Porter, Libbie

Student information card of Libbie Porter, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on March 11, 1881 and departed on September 18, 1883.

Student information card of Libbie Porter, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on March 11, 1881 and departed on September 18, 1883.

The first page had a story told to Joshua Given (Kiowa) by his grandparents about a young girl who never touched the ground and one day chased a star into the sky. It also included a letter from Louis Big Horse (Osage) to his father in which he discussed planting fruit. Page two had an article titled “What Indians Must Have” by paper editor…

Portrait of nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds. They are wearing the clothing they arrived in. The caption says they are Northern Arapaho who arrived in March 1881.

Other versions of this image identify them as two Shoshone and thirteen Northern Arapaho students who…

Portrait of nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds. They are wearing the clothing they arrived in. The caption says they are Northern Arapahoes who arrived in March 1881. 

Other versions of this image identify them as two Shoshone and thirteen Northern Arapaho students…

Studio portrait of two female students. Previous cataloging by the National Anthropological Archives identified the names Mollie and Lili [?] in the handwritten caption. The handwritten caption in the Princeton version of the image identifies them as "Mollie & Libbie, Arapahoe." They are probably Arapaho students Mollie Naalta and Libbie…

Studio portrait of two female students, identified in the caption as "Mollie & Libbie, Arapahoe" in the handwritten caption. They are probably Arapaho students Mollie Naalta and Libbie Porter. 

Carlisle School physician O. G. Given provides a report on the health of some of the remaining Northern Arapaho students at Carlisle and recommends returning four boys to their homes. Richard Henry Pratt endorses this recommendation and asks for authority to cover the expense for returning the students to their homes.

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to return a number of students to their homes due to ill health in addition to the students who are being returned due to the expiration of their terms.

Correspondence regarding statements made by Rev. John Roberts, missionary at the Shoshone Agency, regarding mortality of students from that reservation. Also included is a list of all students from the Agency sent to various schools including the Carlisle Indian School.