Letter Authorizing Transferring Two Boys from Green Bay Agency to Hampton Institute

Date
October 14, 1879

Letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra E. Hayt to Indian Agent E. Stephens at Green Bay Agency authorizing him to recruit two Menominee boys from Keshena to go to Hampton Institute, payment for which had already been sent along to Mrs. W. Wheeler from General Armstrong. Hayt also suggests that he might meet up with Indian Agent Charles Crissey in Chicago, as he will be taking "a company of Sioux children" to Carlisle. 

 

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Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG75, Entry 96, Medical and Educational, Volume 6A, page 218
Hand-written letter on onion-skin paper