Conroy, Frank

Student file of Edgar Fire Thunder, a member of the Sioux nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and ultimately departed the school on October 21, 1884. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains a student information card, a letter, a trade position/record card, and a report after…

Student file of Frank Conroy, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and ultimately departed on July 29, 1890. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, letters/correspondence, and a report after leaving.…

Student information card of Frank Conroy (here Frank Conray), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and departed on July 29, 1890. The file indicates Conray was living in La Creek, South Dakota in 1913.

Student file of Victoria Standing Bear, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and departed on June 22, 1886. The file contains a former student response postcard, a student information card, and a report after leaving indicating Bear was a housewife in LaCreek, South Dakota in 1910.

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Student information card of Victoria Standing Bear, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and departed on June 22, 1886. The file indicates Bear married Frank Conroy and was living Lacreek, South Dakota in 1913.

Note: This student was also known as Victoria S. Bear.

Student file of Henry Horse Looking (Calls Relatives), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 14, 1883, and ultimately departed on June 7, 1897. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, former student response postcards, letters/…

Student file of Harry Conroy, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on December 9, 1910, and ultimately departed on September 10, 1913. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains a student information card, applications for enrollment, trade/position record cards, a progress/…

Student information card of Harry Conroy, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on December 9, 1910 and departed on September 10, 1913. The file indicates Conroy was living in LaCreek, South Dakota in 1913.

The first page opened with a query titled "Who is that Man-on-the-band-stand?” followed by E.G.’s poem, “The Man-on-the-band-stand.” Next came a new installment of the series titled “How An Indian Girl Might Tell Her Own Story if She Had the Chance: Founded on Actual Observations of the Man-on-the-band-stand’s Chief Clerk” (continued from the…

Studio portrait of Frank Conroy in school uniform. 

A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: F. Conroy.

Studio portrait of Frank Conroy and Charles Redmore. Both are wearing uniforms and one is holding a rawhide rattle.

Studio portrait of Joseph Schweigman and Frank Conroy, both wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Frank Conroy.

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.

These materials include a descriptive statement of students regarding 15 individuals sent to the Carlisle Indian School from the Pine Ridge Agency of the Dakota Territory.

Note: Some people listed here were re-enrolling at Carlisle (having left and come back) while others (such as Mary Sitting Bear) did not enroll at this time, but…

Richard Henry Pratt provides a report to the Office of Indian Affairs on Frank Conroy upon his application for a position as a blacksmith in the Indian Service.

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.