Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School (Montana)

Fort Shaw Industrial Indian Boarding School opened in 1891. It closed in 1910, due to declining enrollment.

In 1904, it had a famous girls' basketball team that won the World Championship at the World's Fair in Chicago.

Some of the existing records of the school are at the Rocky Mountain Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration in Denver. The records in that collection include:


 * Registers of pupils, 1892-1910
 * Sanitary Reports, 1894-1899
 * Roster of employees, 1891-1910