Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan’s Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways will digitize Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School decimal files located at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Chicago, Illinois to increase accessibility to these historical documents. Project staff will conduct multiple trips to the NARA facility to digitize the records related to the Mount Pleasant Indian Boarding School and the Great Lakes Indian Agency. The digital files will be cross-referenced with the Tribe’s existing boarding school student database, the accompanying metadata will be updated, and the records will be added to the Ziibiwing repository for community use. This project will result in increased access to these records for Tribal members, descendants of those who attended the school, and the public, helping to increase awareness and provide a deeper understanding of what happened in this boarding school.