Red Kettle, Henry

Student information card of Henry Red Kettle, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on February 19, 1891, graduated in 1897, and departed on July 2, 1897.

Student information card of Henry Red Kettle, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on February 19, 1891, graduated in 1897, and departed on July 2, 1897.

In school documentation Henry Red Kettle's name is also spelled Henry Redkettle and Henry R. Kettle. He is also known as Buck Red Kettle.

Studio portrait of William Crazy Bull (seated in center), Henry Red Kettle, and Shield Thunder Bull. All are wearing school uniforms.

Note: The identification of Henry Red Kettle and Shield Thunder Bull is tentative. 

Studio portrait of Henry Red Kettle wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Henry Red Kettle wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Henry Red Kettle and George Bacon.

Studio portrait of tweleve female and fourteen male students. 

The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF ’97. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

Samuel Gruett, Chippewa. Rob’t. Depoe, Siletz. Clarence Whitethunder, Sioux. Edw. Rogers, Chippewa. Brigman Cornelius, Oneida. Mary Miller, Chippewa. Frank…

Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image. 

This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01. 

These materials include two descriptive statements of students regarding 9 girls and 8 boys sent to the Carlisle Indian School from the Pine Ridge Agency.

The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a list of the Graduating Class of 1897 of the Carlisle Indian School to W. N. Hailmann along with his assessment of their character and efficiency.