‘The Indian boarding school- Sherman Institute’ Post Card

‘The Indian boarding school- Sherman Institute’ Post Card

California
Riverside
Indigenous Peoples
Boarding School
Cultural Assimilation

This post card displays a hand colored drawing of the entrance to the Sherman Institute, with its institution named in red in the top left hand corner. It was an off- reservation Indian boarding school built in the mission revival architectural style and was designed to strip native Indian children of their culture, convert them to Christianity and transform their ways of life to fit within mainstream 20th century California. The Sherman Institute was located in Riverside, California and enrolled its first students on September 9th 1902 and later changed its name the the Sherman Indian High School in 1971. This institution was part of the wider effort during the 20th century to assimilate Native Indian children away from their home reservations.

For further information on the Sherman Institute visit: https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/10497

The Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.)

University of California Riverside Today, https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/10497

1902-1905

Ellen Daly

Sherman Indian Museum, Riverside, Ca.

English

Material object - postcard

20th century California