Sherman Indian Museum

The Sherman Indian Museum houses traditional Native American collections and preserves the history of the Sherman Indian High School.

Sherman Indian High School was derived from the Perris Indian School which was the first off reservation Indian Boarding School in the state of California...The Sherman Museum is housed in the Sherman Indian High School's administration building, the current school's only original architecture. The small, one-story Spanish style building still stands as it did 100 years ago, although the rest...

History:In 1890, Mr. Horatio N. Rust was instructed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to find a suitable site in Southern California for an Indian school. In 1892 the first Indian school in Southern California was located in Perris, Ca. The student population was primarily from California Indian tribes, but there were eight Pima students in attendance.In 1897 Superintendent Harwood Hall...