Taawayite, Henry Pratt

Student file of Henry Pratt Taawayite, a member of the Comanche Nation, who entered the school on September 1, 1880, and departed on May 9, 1881.  The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating that Taawayite was working as a police officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and lived in…

Student information card of Henry Pratt Taawayite, a member of the Comanche Nation, who entered the school on September 1, 1880 and departed on May 9, 1881.

Page one opened with a poem by E.G.P. and the story of the Great Turtle, which was based on the arrival of a Spanish Ship. There was also a piece on the trouble that Billy Cornipachio faced, which included the opposition of his people to his education. Page two had a piece about visiting chiefs and on three former prisoners from Fort Marion in…

Studio portrait of Henry P. Taawayite. 

Studio portrait of Henry P. Taawayite.

Richard Henry Pratt writes to seek authority to pay to send home three former prisoners who remained east for their education. The sponsor of Paul Zotom and David Oakerhater had them trained in agriculture as well as being ordained as deacons in the Episcopal Church while studying in Paris Hill, New York and is now proposing to build chapels at…