Indian Boarding Schools&

Library Additions

Presentation to the

Rockdale Genealogical SocietyJanuary 12, 2013

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Indian Boarding Schools

The Hampton Institute

Hampton Institute History

• Hampton Agricultural & Industrial School– Founded in 1868– Sponsored by American Missionary

Association

Hampton Institute History

• Chartered “Normal” School– Established in 1868– School for training training teachers

Hampton Institute History

• Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute– Chartered in 1870– Land Grant School

Hampton Institute History

• Established boarding schools for training Native Americans in 1878

• Most students were from western tribes

• Pioneering model of education– Academic & Manual/Technical Trades

• Program was small compared to others

Hampton Institute History

• Boarding school program ended in 1923

• Over 1,00 students attended• 63 tribes represented–Majority from Sioux– Less than 50 from Cherokee

Ben’s Great Grandmother

• Nancy Jane Lee– Attended Hampton Institute– September 1894 through June 1897

• Her siblings attended as well (including Alonzo, her brother)

Life at Hampton Institute

• Removed (almost) entirely from family and home

• Emphasis placed on “civilized” language, religion and culture

• Train “the hand, the head and the heart…to be examples to, and teachers of, their people.”

Life at Hampton Institute

• Nancy left home at 17-years-old

• Nancy returned to Cherokee, NC a relative stranger three years later.

• Uncertain of her graduation status

Life at Hampton Institute

• Three year course-of-study:– Junior–Middle– Senior

Ancestry’s Products

• Ancestry.com– Individual subscriptions– Cost to individual– Personalized options and enhanced content

• Ancestry Library Edition– Available only at public, college & technical school libraries

through consortial subscription– Cost distributed through GALILEO– Does not include sources such as Historical Newspaper

Collection, Obituary Collection, and Periodical Source Index.

HeritageQuest Online

• Consortial subscription through GALILEO• Can access from home with GALILEO

password– Visit the library for our current password– Changes every three months

• Includes access to Periodical Source Index (PERSI) – a comprehensive index of genealogy and local history periodicals

New Additions

to the

Conyers-RockdaleLibrary System

Collections @ UNC-Chapel Hill

• The Wilson Library– Home to UNC’s special collections:• North Carolina Collection• Rare Book Collection• Southern Folklife Collection• Southern Historical Collection• University Archives & Record Management

Services

Collections @ UNC-Chapel Hill

• North Carolina Collection– How do you pronounce these places in NC?

• Rodanthe [row-DAN-thee]• Buncombe [BUNK-um]• Ijames [IMES]• Kerr (as in Kerr Lake, Kerr Drug Store, etc.) [CAR]

– From Talk Like a Tar Heel: North Carolina Place Names• http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/resources/tlth.html

Collections @ UNC-Chapel Hill

• Photographic Archives– Part of the North Carolina Collection– Not entirely digitized yet– Can order re-prints/reproductions/scans for a

fee– Provide on-site research assistance and limited

assistance via email or phone– Contact:

• wilsonlibrary@unc.edu or 919.962.7992

Wooten Collection, c. 1930Tobacco Farmer & Sons

Photo of Market House in Beaufort (1862)

Hugh Morton Collection (c.1910)Western Carolina Stage

Collections @ UNC-Chapel Hill

• Southern Historical Collection– Contains primary materials documenting

the American South, dating from the late 18th century.

– Excellent online exhibitions, including:• A Nursery of Patriotism: The University at

War, 1861-1945

Collections @ UNC-Chapel Hill

• Oral Histories of the American South– Contains digitized oral histories that are part

of the Southern Oral History Program.– Available online– Provides some enrichment for genealogists

newly researching particular times and subjects

– Attempt to preserve the first-hand histories to be found in our communities

[ Not to be outdone… ]

Genealogy Resources

via

The Digital Library ofGeorgia

Digital Library of Georgia

• Based at the University of Georgia Libraries

• Diverse offerings:– Sanborn Fire Maps– Vanishing Georgia (photographs)– University of Georgia Press Georgia

History Ebook Project

Oral History Update

• Oral Histories of the American South digitization project at UNC-Chapel Hill

• TKOH & Knight Foundation will launch Thread app for tablets/phones this Fall

• StoryCorps (in Atlanta!)

• Partnership of NPR and The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

• Since 2003:– Collected & archived 45,000+ interviews– Hosted nearly 90,000 participants– Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share,

and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

• StoryBooth @ Atlanta History Center• Call 800-850-4406 for reservations/information.

Oral History Update—StoryCorps

Nancy Guinn Memorial Library

• Continue to develop a strong collection of resources– In part, by working with the Rockdale County

Genealogical Society• Suggestions? Please let us know!

• Train staff in research techniques specific to our genealogical resources

• Support the research and discovery of family, local, state, and national history

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