Schoolhouse at Truxton Canyon Training School
Arizona, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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- Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗
- ReferencearchINFORM↗
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Built in 1903 by the Office of Indian Affairs in Arizona, this Colonial Revival schoolhouse served Hualapai children and other indigenous groups—including Apache, Havasupai, Hopi, Navajo, Tohono O'odham, Pima, and Yavapai—until 1937. The building was expanded in 1929 in keeping with its original architectural style. Its design embodied the federal assimilation policy of the era: the deliberately foreign Euroamerican aesthetic was intended to separate students from their families and cultures while providing vocational training. Now owned by the Hualapai Indian Nation, the schoolhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as a significant artifact of both Indian education and federal Indian Affairs architecture.
Movement
- Type
- school building
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Arizona, United States
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