Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School

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The U.S. Indian Industrial School in Genoa was in operation from 1884 to 1934. Built on land that was formerly part of the Pawnee reservation, it is the only federal Indian boarding school in Nebraska with remaining structures. Over 4,000 indigenous youth from more than forty tribal nations attended the school. The goal of these boarding schools was to break the bonds indigenous children had to their families, tribes, and homelands in an effort to assimilate them into mainstream Euro-American culture.