Lapwai Idaho Nez Perce Indian Girls School 1909 Real Photo Postcard

Lapwai Idaho Nez Perce Indian Girls School 1909 Real Photo Postcard
This image depicts a group of Indigenous children, likely students, with two non-Indigenous adult women who appear to be staff or teachers, positioned in front of a simple wooden schoolhouse. Postcards featuring such groups were common from the early 20th century, during a period when federally or religiously operated boarding schools for Native American children were widespread across the United States and Canada.
Real Photo PostcardRPPCNative American ChildrenIndigenous Girls SchoolBoarding School StudentsEarly 20th CenturyGroup Portrait WomenHistorical EducationUniformed StudentsSocial History AmericanaBows in HairSchoolhouse Building
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