Indian Schools: Navajo Service

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Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Daughters of the American Revolution collection of postcards and photographs, image #, NMAI.AC.324; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents: Postcard with two photos of a Navajo Indian school. The captions say top: "A Day School dormitory built by Navajo parents so children might attend school" and bottom: "These children turned awawy from school because there was no space." Image number P19923.

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NMAI.AC.324

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Daughters of the American Revolution collection of postcards and photographs

Creator

Daughters of the American Revolution

Summary

This collection includes 26 photographs and 17 postcards of Native American communities across the U.S., collected by the Daughters of the American Revolution.