You will need to determine:

• The time frame in which the nationally significant events associated with this property occurred (this is called the period of significance)

• The historic name of the property

• Which components of the site are considered contributing resources to the property and which components are considered non-contributing resources to the property

• The boundaries of the property based on the period of national significance and those resources which contribute to that national significance

The following pages will explain each of these points in greater detail.

photograph by miracc via Flickr Haskell Institute, KS: Founded in 1884, this was one of the first large off-reservation boarding schools for Indian students established by the Federal Government. It served students from the southern Plains and upper Midwest; in 1993, it became Haskell Indian Nations University. Due to the number of modern buildings on campus, the NHL consists of 12 structures and buildings, scattered throughout Haskell Indian Nations University.