1879: U.S. assigns health care at boarding schools
The Office of Indian Affairs, recognizing that epidemics are decimating boarding school student populations, assigns medical doctors to attend to students at off-reservation boarding schools.
- Theme
- Epidemics, Federal-Tribal Relations
- Region
- California, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest
Sac and Fox Indian Boarding and Mission School, Sac and Fox Agency, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), 1875
Courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society
Chickasaw Girls Boarding School, Sulphur, Oklahoma
Courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society, Joe Colbert Collection
Shawnee Boarding School, Oklahoma, 1880s
Courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society
Boarding School, Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota, 1884
Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration