Brown, William

Student file of William Brown, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and ultimately departed on July 6, 1888. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards and a report after leaving. The file indicates Brown was living in Allen, South…

Student information card of William Brown, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and departed on July 6, 1888. The file indicates Brown was married and living in Allen, South Dakota in 1913.

Note: Brown married fellow student Lizzie Dubray.

Student information card of Lizzie Dubray, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 14, 1883 and departed on July 6, 1888.

Note: Dubray married fellow student William Brown.

Student file of Laura Browndog, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 11, 1901 and departed on June 27, 1906. The file contains correspondence, a returned student survey, a former student response postcard, a student information card, and a report after leaving indicating she was a housewife in Cherry Creek, South…

Student file of Margaret Jane Brown, a member of the Alaskan (Tlingit) nation, who entered the school on October 24, 1903, graduated in 1915, and ultimately departed on July 18, 1917. The file includes an application for enrollment, correspondence, a student information card, a progress/conduct card, outing records, outing evaluations,…

Student information card of Margaret Jane Brown (here Maggie Brown), a member of an Alaskan Nation, who entered the school on October 24, 1903 and ultimately departed on July 18, 1917. The information card indicates that Brown had graduated in 1915, married Edward Ridley, and was living in Ketchikan, Alaska in 1918. 

Student file of Lucy Cummings, a member of the Pawnee Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1906, and departed on December 5, 1906. The file contains a student information card, a former student response postcard, an application for enrollment, and a report after leaving indicating Cummings was a housewife living in San Antonio, Texas in…

Student file of Anna King, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on September 8, 1910, and departed on June 1, 1915. The file contains student information cards, an application for enrollment, physical records, outing evaluations, a position record card, financial transactions, a conduct card, a passenger railroad map,…

The first page opened with a poem, “Good Advice,” followed by a fictional account of a conversation titled “Two Carlisle Boys at Pine Ridge Talk Over the Sioux Bill,” in which two former students, Zack and Tim, discuss the merits of signing the Severalty Act which had been presented to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. It concluded on the fourth…

Studio portrait of William Brown and Katie White Bird, both probably wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Harvey Warner (standing at left) and William Brown (seated at right). 

Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date November 1887.

Studio portrait of William Brown, Phillips Bob Tail (also known as Phillip White), and Jacob White Eyes. Brown and Bob Tail are both wearing school uniforms.

Note: Jacob White Eyes was not a student at Carlisle. According to the January 6, 1888 issue of The Indian Helper, White Eyes was visiting Carlisle from the…

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of 80 students to return to their homes due to expiration of their terms and sickness. Pratt also details the travel arrangements for travel to the various agencies and locations. He also notes that 68 pupils whose terms have expired have elected to remain at the school.

Student William Brown writes to the Office of Indian Affairs asking permission to return to his home on the Pine Ridge Agency in the early spring in order to prepare his farm. Brown also notes that he is engaged to another student from Pine Ridge who attended Carlisle and is ready to start supporting his family. Brown ends by requesting if the…

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of the Indian Affairs of the 60 students who are entitled to return to their home at the end of the school term due to the expiration of their enrollment or sickness.

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 61 individuals discharged from the Carlisle Indian School and transferred back to their homes in the San Carlos, Laguna, Wallace, Isleta, Quapaw, Eufaula, Omaha, Winnebago, Nez Perce, Crow, Kiowa and Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Ponca, Rosebud, and Pine…

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a copy of a letter from George LeRoy Brown, Acting U.S. Indian Agent for the Pine Ridge Agency, to the Office of Indian Affairs. In Brown's letter he provides an update and a character assessment on former Carlisle Indian School students he has met.

Correspondence and reports related to students attending the Carlisle Indian School and Lincoln Institute from the White Earth Agency eligible to receive an annuity from the Agency.