Phillips, Luke
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Studio portrait of Cyrus Windy (standing), Samuel Townsend (seated at left), and Luke Phillips (seated at right), all wearing school uniforms.
Page one opened with a piece titled “The Future of the Red Indian,” reprinted from the London Spectator. This interesting article begins with the author describing the activities of the Carlisle Indian School for a British audience before then discussing his reaction to seeing...
Cemetery information and mortuary documents related to Luke Phillips, a member of the Nez Perce Nation.
Student information cards of Luke Phillips, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, who entered the school on February 20, 1880 and died on January 10, 1888. Phillips was buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.
![Seven male students [version 1], c.1886](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73413.jpg?itok=FVmq9rnZ "Seven male students [version 1], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Luke Phillips, Howard Logan, Frank Lock, Samuel Townsend, Roland Fish, Henry Kendall, and Richard Davis. All are wearing school uniforms.
![Seven male students [version 2], c.1886](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/BS-CH-032_front%20smaller.jpg?itok=4ajIwX2B "Seven male students [version 2], c.1886")
Studio portrait of Luke Phillips, Howard Logan, Frank Lock, Samuel Townsend, Roland Fish, Henry Kendall, and Richard Davis. All are wearing school uniforms.
![Teacher Mary Hyde and Indian School choir [version 1], 1884](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73388.jpg?itok=m9vIyxVv "Teacher Mary Hyde and Indian School choir [version 1], 1884")
Studio portrait of instructor Mary Hyde and the Indian School choir, including male and female students in school uniforms.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society assigns a date of April 30, 1884 to their copy of this image. They also identified several students by comparison with...
![Teacher Mary Hyde and Indian School choir [version 2], 1884](http://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_061b.jpg?itok=Ch2tgwk8 "Teacher Mary Hyde and Indian School choir [version 2], 1884")
Studio portrait of instructor Mary Hyde and the Indian School choir, including male and female students in school uniforms.
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society assigns a date of April 30, 1884 to this image. They also identified several students by comparison with other images...
The first page opened with a poem, "How To Be Happy" followed by a reprint of a letter to the school from J. H. Seger of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency dated Jan 4, 1888 that mentioned several students who returned to the Agency. Page two gave a humorous offering by Nellie Carey (Apache) from...
Page One had extracts from an address of Hon. B.G. Northrop Ex. Sec. State Board of Education of Connecticut. Page two had “Items of Interest From the Late Sioux Commission”, as well as a short piece on “What our Pupils in the Country Say.”
Page three had short vignettes on various Local...
Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students to be returned to their homes at the end of their enrollment terms. Pratt notes that many of these students have expressed a desire to remain and notes that Agents should attempt to secure permission from their parents for their children to remain...
Lewellyn E. Woodin, U.S. Indian Agent for the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Agency, provides the answers of the parents whose children's terms are set to expire regarding extending their terms at Carlisle.
Lewellyn E. Woodin, U.S. Indian Agent for the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Agency, requests that Luke Phillips a student at the Carlisle Indian be sent home immediately to serve as an interpreter for the Agency.
Luke Phillips, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, requests to be sent home along with the Nez Perce students. Richard Henry Pratt forwards the request and notes that he has argued with Phillips to stay but believes it might be best to return him.
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew regarding an editorial Pratt authored. Pratt also discusses staffing changes at Carlisle, and a student who he wishes Agnew to accept into his hospital. This letter is part of a series of related correspondence which can...
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior, with information about two Nez Perce students, Luke Phillips and Samuel Johns, who became ill during their second term of enrollment. Pratt notes that he believes in many cases it is better to retain...
