Date
January 2, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt responds to the visiting Sioux delegation claims of thirty to seventy per cent death rate of returned students dying within four years. Pratt writes that Carlisle has returned 101 students to the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Agencies and 82 are living today.
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National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG 75, Entry 91, box 583, 1890-#205
