Seneca, Nancy

Student file of Nellie Robertson, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 6, 1880, graduated in 1890, and ultimately departed on July 2, 1896. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a photograph, news clippings, a report after leaving, a…

Student file of Edwin Schanandore, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on November 7, 1885, graduated in 1889, and departed on July 16, 1892. The file contains returned student surveys, a news clipping, photographs, student information cards, a report after leaving, and letters/correspondence. The file indicates Schanandore…

Student file of Nancy Seneca, a member of the Seneca Nation, who entered the school on October 10, 1892, graduated in 1897, and departed on May 25, 1900. The file contains student information cards, returned student surveys, a former student response postcard, and a report after leaving. The file indicates Seneca attended the Medico Chirurgical…

Student information card of Nancy Seneca, a member of the Seneca Nation, who entered the school on October 10, 1892, graduated in 1897, and departed on May 25, 1900. The file indicates Seneca had studied nursing and was living in Rapid City, South Dakota in 1913 and Pawnee, Oklahoma in 1914.

Studio portrait of Nancy Seneca.

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. 

Studio portrait of Nancy Seneca.

Richard Henry Pratt responds to a request from Betsy White for the return of her grandson Ely S. Parker from the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that he has made an inspection of the kitchen and dining room and interviewed students and found no complaints among the students. He also provides the weight of the students from the Seneca Nation…

Mary M. Kennedy provides Thomas J. Morgan two letters regarding claims made by students at Carlisle regarding their punishment over complaints that they are not receiving enough food to eat. She further states that Richard Henry Pratt punishes students when he hears they have written home complaining and to not show the letters to him.

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Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Nancy Seneca is a member of the Seneca Nation of New York and so is entitled to any funds related to that Nation. 

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.