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First group of female students [version 2], 1879

First group of female students [version 2], 1879

Group portrait of the first female students, who came from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux Reservations on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left. 

Photographer: 
John N. Choate, Carlisle, PA
Format: 
Stereograph
People: 
Black Crow, Emma
Black Crow, Horace
American Horse, Maggie
Kills Plenty, Ida
Brave Bull, Dora
Black Twin, Nellie
Long Wolf, Hattie
White Cow, Agnes
Good Voice, Julia
Glode, Lizzie
Iron on the Head, Mary
Blue Teeth, Hope
Swift Bear, Maud
Spotted Tail, Pollock
Tackett, Sarah
Tackett, Charles
Big Star, Rebecca
Big Head, Ruth
McKenzie, Zonie
Long Face, Rose
Shooting Cat, Nancie
Bridgeman, Lulu
Lone Bear, Alice
Pawnee, Winnie
Chasing Hawk, Stella
Day, Lucy
Agnes
White Cow
Mather, Sarah
Nation: 
Sioux
Time Period: 
1870-1879
Repository: 
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Location: 
CIS-P-0037
Related Images: 
First group of female students [version 1], 1879
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