The "County" category would not apply as these were fully Federal Schools only for Indian Children. The local governments and even the states had little or no say, or oversight into these schools, purely under Federal control and enforcement guidelines. Add to this the children within the schools weren't even originally living in the states where the schools were located that many of them were sent to- making finding these children and their connected families, much harder for those who maybe looking at a child in genealogy, and trying to figure out.."who are they, who are their parents, etc". The ones that survived, graduated, educated- may have started lives of their own off the Reservations, had families, descendants, etc...The genealogist comes along, going backwards in time- links to one of these ppl, and poof...now they are at a brickwall, because the person shows up in a census as white or indian or metis, or halfbreed, and many times with no other info about who their parents were. So placing the schools under a state catagory -just for location purposes would most likely help, because there maybe a chance that many of these kids began their new adult lives within the areas near the schools they graduated from. Most genealogist that I know will start by searching their area where they are found on a census doc, then spread out from there..So if the Schools are listed under the states But as ie: "US/Pennslyv_Carlisle Indian Boarding Residential & Industrial School" or Pennslyvania_Carlisle Indian Boarding Residential & Industrial School, or for ones prior to State being Created listed as "US_Indian Territory_Boarding Schools" may be needed, this would at least show the Schools that were within those expansive areas for immediate research.