Federal Boarding School Initiative Vol 2 and Iowa

Iowa School Profiles

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West Branch Industrial School

This is a link to the blog post describing the ceremony held in West Branch, Iowa, July 22, 2024, related to the burial of Grace Yellowhair, who died of disease while attending the West Branch Industrial School (West Branch Indian Training School in the table above). The photos below are from that ceremony.

Religions of Federal Indian Boarding Schools (FIBS)

Data collected represents all known religious affiliations identified at FIBS.
Individual religions will not add up to totals as many schools contained multiple religious affiliations. Data is as of January 1, 2024.
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Total FIBS with a Religious Affiliation: 210
Catholic Total 77
Benedictine 1
Catholic 63
Catholic Bureau of Indian Missions 4
Grey Nuns 1
Jesuit 10
Order of Saint Benedict 4
Roman Catholic 5
Sisters of Charity 1
Sisters of Divine Providence 2
Sisters of Loretto 1
Sisters of Mercy 2
Sisters of Providence 2
Sisters of St. Ann 1
Sisters of St. Francis 2
Sisters of St. Joseph 3
Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus 1
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary 1
Sisters of the Sacred Heart 1
Society of Jesuits 1
Society of Jesus 2
Ursuline Order of Nuns 2
Other Total 5
Christian 1
Independent, Nonsectarian Missionary 2
Unitarian 1
United Brethren in Christ 1
Protestant Total 132
American Baptist Home Mission Society 1
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) 20
American Missionary Association 3
Baptist 6
Baptist General Convention 3
Baptist Mission Society of Kentucky 1
Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church 4
Christian Reformed Church 2
Congregational Church 5
Cumberland Missionary Board 1
Dutch Reformed Church 2
Episcopal 12
Evangelical Lutheran 1
Lutheran 1
Mennonite 3
Methodist 15
Methodist Episcopal 4
Moravian 2
Norwegian Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1
Presbyterian 31
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions 7
Presbyterian Mission Board 5
Protestant 1
Protestant American Board of Missions 1
Protestant Episcopal 3
Quaker 13
Reformed Church 1
Religious Society of Friends 8
Society for Propagating the Gospel 1
Southern Baptist Convention 2
Synod of South Carolina and Georgia 1
United Methodist Episcopal Church 2
Women’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church 1
Women’s Home Missionary Society 1