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Photograph, 1936
Photograph, 1936

Recruiting through parents begins; manual labour abolished

1931
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Police and Indian Agents were no longer permitted to recruit students for the school. Recruitment was instead done by school staff going into communities and coercing parents to send their children to the school. School attendance remained mandatory. Manual labour for the students was abolished and a system of training, including both vocational and elementary instruction, was established.

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