Explore Your Ancestry II
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Explore Your Ancestry II

In the previous Explore Your Ancestry article, we discussed how you could search for your ancestors through the 26 non-reservation boarding schools that were established in the early 1900’s for Native American children. Then through the National Archives that had all of their enrollment information, affiliated tribes, newspaper clippings, and much more. This post will...

Explore Your Ancestry
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Explore Your Ancestry

First created in 1842, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was created to oversee the administration and the management of almost 60,000,000 acres of Native American land.  Some 40 years after its fruition, the BIA set out to create 26 non-reservation boarding schools across 15 states and territories within North America.   The first of...