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Intermountain Inter-Tribal School collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-083

Content Description

One box of printed and manuscript materials related to Intermountain Inter-Tribal School from a former teacher at the school, dating from roughly 1960 to 1984.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

USU Special Collections & Archives purchased this collection from Orrin Schwab in 2021.

Language of Description

English

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • 1960-1984

Extent

1 Linear Feet (1 box of printed and manuscript items)

Inventory

Printed items -13 miscellaneous printed booklets with student writings and poetry. Some published by Intermountain School and some by national school (Explain, Emerge, Dine, A Look at Me, Eagle Poetry, Eagle Views, Intermountain School informational booklet) -4 issues of “Sun Shield”, student poetry. (May 1976, May 1977 May 1978, May 1979) -2 issues of “Angwamas Minosewag Anishinabeg (Time of the Indian), published in Minnesota. -13 issues of “Naatsiilid”. Student poetry and writings. 1970’s. (one duplicate) -28 issues of “Smoke Signals”. Student poetry and writing. Published by Intermountain School in Brigham City. 1960’s and 1970’s. (17 different issues, with 11 duplicates of some of those issues, total of 28). -1 yearbook for Intermountain Inter-Tribal School. 1984. This was the last year that the school was open. Manuscript items -4 Intermountain School student notebooks of writings. These are hand-written stories and poetry written by the student for the semester, usually 3 or 4 months). These are great source documents for understanding the dynamics, structure and student experience at the Intermountain Inter-Tribal School in Brigham City. -1 folder with color photos of students and student writings. -9 teachers’ folders containing Intermountain School student writings. Each folder contains many pages of creative writing and assignments. Many of the papers have the student name and some name the tribe that the student is from. There are hundreds of documents in these folders. -2 folders with numerous color photographs of students at Intermountain School. The folders contain letters written by students petitioning to keep the Intermountain Inter-Tribal School open and not to close it down as had been proposed. These are interesting letters. Each of these folders has a couple of dozen color photos of students at the school.