Boarding school workroom at St. Benedict's Mission, White Earth, Minnesota

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Boarding school workroom at St. Benedict's Mission, White Earth, Minnesota

1895?

St. Benedict's Mission, White Earth Indian Reservation (White Earth Band of Ojibwe). Students pose with their handiwork in the work room of the newly-built school at St. Benedict's Mission. Domestic arts were considered important. So before and after school hours, the girls were taught to card wool and spin yarn with which they knitted their own stockings. They were taught plain and fancy sewing and took turns in assisting the sisters in the kitchen, laundry and dairy. Under Sister Philomena Ketten's supervision, the boys worked in the garden and helped on the farm with picking potatoes and raking hay. [SBMA, McDonald, p. 241]

Indians of North America

Native American education

Ojibwa Indians

Education

Indian reservations

White Earth Indian reservation

Minnesota Digital Library

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