the grounds of a school. A man walks out of a government school building.
A film surveys federal provisions for the education of the Native American Indians in the United States. A new gymnasium and a new hospital at Pipestone Government School, a boarding school in Minnesota. Boys use lawn mowers in the campus of a school. Athletes lined up. Boys playing football and baseball. Girls playing "kitten ball" which looks like baseball. A boy runs and leaps over another who is stationary for the other boy's vault.
Great Depression era footage about federal provisions for the education of the North American Native American Indians in the United States. Boarding school buildings and campus at Sherman Institute in Riverside, California. Indian students play football on a school playground.
Work-study education programs for North American Indians in the United States during the 1930s Great Depression era. Indian students enter a government school which is based on part-time work. Students learning new skills in the vocational school including typing, painting and working on blueprints (drafting).
U.S. government provisions for the education of Native American Indians during the Great Depression era in the United States. Clip focuses on Native American Indian students learning vocational skills, trades, and service skills so they can get jobs and earn a living. An Indian student works on a sketch. Students cultivate plants in a greenhouse. Girls at sewing machines. Three women pose. Indian women prepare food in a kitchen. Indian women learning nanny skills and caring for American children at a play school. Children on a slide at the playground.