West, Frank

Student information cards of Frank West, a member of the Pawnee Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882 and ultimately departed on July 27, 1890.

In school documentation Frank West is also known as Ah-lu-sah-lar-le-lo.

Student file of Lucy West, a member of the Pawnee Nation, who entered the school on October 10, 1912, graduated in 1917, and departed on May 29, 1917. The file contains a student information card, an application for enrollment, a physical record, financial transactions, correspondence, an outing record, an outing evaluation, a former student…

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Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 9).

Studio portrait of Frank West wearing school uniform.

The caption reads: Frank West 3

Studio portrait captioned as "Pawnee Indian group that entered the Carlisle Indian School in 1882." If that is accurate, then the sitters include: Louis Bayhylle, Frank West, Chalkley Stafford, Abram Platt, Thomas Kester, Bruce Hayman, Henry Eagle Chief, Minnie Topa, and Nellie Aspenall. Those are the nine students from the Pawnee nation who…

Studio portrait of five male students and four female students.

They are, back row, left to right: Frank West, George Summers, Percy Zadoka, Warden Cleaver; front row, left to right: Annie Thomas, Minnie Yellow Bear, Pollock Spotted Tail, Hattie Longwolf, and Harriet Mary Elder. 

Studio portrait of nine students. Back row, left to right: Frank West, George Summers, Percy Zadoka, Warden Cleaver; front row, left to right: Annie Thomas, Minnie Yellow Bear, Pollock Spotted Tail, Hattie Longwolf, and Harriet Mary Elder. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-004, 10-B-17…

Studio portrait of Frank West. 

Studio portrait of Frank West. 

Studio portrait of Stacy Matlock (seated left), William Morgan (seated right), Frank West (seated center), and Wilkie Sharp, all wearing school uniforms.

Five members of the Pawnee Nation--Frank West, William Morgan, Stacy Morgan, Wilkie Sharpe, and Robert Mathews--request that their annuity money and lease money be sent to them or to Richard Henry Pratt to be in trust. They refer to a letter written a year prior to William J. Morgan informing him that as he was not yet of age that he could not…

Richard Henry Pratt replies to an Office of Indian Affairs letter informing the Office that all of the students inquiring about their annuity payment are members of the Pawnee Nation.

Also included is a letter from four students asking the Commissioner of Indian Affairs about their prior inquiry into receiving their annuity money.

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter by providing the Indian names of four members of the Pawnee Nation who are seeking their annuity money while students at the Carlisle Indian School.